Amber Heard says she is dreading the upcoming trial in a defamation lawsuit filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp but hopes that the two of them can “move on” after it’s over.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in which she discussed being a domestic violence survivor.
The trial begins Monday in Virginia, and Heard said on Instagram that she plans to go silent on social media while the legal drama plays out over the course of several weeks.
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“I never named him,” she said of the 2018 op-ed, "rather I wrote about the price women pay for speaking out against men in power. I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny.
“I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it gives me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world,” the Aquaman star added.
Depp, 58, and Heard, 36, who met on the set of The Rum Diaries in 2011, got married in 2015 and broke up the next year, after which she accused him of abuse.
After the U.K. newspaper The Sun called Depp a “wife beater,” the Pirates of the Caribbean star sued the newspaper for libel—and lost. He also lost his appeal.
Heard—who has countersued Depp—tried and failed to get his Fairfax County, Virginia, case tossed out. But Depp also had a legal setback when the court ruled last month that Heard can argue she has immunity under a state statute protecting “statements about matters of public concern.”
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp attend a screening of “Black Mass” on Oct. 11, 2015.
Mike Marsland/GettyThe trial could feature testimony from other bold-faced names, including Elon Musk and James Franco on Heard’s side, and Paul Bettany on Depp’s. In pre-trial hearings, texts showed Depp talking to Bettany about getting revenge on Heard.
“Let’s burn Amber,” Depp wrote.
“Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”
