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You Lie: 4-23-22

Apr 20, 202334 min
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A classic FIB episode from 4-23-22.

Amber Heard will come away as THE face of toxic femininity when this case against Johnny Depp is through.

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From workhouse connect in AJ Benzer fame, He'd like to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. He's the guy put the cock in the Peacock Network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody AJ Benzi here with fame? Is it? Bitch? This is Saturday. It's April twenty third, twenty twenty two, and I'm doing a show on the weekend because frankly, when I got sick on Friday, I felt bad. I

felt bad that I didn't go there with two shows to you guys. And I don't know what's going on. I hate to say this, but call me a conspiracy theorist whatever you want. But ever since I got the vaccination and the booster, I feel like I've gone through different ailments with my stomach. I don't know what. I don't know what's going on, but I've never been this sick as well. Let's say I'm sick as often I've been sick lately. It bothers me, and it really bothers me when it coincide

with not being able to give you guys a show. I apologize. It's Saturday. There's some landscapers out behind the fucking hotel. They're also on top of the roof putting. I guess a new roof on. It's one of those crazy weekends. But by the grace of God, here I go.

I want to give you a show because I feel like I owe you one, and we'll be back on schedule Monday, doing the typical five shows a week, etc. But listen, let me wait until this goddamn landscape or leaves because, believe it or not, it's illegal to have a gas powered leaf blower on your back in Los Angeles, but no one cares about the law here, motherfucker. Hold on Jesus Christ. Sorry, I can't take that. It's absolutely illegal to have these gas powered, gas powered leaf blowers

on your back. But that's all you see in Los Angeles. You know every time I go out, you know I have pretty much the shaved head. I have a little hair coming back now. But you'd be shocked when I come back. I take a towel, I put water on my head, and I wipe my head with a towel and it comes back dirty. That's how much shit is being blown around the air. Look at here he is again, this fucking idiot. I gotta talk to him. This is ridiculous. I gotta say you something. Hold on, hold on, are

we fucking done yet? Are you done? Are you done yet? This is not even legal, a gas powered fucking law. It's not even llegal. Bro, No, it's not legal. You can't have gas powered on your fucking back. It's not legal. And I'll put the fucking blowing. Man, I think you want to make it show him do fuck me? Sorry, that's real life shit. Man. He was sorry with his goddamn straw hat. But right is right? Any Look, I wanted to talk to you today. You could tell I'm in a bed and I'm in a

bad mood. But I'm in a good mood. But I gotta tell you I feel bad that I just shelled it the guy. I always feel bad after our yellow people. I gotta go back and give him five bucks. This is the way I get ready fire aim school of speaking to people. I'm guilty of that. I'll take care of him. Don't worry about it. Um. I want to talk to you about the Johnny Depp trial. This is what this whole show is going to be about. I said some things a couple of days ago about it. I felt a certain way.

And now as we're you know, in this thing for a week, it's become apparent to me that there are things that are being broadcast and there are people saying certain things about the man on trial that simply aren't true. I was a journalist during the O. J. Simpson trial. I've never seen anything like this before or since. But this Amber versus Johnny trial is getting

so crazy. Obviously, nobody died, all right, so you know, mentioning that it's close to the O. J. Simpson trial seems trivial, But it has all the odd glamor and all the for lack of a better word, juiciness that attracts people to watch. And I gotta tell you, I've never gotten so many emails and texts and direct messages from people in the know. This is a story that I myself have gone down endless rabbit holes

to get toward the truth. And by the way, if you want to see if you want to see what this woman does on Instagram, you need to follow the Instagram page called house Inhabit. Oh my god, Oh my god, is she on top of this thing. It's amazing. But I've got to tell you, and there are people who disagree with me. Yeah, I saw him slamming fucking kitchen cabinets. I saw him poor the big glass of wine and say, do you want to see crazy? This is crazy. I've been that guy, But so far, I've seen no evidence

