Supermodel and actress Cara Delevingne has gone on the record about a romantic relationship with Amber Heard, telling a podcast interviewer that the two became involved after Heard's split from Johnny Depp, and that Depp "was pretty driven crazy by jealousy" even before the relationship began.
The disclosure came during an appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast, with the episode dropping in the United States on Monday. Delevingne's comments add another layer to a saga that already consumed a courtroom, dominated tabloid coverage for years, and effectively ended Heard's film career.
For anyone who followed the 2022 Depp-Heard defamation trial, none of this will land as a total shock. Rumors about Delevingne, Heard, and other figures circulated throughout the proceedings. But hearing it confirmed, casually, on a podcast, years later, raises a fair question about why these admissions keep surfacing long after they might have mattered in a legal setting.
Host Louis Theroux raised what he called "the Johnny Depp thing," referencing reports that Depp had been "driven crazy by the idea that Amber might be sleeping with" Delevingne. The model's response, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, was measured but unambiguous.
"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."
Delevingne went further, describing the relationship in terms that left little room for interpretation.
"We 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 interjected with "Well, with Elon," referring to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Delevingne replied simply: "There you go." Heard dated Musk until early 2018, roughly two years after her 2016 split from Depp.
The chronology Delevingne laid out deserves scrutiny. She insisted "nothing was happening" during the filming of London Fields, the movie that brought her, Heard, and Depp together. She placed the romantic involvement after the divorce, but also said the two "were close for a long time" before that.
Heard and Depp married in approximately 2015 and split in 2016. The defamation trial followed in 2022. Heard has not starred in a movie since.
Delevingne's phrasing, "when they were going through the divorce, yeah, we were entangled", does not draw a clean line between friendship and something more. It suggests overlap, or at least proximity, between the end of the Depp marriage and the start of whatever Delevingne and Heard shared. That ambiguity matters, because the entire Depp-Heard legal battle turned on competing narratives about who wronged whom and when.
The admission that Heard was simultaneously "entangled with other people", Musk among them, paints a picture of a post-divorce period that was chaotic at best. Whether any of this would have changed the outcome of the 2022 trial is unknowable. But it adds detail to a record that both sides spent millions trying to shape.
Delevingne also recounted an exchange with convicted movie mogul Harvey Weinstein that, she said, shaped her willingness to be open about her sexuality for years. The personal revelations that public figures choose to share on podcasts, from divorce timelines aired on air to confessions about past relationships, have become a genre of their own.
"Harvey Weinstein called me up and said, 'Are you gay?'... 'You should never be in a relationship with a woman... You'll never make it in the industry if people think you're gay.'"
Delevingne told Theroux she internalized the warning. "And I really believed him, and I really took that to heart," she said.
She described knowing she was attracted to women from a young age. "I knew at, like, 11 years old," she said, recalling a childhood friendship where she felt something she couldn't yet name. "It was obvious now, but then it really wasn't, and I'm very proud of it now."
What stands out here is not the content of Delevingne's admission, celebrity relationships are tabloid fuel, not policy, but the pattern it represents. The Depp-Heard saga consumed enormous public attention and legal resources. Both parties testified under oath. Witnesses were deposed. Reputations were shredded.
And now, years after the verdict, key details keep emerging in the most casual possible settings: podcast interviews, magazine profiles, social media posts. The courtroom, which is supposed to be the venue where facts are established under penalty of perjury, increasingly looks like just one stop on a longer media tour.
This is not unique to the Depp-Heard matter. Across public life, from Hollywood to government, the gap between what gets said under oath and what gets said on a microphone afterward keeps widening. When personal scandals involving public figures surface through informal channels long after formal proceedings have concluded, it erodes confidence in the institutions that were supposed to get to the bottom of things the first time around.
Several questions remain unanswered. Delevingne did not explain why she chose this moment to confirm the relationship publicly. She did not specify when the romantic involvement with Heard began or ended. She did not address whether she was ever contacted by legal teams during the defamation proceedings, or whether she provided any testimony or evidence.
She also did not identify the "other people" Heard was entangled with beyond Musk. Theroux did not press her on any of these points, at least not in the portions reported.
Delevingne is currently set to star in Jordan Firstman's upcoming film Club Kid, described as a Cannes breakout. The podcast appearance, whatever its personal motivations, arrives at a convenient moment for generating attention ahead of a film festival.
That does not make her statements untrue. It does mean they should be received with the same skepticism any reasonable person applies to a celebrity interview timed to a promotional cycle.
The people who paid the highest price in the Depp-Heard saga were not the celebrities involved. They were the ordinary people, jurors who gave weeks of their lives, domestic violence advocates whose cause was weaponized by both sides, and a public asked to sort truth from performance in a trial that often felt more like a reality show than a legal proceeding.
Delevingne's confirmation that she and Heard were romantically involved adds a footnote to that story. It does not rewrite it. But it does reinforce a familiar lesson: in Hollywood, the full truth has a way of arriving only after the cameras in the courtroom have been turned off and the podcast microphones have been turned on.
Accountability that only shows up on a press tour is not really accountability at all.