Cara Delevingne just confirmed she and Amber Heard were once an item, breaking her silence on the nature of their relationship on the Louis Theroux Podcast on Monday. And for a decade-plus, the internet was WAITING for this one.
The supermodel didn’t dance around it either. When asked about the romance, Delevingne explained that “we were close for a long time” and that they became “entangled” when Heard and ex-husband Johnny Depp “were going through the divorce”. She added the key detail that broke the whole thing open: all three of the stars worked together on the movie London Fields, which was filmed in 2013, shown at film festivals in 2015, and not released in theaters until 2018. Translation: Depp was watching it happen in real time.
Here’s where it gets real. According to Cara, Depp was “pretty driven crazy by jealousy”. But she clarified the timeline: “Nothing was happening at that point. Later, after they divorced, it had, I suppose.” So they weren’t physically involved while Depp was still married to Heard—but once he was out, all bets were off. That’s the distinction Cara made, and honestly, it reframes the entire Depp-Heard-Delevingne triangle that blew up the internet a decade ago.
Heard and Delevingne were friends as far back as 2014, but their bond sparked romance chatter in 2016, with the pair frequently spotted out and about that summer. Back in 2016, on the day that Amber’s divorce settlement from Johnny was announced publicly, she was spotted spending a night out in London with Cara and friend Margot Robbie. The optics? Depp clearly felt the sting.
But here’s the thing that makes this moment bigger than just celebrity gossip: Cara was opening up on the same podcast about her own sexuality. Last month, Delevingne revealed to the Call Her Daddy podcast that “sleeping with friends” helped her understand her sexuality. She’s been public about being a lesbian and had just declared “I’m a lesbian and my weakness used to be straight women” at a Rosalía concert earlier this year. So this confession to Louis Theroux wasn’t random—it was part of a larger reckoning with her own identity and past relationships.
Heard 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. During that trial, Johnny Depp shared during the defamation trial that he blamed the English model for breaking up their marriage. Delevingne wasn’t just a name in the Depp-Heard saga—she was central to Depp’s narrative about infidelity and jealousy.
The wild part? This was the first time Delevingne actually gave her account of what went down. For years, the pair frequently spotted out and about that summer but she stayed quiet. Through the trial, the memes, the TikToks—silent. Now, ten years later, she’s using her podcast moment to set the record straight, and it’s way more nuanced than the tabloid shorthand ever was.
The 16BARS take: Cara finally speaking breaks a decade of mystery, but her real statement is bigger—she’s claiming her queerness and her past relationships without apology, while calling out how male jealousy and shame once made her silent about who she was. That’s the real tea.
