10h 54min, may 29, 2016 y - EXCLUSIVE: Amber Heard was MARRIED to Tasya Van Ree

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FROM THE DAILY MAIL:New documents have revealed Amber Heard previously considered herself married to her former partner Tasya Van Ree, before she ever tied the knot with Johnny Depp, who she has now filed for divorce from.

While gay marriage was not legal at the time, former couple did everything that would make them as legally close to married as possible, according to The Mirror.

The newspaper reports it has seen legal documents that show the two women viewed themselves as a married couple even if on paper the word was not available to them eight years ago.

The now 30-year-old actress went as far as changing her last name to match her photographer love's name.

On March in 2008 in California, the star legally changed her name to Amber Van Ree and stated the reason to do so as they were in a 'domestic partnership'.

Three months later, California started issuing marriage licences to gay couples but that was halted later that year, with gay marriage not legal in California again until 2013 and across the US until 2015.

A source told the Mirror that the couple went on to have a private ceremony in 2011 in New York, when same-sex marriage was legalized there but did not make it legally official.

The couple asked the special few who attended the wedding to keep the wedding a secret, the source said.

Amber, The Mirror reports, did not need to divorce her partner because of their legal status but did petition to change her name back in 2013 and it was granted the following year three months after she and Johnny got engaged.

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