Depp v. Heard
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After six weeks, the contentious defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is set to wrap up Friday. Today on “Post Reports,” what happened in the courtroom and online, and why it matters.
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After six weeks of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial, the jury is hearing closing arguments Friday.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million over an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post in 2018 in which she referred to herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse (Depp has denied all allegations of abuse). Heard countersued Depp for $100 million after his lawyer Adam Waldman called her accusations a hoax.
Despite the gravity of the allegations, the trial has garnered attention from all corners of the Internet — millions have tuned in to the live-streamed trial every day, analyzing and memeing every aspect of the trial. Entertainment reporter Emily Yahr has been covering the contentious trial in person and online, and discusses why so many people are obsessed with it and what that implies.
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| 0:18.0 | And what did you say in response when Ms. Hurt said, |
| 0:20.9 | tell the world, Johnny. Tell them, Johnny Depp, I Johnny Depp, a man, |
| 0:26.0 | I'm a victim to of domestic violence. |
| 0:28.3 | Yes, I said yes. |
| 0:36.3 | For weeks now, all over the internet, there have been clips from the defamation trial |
| 0:40.9 | between the actors and former spouses, Johnny Depp and Amber Hurt. |
| 0:45.9 | I was begging Johnny to not make me prove what I've had to sit on the stand in front of all of you |
| 0:56.3 | and prove and talk about. I was begging not to do this. |
| 1:03.3 | I have to sit where I'm sitting today. |
| 1:06.6 | This trial with claims of spousal abuse at the heart of it is being live-streamed, |
| 1:11.9 | which means that anybody can follow along online and a lot of people are. |
| 1:17.6 | They're tuning in every day, making their own judgments, picking apart everything, |
| 1:22.4 | from what the lawyers are wearing to the body language of the witnesses. |
| 1:26.5 | I hope you guys can get the day off tomorrow, because tomorrow is going to be good. |
| 1:31.1 | The defense is calling Johnny Depp to the witness stand. |
| 1:35.1 | Yesterday, the moment we all had waiting for finally happened, |
| 1:38.3 | Amber Hurt took the stand for the first time. |
| 1:40.5 | And can I say, this is just a fake crying train wreck you can't look away from? |
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