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19th December 2018
10:44am GMT
Heard wrote that she had been exposed to abuse from a young age, experiencing it as she grew up and when she attended college.
She said that she didn't speak up, and that she didn't see herself as a victim. She learned young that "men have the power."
"I knew certain things early on, without ever having to be told," she said.
"I knew that men have the power — physically, socially and financially — and that a lot of institutions support that arrangement. I knew this long before I had the words to articulate it (...)
"But I kept quiet — I did not expect filing complaints to bring justice."
Heard said that following her accusations against Depp, she was told by friends and colleagues that she would never work as an actor again.
She worried that she would be unable to keep her roles in the Justice League and Aquaman movies - the latter of which was recently released worldwide.
"I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse," she said.
You can read the full op-ed here.
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