Delevingne is framing this as a candid, vulnerable conversation about her past—owning her truth while acknowledging the messy timelines. She's positioning herself as someone who simply connected with another person during a chaotic period, nothing more sinister.
Sources say Depp was absolutely fixated on this rumored connection back in 2016. The "London Fields" set was apparently tense AF because of it. And Delevingne name-dropping Musk? That's not an accident—she's making sure everyone knows Heard had options.
"He was pretty driven crazy by jealousy," Delevingne said verbatim on the Louis Theroux Podcast (June 29, 2026). She also confirmed: "We were close for a long time, and then when they were going through the divorce, yeah, we were entangled." Heard split from Depp in 2016 after marrying him in 2015.
Delevingne just handed the internet exactly what it's been craving—confirmation wrapped in casual confession. The fact that she casually dropped Musk's name alongside her own relationship history tells you everything about how she wants this narrative to land.
Cara Delevingne just set the gossip mill on fire, and she's doing it with a smile. In a new episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast—season seven, dropping Monday in the U.S.—the British model-turned-actress did not hold back when Theroux brought up "the Johnny Depp thing." You know, that persistent rumor that's swirled around Hollywood for nearly a decade: that Delevingne was entangled with Amber Heard while the actress was divorcing her then-husband Johnny Depp.
Well, guess what? Cara confirmed it. All of it.
Theroux got right to it, telling Delevingne that Depp was reportedly "driven crazy by the idea that Amber might be sleeping with you." Her response? "Am I meant to comment? It's because we did a movie together, and it was called London Fields.
He was also doing the movie. I think he was pretty driven crazy by jealousy. Nothing was happening at that point.
Later, after they divorced, it had, I suppose." Let that sink in. "Later, after they divorced, it had" is Cara Delevingne's way of casually admitting, yes, she and Amber Heard were indeed an item once Depp and Heard's marriage officially ended. Theroux pressed for clarity, asking what exactly that means, and Delevingne elaborated: "We were close for a long time, and then when they were going through the divorce, yeah, we were entangled." But wait—there's more.
When Theroux noted that Heard was "also entangled with other people," specifically mentioning Elon Musk, Delevingne didn't miss a beat: "There you go." That two-word confirmation is doing cartwheels across social media right now. The implication being clear: yeah, Amber had her hands full during all of this, and Cara was one of several someones in the mix. Heard dated Musk, the SpaceX founder and trillionaire, until early 2018—long after her 2016 split from Depp and their subsequent 2022 landmark defamation trial that essentially torpedoed her acting career.
She hasn't starred in a movie since. But Delevingne's podcast appearance wasn't just about dishing on old romantic entanglements. She also got candid about something far more disturbing: Harvey Weinstein.
The disgraced movie mogul apparently called her directly to question her sexuality and warn her against dating women if she wanted to succeed in Hollywood. "Harvey Weinstein called me up and said, 'Are you gay?' And I was like, 'Um, what do you mean?' And he was like, 'You should never be in a relationship with a woman… You'll never make it in the industry if people think you're gay,'" Delevingne recalled.
"And I really believed him, and I really took that to heart." As a lesbian who says she knew at age 11, this admission hits different—here's a young woman being actively sabotaged by one of the most powerful predators in entertainment history, her own self-doubt weaponized against her. Delevingne rose to fame as a Victoria's Secret supermodel before pivoting to acting with roles in Paper Towns, Suicide Squad, and American Horror Story.
She's currently starring in Jordan Firstman's upcoming Cannes breakout Club Kid. But on this particular episode of Theroux's podcast—guest list also includes Yorgos Lanthimos, Boris Becker, and Kyle MacLachlan—she chose transparency over image management. Whether that's refreshing honesty or strategic reputation rehab is probably both.
