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According to a testimony presented in the Fairfax County Circuit Court, where the trial is taking place due to the defamation lawsuit of Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard, the actress forced details about her marriage to the actor to be included in the opinion article for which they are currently in this legal process.
The general advice of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization that wrote the piece on behalf of Heard, Terrence Dougherty testified that in the process of creating the article published in the Washington Post at 2016 There were several discussions about the first draft with the actress, who is an ACLU ambassador specializing in gender-based violence issues .
In the letter published strategically to coincide with the premiere of “Aquaman”, Heard assured “two years ago , I became a public figure who symbolizes domestic abuse, and I felt with all its weight the force of the anger of our culture against women who denounce”, to despite the fact that his lawyers advised him to remove those statements from the article. Currently, Depp’s lawyers claim that these refer to the abuse allegations that the actress brought against Depp in 2016.
Dougherty commented that many ACLU lawyers reviewed the article and also, the actress’s lawyers read it to ensure that it did not violate Heard and Depp’s confidentiality agreement during their divorce. in 2016. However, an email received by Jessica Weitz, an ACLU employee who participated in this process, contains an edited version of the piece that was approved by the interpreter’s legal team, but that restored a part that had been deleted in the first version.
The ACLU general counsel testified that “the language that ended up in the final opinion piece it was very different from the original language”, but that they did not speak directly about the relationship between the actors. Dougherty also shared that Heard complied with the agreement to donate 3.5 million dollars (half of the seven million he received in his divorce with Depp) to the ACLU. He stated that so far they have received 1 .3 million and that they hope that the rest will be paid during the next decade, but that the actress has not given money since 2016.
Amber Heard’s defense assured that although the jury could believe that she was not a victim of domestic abuse by Johnny Depp, the article does not talk about Depp, nor he is the main subject, so I wouldn’t be defaming him. They stated that the actress has the right to express herself publicly about her experiences.
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