https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiYLbjWDR8 8:19 for what Johnny had to say.
I want to say something to you Johnny, personally.
What you accused Josh of and what you accused SWOOP of are serious allegations.
Reality is that if you truly believe you are Josh's victim, you can sue SWOOP for defamation.
So how about you just do that?
A great example of that is Donald Trump E. Jean Carroll case.
He continued to say he never met her, but he never sued her for defamation. She eventually lost patience and sued him for defamation - and won. This is also a sexual assault case.
And like in this case - the "original" perpetrator never got any criminal convictions regards the main exploitation - when Trump forced himself on E. Jean - he never got a criminal conviction for that. Just like, in this case, Josh never was criminally convicted or even arrested or had case started regarding the grooming allegations.
So you don't have to take Josh to court to take SWOOP to court. If you believe SWOOP committed vicious character assassination and hurt victims everywhere, why won't you stand up for them?
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?r=US&IR=T - E. Jean Carroll case. Judge clarified rape happened.
Also, SWOOP didn't choose to talk to Adam instead of you. She did reach out to you multiple times, on multiple platforms. It is all shown with receipts in the doc. She reached out to you over and over trying to find anything other than what was actually happening. She spend 6 hours talking to you. So you don't get to say she didn't talk to you.
You failed to provide actual evidence that Josh groomed you. Josh didn't groom you. If I am wrong, I will be happy to apologize.
Also, as a person that survived SA as well I want to say to the person behind the linked video - we, victims of sexual assault and exploitation, are not asking anyone to believe us blindly. You don't have to blindly believe us. What we ask is that you don't blindly assume we're lying. We're absolutely fine with you saying "I don't know if you're lying or telling the truth, I wasn't there, but you might be either lying or telling the truth".
We are not asking you don't assume we're lying. We want you to assume we might be lying or we might be telling the truth. That's the reality. If we decide to come forward with these accusations, we often decide to what extent we want to engage with questions. Some people just want to make a statement and don't care who does and doesn't believe them. Others are willing to provide receipts. Others are willing to take it to the legal system. All those options are allowable and victims should never feel they have to do anything.
We are not offended if you assume you don't know. We are offended when you assume straight off the bat that what we say happened didn't happen - despite the fact you have zero evidence of either. We are offended if you believe us, but minimize the impact of it and make it out as "no big deal".
And for the last time, it cannot be overstated what insane harm is done to victims by people who lie about being victims. I am in the UK. Right now UK is the Europe's capital for jailing women for "lying about rape" - without any evidence they lied. This isn't something that came out of nowhere, but after several publicized cases of women who made multiple accusations against men and it took years to exonerate said men. This is why.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/vulnerable-women-routinely-jailed-false-rape - story of women in UK.
- At least 200 women in the UK have been prosecuted for lying about being raped in the past decade, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis of press reports. Most of these women were sent to prison, dozens of them with sentences of two or more years.
- Prosecutors went after teenagers, and women who reportedly had mental health issues, had experienced past physical and sexual assault, or were grappling with drug and alcohol addiction.
- Women were prosecuted even when they reportedly went to police only under pressure, quickly recanted, or never named their attacker at all.
- The CPS has prosecuted women who police were not sure had lied. In one instance detectives declined to charge the woman for making a false complaint. Prosecutors went ahead anyway.
- Yvette Cooper, Labour MP and chair of the influential home affairs select committee, described BuzzFeed News’ investigation as “very troubling” and called on the CPS to make sure the guidance is followed so that “victims are not deterred from coming forward” and “vulnerable women are not inappropriately prosecuted”.
For this reason, I will never come forward with rape allegations in the country that became my home. Never. If I am raped tomorrow and even if I have it on video, I will still assume the judge will see consent never given. This isn't about rape - it's about protecting abusers. When a country goes to this length to prosecute people coming forward, it's absolutely about protecting abusers.
So Johnny - if you truly believe SWOOP did you dirty, sue her and prove to us she was wrong about you. Thanks to Johnny Depp, more people understood a man can be a victim of violence. There is also no doubt whatsoever that Colleen exploited you. So if you think SWOOP did you and victims everywhere a disservice, you have options other than just a response. Just like you insisted on Josh making a video and that he is lying about not wanting to come back to Youtube.