By way of PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor Amber Heard says she might be “offline for the following a number of weeks” as she faces a defamation lawsuit in the USA filed through her former husband and embattled Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp.
Heard, who will subsequent be noticed in Warner Bros/ DC movie “Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom”, shared the replace along with her fanatics and fans on Instagram on Saturday night time.
“I’ll pass offline for the following a number of weeks. As it’s possible you’ll know, I’m going to be in Virginia the place I face my ex-husband Johnny Depp in courtroom. Johnny is suing me for an op-ed I wrote within the Washington Submit, wherein I recounted my revel in of violence and home abuse,” the 35-year-old wrote within the word.
In line with Selection, Depp has introduced a criminal combat towards Heard after she penned a Washington Submit op-ed in 2018 mentioning that she is a survivor of home abuse. Even supposing Heard didn’t point out Depp (58) through title within the column, she accused him of home violence after submitting for divorce in 2016.
In her message on Instagram, the actor stated within the article in query she by no means named Depp however somewhat wrote about “the fee girls pay for talking towards males in energy”.
“I proceed to pay that worth, however expectantly when this situation concludes, I will transfer on and so can Johnny,” she additional stated.
Depp is pursuing a USD 50 million defamation lawsuit towards Heard. Her plea to push aside the swimsuit after Depp misplaced his libel case in the United Kingdom was once denied. The case is ready to open Monday in Fairfax County, Virginia.
In her publish Heard endured she has at all times “maintained a love” for her former husband, including that “it brings me nice ache to must are living out the main points of our previous existence in combination in entrance of the sector”.
“Presently, I acknowledge the continuing toughen I have been lucky to obtain all over those years, and in those coming weeks I can be leaning on it greater than ever,” she added.
In November 2020, Depp misplaced a UK libel case towards the writer of The Solar, a British tabloid that alleged he was once a “wife-beater” in a 2018 article. The pass judgement on dominated that the phrases have been “considerably true”.
Later Heard asked that Depp’s defamation swimsuit filed towards her in the USA be brushed aside after the United Kingdom verdict got here out, since each complaints contain allegations of Depp as an abuser. Alternatively, the Virginia courtroom dominated that the 2 instances and statements have been “inherently other”.
Depp has since argued that Hollywood is “boycotting” him, pointing to the long-delayed unencumber of his biopic “Minamata”.
Since his shedding the United Kingdom lawsuit, the actor additionally exited the Warner Bros franchise “Improbable Beasts and The place to To find Them”, the place he had performed the principle antagonist function of Gellert Grindelwald in two movies. Mads Mikkelsen was once later recast within the function for the approaching 3rd movie titled “Improbable Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore”, which was once launched in the United Kingdom on April 8.