By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor Amber Heard says she can be “offline for the next several weeks” as she faces a defamation lawsuit within the US filed by her former husband and embattled Hollywood star Johnny Depp.
Heard, who will subsequent be seen in Warner Bros/ DC movie “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”, shared the replace along with her followers and followers on Instagram on Saturday evening.
“I’m going to go offline for the next several weeks. As you may know, I’ll be in Virginia where I face my ex-husband Johnny Depp in court. Johnny is suing me for an op-ed I wrote in the Washington Post, in which I recounted my experience of violence and domestic abuse,” the 35-year-old wrote within the word.
According to Variety, Depp has launched a authorized battle in opposition to Heard after she penned a Washington Post op-ed in 2018 stating that she is a survivor of home abuse. Although Heard didn’t point out Depp (58) by title within the column, she accused him of home violence after submitting for divorce in 2016.
In her message on Instagram, the actor mentioned within the article in query she by no means named Depp however moderately wrote about “the price women pay for speaking against men in power”.
“I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny,” she additional mentioned.
Depp is pursuing a USD 50 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard. Her plea to dismiss the go well with after Depp misplaced his libel case within the UK was denied. The case is about to open Monday in Fairfax County, Virginia.
In her publish Heard continued she has at all times “maintained a love” for her former husband, including that “it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world”.
“At this time, I recognize the ongoing support I’ve been fortunate to receive throughout these years, and in these coming weeks I will be leaning on it more than ever,” she added.
In November 2020, Depp misplaced a UK libel case in opposition to the writer of The Sun, a British tabloid that alleged he was a “wife-beater” in a 2018 article. The choose dominated that the phrases had been “substantially true”.
Later Heard requested that Depp’s defamation go well with filed in opposition to her within the US be dismissed after the UK verdict got here out, since each lawsuits contain allegations of Depp as an abuser. However, the Virginia courtroom dominated that the 2 instances and statements had been “inherently different”.
Depp has since argued that Hollywood is “boycotting” him, pointing to the long-delayed launch of his biopic “Minamata”.
Since his shedding the UK lawsuit, the actor additionally exited the Warner Bros franchise “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, the place he had performed the principle antagonist function of Gellert Grindelwald in two movies. Mads Mikkelsen was later recast within the function for the upcoming third movie titled “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”, which was launched within the UK on April 8.
