Amber Heard remembers hearing about her parents and her tears

For Amber Heard, getting her parents to understand her sexuality was not easy.

On Saturday, the actress, who has since spoken about her sexuality, talked about when she talked to her parents about dating a woman during the SXSW Making Change on Screen Conference.

"I'm from Austin, Texas, my father has no more Texan cast, good Southern man, and I was raised in a religious home," she explained. on the panel, People. "And as a lesbian, atheist, declared vegetarian, I remember when I told them about my relationship, that I was in love with this woman and that at first, it was just tears. , tears."

Before her marriage with Johnny Depp, Heard dated Tasya van Ree for five years.

According to the actress, her parents "did not know how to treat him because, for them, he was thrown into a binary treatment system, negative or positive".

However, over time, the attitude of his parents has changed.

"Five years later, I received an award and asked my parents to go to Dallas," Heard recalls. "And I see them sitting in front and in the center and here I get this gay" award … My parents in five years, look at the trip. "

In his words, "attitudes and hearts can change".

The star, who had publicly debated her sexual orientation for the first time in 2010, had been questioned about her sexuality during an interview in 2017 with seduce. "I do not recognize anything," she told the magazine at the time after she was asked if she identified herself as bisexual. "I am a person, I love who I love," she told the magazine. "I was going out with a woman and people started taking pictures of us walking in our car after dinner. [was] Holding her hand, I realized that I had two options: I could let go of her and, when asked, I could say that my privacy was my private life. Or, I could not let go and possess it. "

Although she said she had never hidden her sexuality from family and friends, Heard also had to face the resistance of the industry when she went public.

"They showed no other romantic trail at work, no other actress," she said. seduce. "I did not go out, I never came in. It limited this LGBTQ thing, it was an umbrella for marginalized people who are denied rights, but loses effectiveness because of the nuanced nature of the LGBTQ. 39, humanity. "

the Aquaman The star continues: "As we become more educated and develop the facts of our nature, we continue to add letters, it was a tremendous shield, but we are now stuck behind. I do not care how many letters you add, at some point it will mean "WE ARE HUMAN".