of physical violence, taught Amber Heard from Johnny Depth. All they show is someone who had a problem with drinking. Obviously, doing drugs isn't good, and writing text messages that weren't nice. But that's not the same as somebody physically abusing someone physically abusing. You can say on a text, I want to kill so and so, but unless you try and do, and it doesn't make you guilty in a court of law, in the court of public opinion, and might made people turn their cheek and say, oh my god,

he's awful. You know, I'm never gonna tell you I was abused. I was never physically abused, but I've experienced emotional abuse absolutely, and Amber Heard does not I'm across as a victim at all. Her actions are definitely not sitting well with me. They're not. Also, his past relationships have never had any claims with spousal abuse. I'm finding it very hard to believe this is the first time Johnny Depp was a woman, abuse would give

me a goddamn break. Now, I will tell you this, and it's not something I'm proud of, But I had a girlfriend who at some point I didn't want to stay at the house anymore. I wanted to leave and go out and meet my friends. And it was the tale end of our relationship. And I just was like, I gotta go, and I knew it was gonna be hard to leave, and she made it almost impossible for me to leave. I mean, in fact, she told me, if you leave, I'm gonna slam my eye on this doorknob and tell the cops

you punched me. And I said, why would you do that? Why would you try to ruin my life? Because I just want to leave. I don't want to be here anymore. This is over twenty years ago, but this is the kind of shit that exists. This happens to men. I know men' smack women around. We've all heard about male toxicity blah blah blah, but it exists on the female level as well. Toxic masculinely is one thing. Toxic femininity is another thing. We saw it with Jada Pinkett

Smith. We've seen it with her. There are many other women I can bring into light with this, but enter Amber Heard. She is the newest latest face that you can put on toxic femininity. Amber Heard's actions are definitely not sitting well with me. They're they're not I can see through people who are full of shit. Johnny comes across as the victim of domestic abuse and

all the mental health consequences that causes it. He's a man, and there's nowhere for abused men to go. Really, you may be able to do it if you're a single, if you're if you're a married man in Indiana and no one's looking at you, but try doing it when you're a big Hollywood star and your wife is a big Hollywood star. No one's gonna believe it. She's a frail, little blonde. He called her slim. That was his nickname for her. He's big, bad Johnny Depth. Not that

he's big, not that he's a physically violent person. But you look at his movies, like Donnie Brascow in Black Mask. He could currently come across his violin. So there are people who are waiting with bated breath to call him violent, but he's not. He's a gentle guy. But there really is nowhere for men to go when they feel abused. And basically, I've been in that position, not physically abused, but emotionally abused. And you have women saying things to you, egging you on, goading you into,

trying to make you the monster you don't want to be. It's a terrible position to be in. What are you gonna do? Go to a fucking doctor, You're gonna go to a psychologist. What can you do? There's not a lot of avenues for a man to go down. There's just not. No one wants to believe a multi millionaire superstar actor is abused by a little slim amber Heard and I love that he changed the initials on his fingers from slim to scum. Amber Heard has literally admitted to physically harming him on

tape. I didn't beat you, I hit you. I didn't punch you out, I hit you. You know, be a man, Johnny. I don't know where you come from. But a man can't hear that kind of talk without popping off. Yeah, if he parted himself a big fucking wine, and if he threw a couple of kitchen cabinets across the So be it a man. I can't hear a woman say I didn't punch you, Johnny, I hit you. There's a difference. Be a man. Yeah.

