Things had broken down in their relationship to a point where Depp was going to file for divorce. She did not want him to dump her and was hysterical about it. So she decided to get ahead of the curve and filed against him plus make the histrionic DV claim. Her smear campaign against him was motivated by hurt. She was her that he "timed out" on her weird personality and was going to leave the marriage. Sadly her smear campaign put her... in a lotta trouble