middle Johnny Depp And Amber HeardIn the libel trial, celebrities kept an eye on court proceedings – and weren’t afraid to give their opinions.
Drew Barrymore She made headlines after joking about legal drama during her talk show. “It’s, like, one layer of madness, it’s a seven-layered insanity dip. I know these two people’s lives are real and I know what your life looks like in public,” 50 of the first date, 47, said of the April livestream experience. “I understand all the sentiment, but they are actually giving this information.”
After receiving criticism on social media, the California native apologized to her followers for trying to add humor to the conversation.
“It came to my knowledge that I offended people by highlighting Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and for that, I just want to deeply apologize and appreciate everyone who spoke because this can be a teachable moment for me and how to move forward and how to handle myself,” Barrymore detailed in the clip. Video on Instagram in May. “I can be a more thoughtful and better person moving forward because all I want to do is be a good person and I deeply appreciate the depth of this and I will evolve and change from it, and I thank everyone for helping me develop the way and teach me.”
The trial of Depp, 58, and Heard was the result of the Oscar nominee’s prosecution of his ex-wife, 36, for defamation. The Kentucky native claims that Heard’s 2018 opinion piece about her past history with abuse cost him his Hollywood career.
The former couple’s relationship first became a topic of discussion one year after their marriage in 2014. The activist filed for divorce after 15 months of marriage and obtained a temporary restraining order against Depp after being accused of domestic violence. The Pirates of the Caribbean The star, for his part, denied the allegations.
After their divorce in 2016, Depp filed a defamation lawsuit against the UK newspaper the sun For referring to him as a “wife beater” in an article published in 2018. Two years later, the High Court of Justice ruled that the sunIt was not a libel article because Heard’s allegations were “largely true”.
Since then, the actor has addressed how to write a Heard essay Washington Post affected his future. “It’s been six years of hard times,” Depp said during his testimony in April. “It’s so weird when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, it’s going to be a 0.6 second Quasimodo. I didn’t deserve that, nor did my kids, nor the people who believed in me all these years. I didn’t want any of those people to think I got it wrong. I committed them or lied to them or that I was a fraud. I pride myself on being honest.”
The Aquaman The star, who has yet to take a stand, has mirrored her ups and downs with Depp before the legal trial. “I never called him, I wrote about the price women pay for speaking out against men in power,” she wrote on Instagram the same month. “I keep paying that price, but hopefully, when this case is over, I can move on as well as Johnny. I have always kept my love for Johnny and it brings me so much pain to live the details of our past lives together from the world.”
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