Offered as proof it’s not all bad: actress takes journalist for husband (9)
I believe the answer is:
evidenced
'offered' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'proof it's not all bad actress takes journalist for husband' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'proof' could be 'evidence' (I've seen this before) and 'evidence' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'd' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'as' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for evidenced that I've seen is " shown".)