Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast. Today, why the Johnny Depp verdict isn't just a celebrity scandal. It has implications

that are a lot more important and far-reaching beyond Hollywood.

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trial, the defamation trial against Amber Heard, but I watched pretty much all of it when

I missed a little bit of it. I went back and watched the replays. I became hooked

after watching the initial testimony by Johnny Depp, where he went into some detail about

his very troubled childhood. It was interesting to me because the description of his mother

is pretty much the description of my father. That's just sort of a personal aside. But

I knew that I had to watch for myself when I was watching a network that cut away from

Johnny Depp's testimony and we heard from a legal analyst who declared something like nobody

can relate to the story that Johnny Depp is telling. And here I was absolutely relating

to the story that Johnny Depp had just told. So at that point, I knew like many other

news events, I would have to watch for myself firsthand to draw my own conclusions rather

than rely on what analysts and reporters were trying to tell me. And as the trial went

on, it became pretty clear to me that quite a few people in the media writing about and

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