Can We Please Stop Saying “My Truth”? It Doesn’t Change What Actually Happened
If you’ve watched reality TV or followed pretty much any mainstream celebrity drama where someone is clearly in the wrong over the past few years, you’re probably all too familiar with the expression “my truth.” No, not “the truth,” but “my truth.”
Truth is defined as the body of real things, events, and facts, also known as actuality, which is inherently objective. However, over the past few years I’ve noticed more and more people admitting that there is actual objective truth and then there is also their own subjective truth when using the expression “my truth.” Unfortunately, this has now become a widely accepted manipulation tactic in which someone can quite literally change the reality of a situation based on their own perception in order to avoid blame and even pin the blame on someone else. Case in point, we just witnessed this tactic in one of, if not the most high-profile celebrity defamation court case in history: Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp.