Cara Delevingne and Amber Heard. Courtesy of Getty Cara Delevingne has opened up about her romantic relationship with Amber Heard in a new episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast.
Talking to the British broadcaster on the latest episode, which dropped Monday in the U.S., Theroux asks the model — who stars in Jordan Firstman’s upcoming Cannes breakout Club Kid — about “the Johnny Depp thing,” alluding to rumors that Delevingne was involved with Heard while the latter was divorcing the A-list actor.
Theroux says to Delevingne that Depp was reportedly “driven crazy by the idea that Amber might be sleeping with you,” to which she responds: “Am I meant to comment? It’s because we did a movie together, and it was called London Fields. He was also doing the movie. I think he was pretty driven crazy by jealousy. Nothing was happening at that point. Later, after they divorced, it had, I suppose.”
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Theroux then asks for clarity on what that means. Delevingne answers that she and Heard “were close for a long time, and then when they were going through the divorce, yeah, we were entangled. … But she was also entangled with other people.” When Theroux says, “Well, with Elon [Musk],” Delevingne replies: “There you go.”
Heard dated Musk, the trillionaire and Space X founder, until early 2018. She had split from Depp in 2016 after marrying the year before, and in 2022, the two went head-to-head in a landmark, highly publicized defamation trial. She has not starred in a movie since.
Delevingne and Theroux cover a broad range of topics across the episode, including her reticence about marriage after being engaged, as well as her taking comments from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein “to heart.”
“Harvey Weinstein called me up and said, ‘Are you gay?'” Delevingne recalls. “And I was like, ‘Um, what do you mean?’ And he was like, ‘You should never be in a relationship with a woman… You’ll never make it in the industry if people think you’re gay,'” she continues. “And I really believed him, and I really took that to heart.”
Delevingne, a lesbian, told Theroux about her sexuality: “Well, now I look back on it, it was super evident really young. I knew at, like, 11 years old. I had this one friend that I was like, ‘Oh, I think I care about her more than she likes me, and I don’t know how, but I do.’ It was obvious now, but then it really wasn’t, and I’m very proud of it now.”
“I think when I started talking about it and being open about it, I felt like there was a lot to fight for still at that point in terms of shows about gay people and people to look up to for younger kids.”
Delevingne rose to fame as a supermodel and Victoria’s Secret star before turning to acting with roles in Paper Towns, Suicide Squad and American Horror Story. She guest starred on season seven of The Louis Theroux Podcast, which The Hollywood Reporter reported on exclusively. Other celebrity guests this season include Yorgos Lanthimos, Boris Becker and Kyle MacLachlan.
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