A lot of you are saying, well, just walk away. I know it sounds so simple, just walk away, But there's a lot of strings attached. Man. But she admitted to physically harming him on tape, and then she attempted to gaslight him again, all recorded and played for the courtroom. And if he did another Pirates movie, which he said he wouldn't, it would break all records with the public favor that this has won him. I don't care what you think, but I suddenly tomorrow it was announced

that Johnny Depp's doing the next Pirates of the Caribbean installment. The ticket sales would be insane. Now, he might not win this suit. I think he will, but let's leave room for doubt. He might not win this suit, but he's proven that she was the worst of the two and had literally no business writing that op ed for The Washington Post. I read the article a while back, with people saying how his need for revenge is out of control and he's only hurting himself, not to mention, costing himself in

more ways than one. Look at man, I think both of them has serious emotional problems. She exaggerated whether she believes that or not as debatable, and he downplayed it. They obviously had a toxic relationship and they brought out the worst in each other, to say the least, that happens in relationships. And now he's using the legal system to further abuse her, but in

a legal way. It's the only means he has left. The guy knows that people want to believe him, so he's getting up there and playing his part. People like him more than her, and maybe he knows, maybe he knows that he maybe can't win the case, but he will win in the court of public opinion. You can scroll through Facebook and Instagram and I'll be proven right. When he enters the courtroom, women swoon. Even the men look at each other when Johnny walks in the fucking room. They don't

do that for amberhard. And if you think that doesn't make a difference in a court case, you're completely wrong, completely wrong. I watched John Gotti walk into court a couple of times. I know the jury was pay off, but man, oh man, that the people in that courtroom fucking swoon. Little did I know back then that Sammy the Bull Gravano was paying off

jurors to get john off the case. But people swooned. When people see Johnny Depp helping women out of the limousine or the truck that's taken them to the courtroom, they love it. They can't believe this man is on trial for being physically abusive. All that matters, guys, It all matters. People love to say that. You know, it's very manipulative and abusive that men in the real world to do this all the time. No one wants to believe that handsome, nice guys are capable of violent things. Listen,

I know they are. But if you can't see that this sweet, young, pretty blonde with beautiful hair is a complete lying bitch, I don't know what to tell you. The proof is in the tapes, but riddle me this am I the only one who suspects him actually miss her. You know, when someone's attracted to something so nasty that they know it's their downfall, but they must have it. If Johnny has been and he's been on record saying this an abuser of alcohol and pills, that's the same thing as wanting

to be with a woman you know is no good for you. He knows the opioid roxy coadum is no good for him. It may feel good in the moment, but over time it's no good for him. Cocaine is no good for him, tobacco, alcohol, whatever you want to say, is no good for him. Neither his amber heart. She's one of the things that are toxic to him that he misses. Johnny didn't want this to go to court. He begged her, I'm giving you an out. You don't want to do this, but she kept at it, and he felt he

had to do what he had to do. And if I can't have you, I will destroy you way. I got that feeling. And I wonder if they'll get an offer for a goddamn reality show or an intensive marriage he had but doctor Phil or doctor Drew or every doctor combined. Of course they won't do it. But believe me, those things are lined up. Johnny has him look great lately. He hasn't. He cleaned himself up in court. I'm glad he put the ponytail him when he went up on stand to

talk, because you look like hell with the hand just hanging there. He really did, and she's dressing like someone from the fucking Handmaid's Tale, and it's not working, especially when she's obviously taking his zat next before each court day. Sometimes I think the screen is frozen on her, only to find out, Oh, no, she's frozen. She's just not She's frozen. She's on Zanlex. Johnny's not coming to court high Amber heard is. Trust

me. I usually enjoy scrolling through Facebook and Instagram for the videos and stuff, but I have to stop over the week, and I had to lay off. I have so many friends on my own feed reposting trial footage and ranting about Johnny's innocence. It's insane. It's celebrity worship at the most bizarre level. And there are people, especially women, who want so badly to

believe that these handsome male actors are the characters they play on screen. They so desperately want to believe that these romanticized versions of their good guy ideal is real that they sometimes ignore heart and clear evidence to the contrary. Now, I think Johnny's innocent, but I'm just telling you what some people believe.

