Amber Heard Talks Johnny Depp Romance

Amber Heard shares insight into love and life with Johnny Depp

Amber Heard is opening up about her personal life. Appearing in skin-baring lingerie on the cover of this month’s W Magazine, Heard is frank about her career, her high-profile love life and how she remains grounded.

“I haven’t noticed any change in my career,” she said, disregarding claims her romance with actor Johnny Depp has boosted her status in Hollywood.

But when it comes to their relationship out of the public eye, Heard remains “guarded,” choosing to speak more generally about how she’s handled relationships in the limelight.

“For better or worse, I’ve always had a love life that seemed particularly salacious to some people,” Heard, who is bisexual, said of her controversial romance with Depp, which she chose not to divulge in close detail as well as her four-year romance with female photographer Tasya van Ree.

“I’m not one to talk about my personal life as I prefer to keep that as private as possible.”

“There has been a lot of media attention surrounding my relationship. It’s been frustrating as I don’t label myself one way or another—I have had successful relationships with men and now a woman. I love who I love, it’s the person that matters,” Heard has said of past and present romantic relationships.

“I didn’t want to look like I was hiding anything. I’m not, and wasn’t ever, ashamed. I don’t imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.”

Despite the attention – positive and negative, Heard remains unfazed, insisting she is familiar with dealing with the public’s grievances, alluding to the controversy surrounding her relationship with Depp and van Rees. “Before, it was also seen as unconventional,” Heard said of the female romance.

Heard also divulged the lengths she will go to protect her private life from the tabloids, including sharing false stories with friends to see what gets leaked to the press, and no longer driving her beloved Mustang, which she built from scratch.

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Despite the fascination with her personal life, Heard insists she remains true to herself—she regularly rides her horse, Arrow, in Los Angeles and she is incredibly close with her family, namely her father.

“He taught me a lot about animals, about cars, and about resilience,” she says of her dad. “That’s what happens when your father doesn’t have a son. I drew the line at learning about football. I had to rebel somehow.”

The combination of Heard’s tough gal ‘tude and her gorgeous looks is part of what has made her appealing to so many—including Depp, who has previously called Amber “a southern bell” who is “sharp as a tack.”

“Whenever my old friends meet someone I’m involved with romantically, they immediately warn them: ‘She may look refined, but when she’s angry, she can go trailer park really fast,’ ” Heard jokes to the mag. “But I’d always rather be passionate than bland. I can’t imagine living a quiet life.”

Depp and Heard first met in 2011 on the set of The Rum Diaries before getting engaged in January of 2014. They are reportedly set to wed later this year on Depp’s private island in The Bahamas.

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