Cara Delevingne has opened up about her romantic relationship with Amber Heard in a brand new episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast.
Speaking to the British broadcaster on the most recent episode, which dropped Monday within the U.S., Theroux asks the mannequin — who stars in Jordan Firstman’s upcoming Cannes breakout Membership Child — about “the Johnny Depp factor,” alluding to rumors that Delevingne was concerned with Heard whereas the latter was divorcing the A-list actor.
Theroux says to Delevingne that Depp was reportedly “pushed loopy by the concept Amber could be sleeping with you,” to which she responds: “Am I meant to remark? It’s as a result of we did a film collectively, and it was referred to as London Fields. He was additionally doing the film. I believe he was fairly pushed loopy by jealousy. Nothing was occurring at that time. Later, after they divorced, it had, I suppose.”
Theroux then asks for readability on what which means. Delevingne solutions that she and Heard “have been shut for a very long time, after which once they have been going by way of the divorce, yeah, we have been entangled. … However she was additionally entangled with different folks.” When Theroux says, “Nicely, with Elon [Musk],” Delevingne replies: “There you go.”
Heard dated Musk, the trillionaire and Area X founder, till early 2018. She had cut up from Depp in 2016 after marrying the 12 months earlier than, and in 2022, the 2 went head-to-head in a landmark, extremely publicized defamation trial. She has not starred in a film since.
Delevingne and Theroux cowl a broad vary of matters throughout the episode, together with her reticence about marriage after being engaged, in addition to her taking feedback from disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein “to coronary heart.”
“Harvey Weinstein referred to as me up and stated, ‘Are you homosexual?’” Delevingne remembers. “And I used to be like, ‘Um, what do you imply?’ And he was like, ‘You must by no means be in a relationship with a girl… You’ll by no means make it within the trade if folks assume you’re homosexual,’” she continues. “And I actually believed him, and I actually took that to coronary heart.”
Delevingne, a lesbian, advised Theroux about her sexuality: “Nicely, now I look again on it, it was tremendous evident actually younger. I knew at, like, 11 years outdated. I had this one buddy that I used to be like, ‘Oh, I believe I care about her greater than she likes me, and I don’t know the way, however I do.’ It was apparent now, however then it actually wasn’t, and I’m very pleased with it now.”
“I believe once I began speaking about it and being open about it, I felt like there was so much to battle for nonetheless at that time by way of reveals about homosexual folks and folks to look as much as for youthful children.”
Delevingne rose to fame as a supermodel and Victoria’s Secret star earlier than turning to appearing with roles in Paper Cities, Suicide Squad and American Horror Story. She visitor starred on season seven of The Louis Theroux Podcast, which The Hollywood Reporter reported on solely. Different celeb friends this season embrace Yorgos Lanthimos, Boris Becker and Kyle MacLachlan.