You may say, as some of my male friends do and some of them are in the journalism business that absolutely nothing can excuse those text messages Johnny sent about wanting Amber dead and referencing, you know, having sex with their dead corpse. I gotta tell you someone, I'm guilty of texting similar things with like minded friends. Never do we mean what we say, but we say

it just the same. My relationship with my girlfriend began where she read a text or an email I wrote to somebody that was just completely just me being insane and stupid and irreverently funny with somebody I know who can take the joke. But when you read it and you're not, you know, on it, it sounds disgusting and looks insane. Took me weeks to battle that. I'm still battling it out. I know it doesn't make any sense, but I've had friends who say the most horrible things on emails, and we know

we don't mean it. We just say it for entertaining ourselves. It's a way to use humor to diffuse the pain we feel. Now. Do I believe men can be victim of abuse? Of course I do do. I believe the continuation and retaliation of abuse with abuse is justified I don't know. I'm not in Johnny depp shoes, but I'll tell you right now, I don't give a shit what you think. But the studios will be lining up with parts for Johnny Depp because this listen, this lawsuit is so misguided.

There are some details I haven't really pinned down and paid really a lot of attention to. So forgive me if I'm wrong, But these lawsuits can't be won. Sometimes, regardless of fault or who initiated watt, who go to whom only to film them, they were both messy, intoxicated, violent, volatile messes of people. You listen to those tapes and you get sick. You want to turn them off, but you can't. It's like hearing your

next door neighbors just threatening to kill each other. Some people say Johnny should have let the slide, but here we are, and in a lot of ways, he is imitating his idol, Marlon Brando, not only in what he says and acts, but actually how he looks. Let's say, for arguments sake, Amber started fights to watch fireworks go off and then film it for leverage. If the relationship ended and Johnny still went nuts, I see

his point. Some people say there's no winning in this situation. The best outcome would be to minimize the damage, to walk away, to know when to fold them. He's going scorched earth. But I believe and I know that she instigated these dramas, and I don't think he should have walked away sooner. I don't. I think sometimes you gotta fight for what's right. Do I think he has mental health issues, not particularly, but she certainly

licked the match to the alcohol soaked red that he's become. People say, well, walk away, That's easier said than done. Guys, if someone's mentally ill, or if someone has issues like Johnny has, but he's just not violent, He's non physical when it comes to these things. I don't know how you can't see that. Yes, I think he should have put this in the rearview mirror and try to get away from it. But maybe

he's compulsive and couldn't let it go. It's very sad either way. And by the way, you can start the countdown between the Paul Bettany and Jennifer colony and divorce, because after hearing those text messages publicly, it's not gonna last much longer. There's gonna be some issues in that relationship, but I feel like if I were to judge in any of these cases, I would rule that, look, you're both hot ass messes, and I'd call it a fucking day. I wish they could. I wish they'd go, look

enough enough, you're both full of shit, you're both crazy. No one's getting fifty million or one hundred million. Let's just call it a day and go home. Both of you stop talking to each other. I wished that were the case. Johnny's got these ardent defenders who are never gonna believe he's anything but a saint on earth, and Amber is always going to be that messy bitch who led him astray and made him out to be a meaning and

unfortunately that's going to be part of his legacy going forward. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle, as it always is, but some people just can't wrap their mind around the fact that both of them can be both toxic to each other. This is proof that only love can hurt like this. Johnny Depp has been up there, understand raw and very vulnerable, and many

people take that his weakness or his guilt, but I don't. I read the stories and the newspapers and the websites about how he's no longer employable, how he droned on for hours and ruined any chance he's ever working again. Bullshit. It makes me laugh. If you haven't learned that Hollywood loves a comeback story, you're not paying a mention to anything. There's so many names mentioned in connection to Johnny and Amberger. Hollywood is literally licking its chops to

get him in the room and talk about a movie again. You're crazy. If all the world loves a car crash and everybody is explaining his performance in the courtroom as a car crash, what do you think's gonna happen? The whole world is going to slow down and watch the fucking movie, just as he watched the car crash. We've all driven by car crashes. We can't explain why it happens. And after we leave the car crash, we all

say, what is everybody looking at? Why don't anybody slow down? What we're looking at is something we hope to see, and that is surviving the car crash. Johnny Depp has been so good at making us fall in love with all the characters he's played from Edward scissor Hands to Gilbert Grape to Jack Sparrow, and on and on. And if you think for a second America is not ready for another heaping spoonful of Johnny Depp on screen, you're crazy.

