The last thing I wanted to do was write about the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard circus. Really. For months I’ve done everything humanly possible to avoid the social media cults, the TikTok clips and my mother – who was so enthralled by the case that she cancelled numerous plans so that she could watch the live trial, and was temporarily banned from Facebook for commenting that she would give Heard a slap if she ever came across her, which is probably unlikely.
But after the latest development in the story, which happened after the judge ruled that Heard was in fact defamatory towards Depp, awarding him around £12 million in damages, I couldn’t stay quiet any more. And neither could a number of celebrities. It seems that Hollywood is wondering if it rallied around the wrong guy.
Anyone that followed the case closely enough can see that however bad Heard’s behaviour was, Depp’s matched it
The irony is that it was Depp’s fans who crowdfunded the fees needed to get more than 6,000 pages of court documents unsealed.
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