From some of the articles I've read where so-called "friends" of theirs have leaked stuff, I keep reading that Amber is actually extremely intelligent and well-read, but that she's also rebellious, has a dark side and is very edgy.  All things that I think Johnny would find very attractive and exciting.  And all things that Vanessa wasn't, so that makes it all the more attractive to him because he's getting someone who's so opposite of the woman he'd been with for 14 years.  When a man comes out of a long-term relationship and he looks for a younger woman, he's not looking for someone who reminds him of his ex.  He's looking for excitement and that sense of adventure and youth again.

I remember years ago in an interview Vanessa did, she was asked whether she reads, because Johnny was known to be such a devoted reader, and her response was that she never reads, and that she thought reading was something you could do when you get old and retire.  So, obviously she and Johnny were at polar opposites on that.  Johnny loves having people that he can sit and discuss things with for hours, especially books and poetry and literature, and Vanessa wasn't that person.  Apparently Amber is. 

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