Matter of fact, there's never been a time when he's been more hot than right now. How could any of you not see this trial and not visibly see proof that Amber Heard is a gaslighting, crazy bitch. I don't know. Maybe none of you have been in dysfunctional, awful relationships, but I have, and I know those texts, and I hear those phone calls, and boy, oh boy, I'd been on the other end of those

things. You have no idea when a woman is antagonizing you and begging you to blow up and begging you to become the monster you don't want to be. And then Johnny Depp did become that monster. He did use drunks to cope with their bullshit. But there's no way you can tie an angry text message along with physically abusing her, especially when the makeup she claimed she used

wasn't even around back then. It came to light in twenty seventeen. I don't know if you read those stories but the makeup she claimed to always use on her bruises wasn't even around. The makeup company came out and said, listen, we weren't around during this abusive stage, alleged abusive stage, so we don't want to get involved in this. She's full of shit, guys, if you can't see that's what she wanted to do to him. I

don't know what to tell you. You've lived a charmed life. You've never been down those lovely hole ways of relationships where women can become the devil in a second. But you look at him on truck. Can you imagine having to expose your own trauma in front of the whole world and then be judged by the performance in which you do it, as if it's a movie role. I think people who do this are sick and demented, and they don't

understand the nature of being traumatized, especially by a woman you love. I find it gross that people think what he's doing is boring up there on the stand. I'm sorry, but recounting my trauma is boring to you. I'm sorry. This is not meant to be a Hollywood performance. He's in the trial of his life, his testimony is not meant to be exciting and riveting

because the trial is not for your entertainment. And the media is the biggest culprit because for years they painted amber Heard as a victim without really examining the facts. Are you shocked by that? And now they don't know what to do with an emotional man sitting on the stand speaking about his trauma. America

is not ready for that. America has not seen that before. And it's easier to just act like he's bullshitting than to counter the truth, because then they've got to retract everything they ever said and wrote, and you know, the media never does that. And I gotta tell you something, My heart hurt for him when he was trying to explain the Winona Forever tattoo, which amber Heard hated, and he changed it to Wino Forever after they broke up.

I don't know he did what he had to do. I don't know how you've lived your lives, but there comes a point when humor has to intersect and come to the rescue of your pain. And you're lucky if you've never had to do that. It's not an easy thing to do, to make fun of your pain. But if you want to survive with that pain, you need to bring humor into it. And that's all Wino Forever is all right. The guy likes wine. Obviously he's allowed to like wine.

It's not illegal to like wine. But again, this has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with allegedly physically abusing her. And for Christ's sake, again, you can tell by the way she's dressing and what she's trying to portray herself as I mean, not using mass Scarratt doesn't make her look at this and it just makes her look tired. And I know someone is on Zanix and she clearly is on Zanis in that courtroom every

day. Meanwhile, Johnny's bright out and bush tailed when you see him. Understand, I think the whole Hollywood images are stripped away. So he's less the Hollywood icon we all know and love, and more a man just trying to redeem his name. You've got to think of him like that. Finally, I got this letter from a long time publicist who's a listener and a patron, and I find it very illuminating. Stacy Benasco has been at this game a long time, and she's a patron and a listener, and I

wanted to include this letter she sent me. She said, since Johnny Depp is being dragged through the mud again with the new trial, I wanted to share my Johnny Depp story and how much of a gentleman he is. The New York City premier of his film Chuck a Lot was on December fourth at

the Paris Theater. It was brutally cold and the red carpet arrival's line was outside, so we had a huge group of media, including photographers, cruise and print reporters waiting to get a photo and a sound bite from Johnny Depp. There were also several fans waiting by the carpet to catch a glimpse of him. I was there that day. I know all about this movie. Johnny's reps were trying to rush him past the press and into the theater.

