As an actor myself, I’m sick and tired of the accusation that great actors are great liars. It’s absolute nonsense. A writer creates a character and the actor’s job is to bring truth about the human condition to the audience through that character. The profession doesn’t “make you a good liar” in the context of your personal relationships.

In my personal experience, when someone is in an abusive relationship, they walk on eggshells around the abuser. They don’t provoke, or do anything that could set the abuser off, like surreptitiously recording them. In the trial, they showed Johnny’s reaction to being secretly recorded on Amber’s phone. He was pissed, but he didn’t attack her. A textbook abuser would have slapped, punched, or put her in the hospital.

Did he behave like Mr. Rogers every day of his life? Of course not. Do any of us?

She stayed in this toxic relationship because of money, prestige, and access to acting roles. She never staged an intervention. She didn’t respect his desire to detox without her. She didn’t stop using herself to make it easier for him. She was caught out in lie after lie. I have zero sympathy.