Hate, harassment, and a ‘haywire’ trial: Amber Heard breaks silence

Hollywood actor Amber Heard recently spoke about how she was confronted by fans of her ex-husband Johnny Depp outside Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court during the course of the duo’s defamation trial. 

In an interview with Today’s Savannah Guthrie, Heard talked about how she would come across people holding hateful signs.  

“Every single day I passed from three, four, sometimes six blocks—city blocks lined with people holding signs saying, ‘Burn the witch,’ ‘Death to Amber,'” she said in a preview of the primetime special which will be aired on Friday. 

“After three and a half weeks, I took the stand and saw a courtroom packed full of Captain Jack Sparrow fans who were vocal, energized,” the 36-year-old said as she referred to the character Depp played in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’.

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“This was the most humiliating and horrible thing I’ve ever been through. I have never felt more removed from my own humanity. I felt less than human,” Heard said about the televised trial.

“I think the vast majority of this trial was played out on social media. I think that this trial is an example of that gone haywire, gone amok. And the jury’s not immune to that,” she told Guthrie.

Heard also addressed detractors and fans of the ‘Edward Scissorhands’ actor who accused her of putting on a show during her emotional testimonies.

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“Says the lawyer for the man who convinced the world he had scissors for fingers? I’m the performer? I had listened to weeks of testimony insinuating or saying quite directly that I’m a terrible actress, so I’m a bit confused how I could be both,” she said. 

On June 1, Heard lost the court battle and was sued by Depp for $50 million after a six-week trial over an op-ed she wrote in 2018 in which she called herself a victim of domestic abuse.