They needed to start the film, and everyone was waiting on him. I was handling media on the red carpet and my assignment was to get the shots for our freezing call photographers. And since this film was a Mirror Max production, the stress level was high. Johnny wouldn't let his reps win, and he sweetly told me that he will definitely take photos and make sure we get the shots of him. He then took a few minutes spoke to fans and

made it clear that they were important to him. I remember he said something to the reps along the lines of Hey, these people have been waiting in the cold and wanted to say hi. He was a complete and absolute dream to work with for those minutes. Everyone who came into contact with him felt

the same way. I worked with tons of celebrities since I started my PR career in nineteen ninety eight and have so many celebrity horror stories, but this brief interaction stays with me because of the way Johnny treated everyone, from a lowly junior publicist to the photographers on the carpet. He was one percent class. He could have done like many other celebs and passed by the carpet and

fans in the freezing cold. Jennifer Lopez was at the premiere didn't even want to walk the carpet because she was too cold, but Johnny Dead didn't and in turn, he made my job so much easier by allowing me to get the shots and the photos needed if we didn't deliver the huge amount of post premiere press that Harvey Weinstein expected, we would have hell to pay. Needless to say, the premiere was covered everywhere. In Johnny's photos were the ones

used. I would love to see him make a deserved comeback, and I loved that letter Stacy, thank you. I would too, and I think we will see to come back. I only met Johnny once, although we have so many things in common from me dating Whenona Ryder years ago, and there's a lot of strange things that we have in common, even to the extent not to sound like I asked all that for a minute or two,

we looked pretty much alike. We had a very similar look. A matter of fact, there was a picture up in my bedroom of myself that my friend Adolpho Galella took, the great photographer, and I took it. I had him take it when I just broke up with a girlfriend. I wanted to always remember her anger I was in this picture and I had it framed and put in my room. And one night Whenona was in my room, and the first thing she ever said to me while she waited for me in

my room was remind me so much of Johnny in this photo. I'll sound like an asshole. If I go further, I'll sound like a narcissistic idiot. But the point is this, him and I have a lot in common. And I only met him once, and we sat and talked at a birthday party thrown for him and a joint called Metronome in New York City, And I'll share that story on tomorrow's Patreon, but I can tell you he was one of the most gentle and sweet celebrities I ever met. He didn't

care that I was a gossip columnist. He made sure there was room for me at that table, even poured me a drink that we both sipped from. He only cared that I was there with Mickey Rourke, and he said to me, and he friended, Mickey's a friend of mine, and matter what you do, he asked about my family, my girlfriend, my job, my life, like he was actually interested. And when I left, I said to myself, Jesus Christ, Johnny Depp just interviewed you. You

didn't ask him anything. But he politely and a deptly turned the tables on me in the sweetest way possible. But I'm very good at first impressions, and I could tell what I left him that I was sitting with a sweet gentle man. And yeah, I know there are two signs to every man. But as sure as I can say, I have been miscast and not judged properly by people who don't truly know me. This is what I feel about him too. Then and now, Johnny Depp will win this case.

He will win because he comes across as a man who has been tormented and angered and hurt by a mean, plotting, gas lighting woman. She picked on a gentle soul, but she's not gonna like the way this jury and the public opinion comes back at her heart. Zamber Hurd's career that's going to be damaged going forward, not Johnny Depp's. You mock my words. You want to hear more, go to my Patreon show. I got plenty more to say. In the meantime, I'm aj Benzo. That was Famous a

Bitch for Saturday, April twenty third, twenty twenty two. Talk to ys later, Thank you for listening. Fame as a Bitch is an aj Benza Workhouse Connect production featuring the endless wisdom, insightful commentary, and sometimes fucked up perspective of aj Benza executive producer Mike Agavino,

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