

“I think there was something in the kiss in the shower that was real.”

“That moment, was, it was, it felt like something, it felt like something I should not be feeling,” Depp said, adding that they were both in relationships at the time. During his testimony in Fairfax, Depp described the first moment of connection he felt with Heard, as the two filmed a scene that called for their characters to kiss in the shower. The timeline of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s relationshipĭepp met Heard in 2009, on the set of The Rum Diary, where Heard played the love interest to Depp’s character. Though Heard didn’t mention Depp by name, the timeline she described in the piece matched up with the timeline of the couple’s divorce two years prior, in 2016. In the article, she discussed the public backlash she had received after she “became a public figure representing domestic abuse” in 2016, then advocated for more support for victims of domestic violence. In December 2018, Heard published a Washington Post op-ed with the headline “I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture’s wrath. What did Heard write in the Washington Post op-ed?
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Heard then filed a $100 million countersuit against Depp, claiming that he defamed her when his legal team referred to her claims as “fake” and a “sexual violence hoax.” Because Heard’s op-ed was published in the Washington Post, the trial is taking place in Fairfax, Va., where the newspaper is printed. defamation laws and pointing out that Heard was not a defendant in the case against The Sun. case, but a judge refused, citing differences in U.K. Heard’s lawyers tried to get Depp’s defamation lawsuit dismissed after he lost the U.K. The long-postponed trial comes after Depp lost a similar suit accusing News Group Newspapers, the U.K publisher of the tabloid, The Sun of libel in 2020.

Depp’s career was already on the rocks following the couple’s publicized breakup and the allegations of abuse that rocketed between them. Depp, who said he was dropped from his role in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise just days after the article was published, claims the article caused damage to his career. In the article, Heard discussed the treatment of women in sexual assault cases and referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” but did not mention Depp by name. Why is Johnny Depp suing Amber Heard?ĭepp brought a $50 million defamation suit against Heard in March 2019 after she published an op-ed in the Washington Post the previous December. As the trial enters its third week, here’s what we know so far.
