The public legal entanglement between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has apparently inspired one woman to get a controversial tattoo of Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez.
Although jury deliberations remain ongoing by the time of this writing, the $50 million defamation lawsuit Depp has filed against Heard has brought scores of people out of the woodwork who are unflinching in their support of Depp and confident that he will prevail.
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And while this shift in the tide of public opinion has made an already-dramatic trial much more of a cultural phenomenon , one side-effect of Depp’s groundswell of support has been the elevation of his attorney Camille Vasquez into a celebrity in her own right.
Apparently impressed by the way she’s carried herself and by her defense of someone they feel is in the right, Depp’s fans have developed a passionate admiration for Vasquez.
And for one TikToker, that admiration has inspired a risky tattoo.
On May 26, a Canadian singer and songwriter named Jazzmyn Wollfe uploaded a TikTok in which she revealed that she tattooed herself with the likeness of Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez.
As Wollfe told Insider, she became inspired to do so after seeing Vasquez cross-examine Amber Heard and noting her confidence in doing so and her zealous advocacy for Depp.
In Wollfe’s words, “Honestly, my jaw dropped. I was so impressed and amazed by the confidence she maintained the whole time. How unapologetically she pursued justice and trying to shine light on the mistreatment of somebody she believed had been abused.”
With that in mind, Wollfe wanted her tattoo is serve as a symbol of strength in the face of abuse.
As we can see from her stencil, this led her not only to capture an outline of Vasquez’s likeness while she spoke into a courtroom microphone, but also to emphasize the word “objection” in the design.
All told, the tattoo took Wollfe about an hour to complete and saw her use a freehand needle to go over the design multiple times until the lines were dark and deep enough for her liking.
We can see here that she was quite pleased with the results, but the same couldn’t be said for some of her commenters.
Although the most recent comments on her video range from support of her inspiration to suggestions that it’s ill-advised to get a tattoo before the verdict comes in, Wollfe has reported that other comments carried far more serious assumptions.
As she put it, “Many people have made assumptions about my own personal beliefs. They said that I’m advocating for abuse, and that couldn’t be farther from true.”
For Wollfe, the tattoo has far more to do with the strength she saw in Vasquez than any fandom for Depp or distaste for Heard.
She expanded on that point further to Insider, saying, “I recently left an abusive relationship where I spent years suppressing my own voice and my own pain for the convenience of a narcissistic abuser. So, to see somebody fighting back against that in such an impressive manner, I really took inspiration from that moment.”
h/t: Insider
Last Updated on June 1, 2022 by Mason Joseph Zimmer
