STAR TURNS TO FEMINIST, SEX WORKER
AMBER HEARD’S RACY GAL PAL REVEALED
MEET Amber Heard’s Aussie gal pal – Bellingen-born feminist, writer, sex worker, avid reader and kindred spirit Tilly Lawless.
The young women have become firm friends since Lawless came to Heard’s attention in 2015 when she spearheaded the #facesofprostitution movement.
A horse lover and member of the LGBTQIA community, Lawless became involved in #facesofprostitution after the Mamamia website published an article that painted female sex workers as victims who needed to be “saved”.
“My activism is not my life, it is one aspect of it and I find it is something that is a part of my life rather than who I am,” Lawless said at the time.
Lawless travelled to the Coast to spend the afternoon with Heard at Palazzo Versace in April last year after the actress appeared in Southport court with exJohnny Depp to plead guilty to a charge of providing a false document to Customs.
Lawless caught up with the Aquaman actress on the Coast again in April this year, joining Heard and her new beau, Elon Musk, for dinner at Moo Moo to celebrate Heard’s 31st birthday.
Lawless wrote about their bond in a post to Instagram featuring a picture of her and Heard at Moo Moo.
The picture was captioned: “Getting to know Amber – who I have admired for her openness about her sexuality, the fact that she was pretty much the only visible femme e woman to me as I was growwing up, her fortitude in the e face of great trauma & a media witch hunt, & for using g her platform to fight the goodd fight – has been life-affirmingg in so many ways, as it always s is when you meet a kindredd spirit. I am so grateful to have e earned the mutual trust & respect of so many people in my life; & though you all know who you are, I don’t acknowledge the importance of your friendships to me nearly enough. You are the longstanding & the all-knowing that endure through my romances. Thank you.”
The picture was reposted and shared on Heard fansites.
Lawless answered questions about her work last year when she appeared in an episode of ABC TV’s You Can’t Ask That featuring sex workers.
“The sex industry is one of the few places where women earn more than men. Until women are earning as much as men in every other industry, why wouldn’t we turn to this industry?”
GETTING TO KNOW AMBER ... HAS BEEN LIFE-AFFIRMING IN SO MANY WAYS, AS IT ALWAYS IS WHEN YOU MEET A KINDRED SPIRIT TILLY LAWLESS