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Johnny Depp Addresses "Soap Opera" Media Frenzy of His and Amber Heard’s Legal Battle
Johnny Depp is reflecting connected having aspects of his idiosyncratic beingness play retired successful the public.
While promoting his latest directorial venture, Modi - Three Days connected the Wings of Madness, astatine the San Sebastian International Film Festival successful Spain, the Pirates of the Caribbean star discussed however helium related to the film's subject, Amedeo Modigliani, adding that they had some gone done a fig of ordeals successful their lives—which for Johnny included his precocious publicized divided from ex Amber Heard.
"Each has their story," Johnny told reporters during a Sept. 24 property league per The Hollywood Reporter. "Sure, we tin accidental that I've been done a fig of things present and there. But, you know, I'm alright."
And portion the 61-year-old—who shares daughter Lily-Rose, 25, and son Jack, 22, with ex Vanessa Paradis—is alert that others person "been done a fig of things" arsenic well, helium joked, "Maybe yours wasn't—didn't crook into a soap opera. Televised, successful fact," seemingly a notation to his and Amber's 2022 defamation trial, which was live-streamed each day.
"We each acquisition and spell done what we spell through," Johnny added. "And those things that we are capable to unrecorded and retrieve and use, these are your stripes. You ne'er hide them. So to spot these radical each teetering connected the verge of earning their stripes, hopeless to talk but incapable to, successful a way."
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The Finding Neverland star has seldom spoken astir his June 2022 defamation proceedings against his erstwhile wife, successful which helium was awarded $10.4 cardinal successful full damages after a assemblage recovered Amber liable for defaming Johnny for a 2018 Washington Post essay. While the 38-year-old hadn't named him straight successful the piece, she referred to herself arsenic a "public fig representing home abuse." (Amber herself was awarded $2 million in successful compensatory damages aft the assemblage recovered that Johnny's lawyer had accused her of perpetrating a "hoax.")
In December 2022, Amber—who is ma to 3-year-old daughter Oonagh—made the determination to settee the defamation lawsuit, writing connected Instagram astatine the time, "It's important for maine to accidental I ne'er chose this. I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed."
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She added, "I marque this determination having mislaid religion successful the American ineligible system, wherever my unprotected grounds served arsenic amusement and societal media fodder."
Following Amber's decision, Johnny's lawyers said successful a connection to E! News that they were "pleased to formally adjacent the doorway connected this achy section for Mr. Depp" and that helium would beryllium donating $1 cardinal paid to him by Amber's security to charity.
Prior to the 2022 decision, a justice successful the High Court had ruled against Johnny in his 2020 libel lawsuit against The Sun.
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