Amber Heard gives a wave Monday in Tokyo at the event "Aquaman". (Photo: Jun Sato, WireImage)

While recalling her own difficult experience with her family, Amber Heard conveyed a powerful message to those who feared to do the same: "Attitudes and hearts can change."

Speaking Saturday in front of a south-south panel titled "Making Change on Screen", Heard explained that it was difficult to tell her religious parents that she was bisexual.

"I'm from Austin, Texas. My father is "out of the central casting" texan, "she said in a recording posted on the site official website of SXSW. "Big barrel hat, mustache on the handlebars, love his weapons, good man of the South, and I was raised in a religious home Naturally, I am frank, militant, feminist, lesbian, atheist, vegetarian … I am remember telling them about my relationship, that I was in love with this woman … I remember at first that it was just tears, it was tears. "

She continued, "They did not know how to treat it because we did not build the necessary infrastructure for acceptance and tolerance. For them, he was thrown into a binary system of treatment: negative or positive. "

She heard the dated photographer Tasya van Ree for about four years starting in 2008 and released in public two years later after Ellen DeGeneres asked her about her sexuality. She said she feels she has "a unique responsibility" to tell her truth.

"I just answered honestly, I could tell by looking on that person's face that it was a big problem," Heard remembers in 2017. "My poor publicist, then I realized the seriousness of what I had done and why so many people – studio execs, agents, counselors – I did not want it to come before my name I got attached to a label I never saw myself by the person with whom I am. "

Although the initial reaction was not what she had hoped for, Heard said that she had maintained discussions about her positive sexuality and five years later, she and her girlfriend van Ree were actively participating in life. from his family.

"I was getting a prize and I asked my parents to go to Dallas … And I look up and see them sitting in front of my center, my father with his cowboy hat, and that's it that I get this award "gay", she said. "I was doing a speech and I had written something." I looked at them and said, "It's all there, I do not need it." of speech, that's the speech right away. "My parents, in five years, are watching the trip"

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