Johnny Depp was already in serious decline

"Now that the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial is over, it’s time to get a grip on reality."

Amanda Heard didn't do it. Johnny Depp's sad decline started before she did anything.

From Roger Friedman's Showbiz411:

Maybe you’ve forgotten “The Lone Ranger,” a spectacular failure in which he played Tonto. How about “Mortdecai”? Or “Black Mass”? Surely you remember “Transcendence”? ($23 million total). Or “Richard Says Goodbye”? ($325K– not sure it was ever released.)

Even “Alice Through the Looking Glass” was a bust in this country– $77 million, although it did well abroad where English comprehension wasn’t an issue. Then there’s “London Fields,” the movie that brought him together with Heard. When it was finally released after many swipes at re-cutting, the film was seen by no one.

Depp has had four flops just since 2019 including the most recent, “Minimata,” which made $610K abroad, has no domestic box office. The others were worse.

As for the “Pirates” movies, they declined in box office successively over the years. The last one, in 2017, was a big hit internationally but made $172 million here....

He's too old. 58. James Stewart was ten years younger than Depp is now when Hitchcock blamed his aging appearance for the failure of Vertigo.

Art Carney and Lilly Tomlin at the same age Johnny Depp and Amanda Heard are now. (This is true.)