Amber Heard to go on social media hiatus forward of defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp

Amber Heard says she can be “offline for the subsequent a number of weeks” as she faces a defamation lawsuit within the US filed by her former husband and embattled Hollywood star Johnny Depp.

Heard, who will subsequent be seen in Warner Bros/ DC movie “Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom”, shared the replace together with her followers and followers on Instagram on Saturday night time.

“I’ll go offline for the subsequent a number of weeks. As you could know, I will 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 Put up, through which I recounted my expertise of violence and home abuse,” the 35-year-old wrote within the notice.

In keeping with Selection, Depp has launched a authorized battle in opposition to Heard after she penned a Washington Put up op-ed in 2018 stating that she is a survivor of home abuse.

Though Heard didn’t point out Depp (58) by 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 quite wrote about “the worth ladies pay for talking in opposition to males in energy”.

“I proceed to pay that value, however hopefully when this case concludes, I can transfer on and so can Johnny,” she additional stated.

Depp is pursuing a USD 50 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard. Her plea to dismiss the swimsuit after Depp misplaced his libel case within the UK was denied. The case is ready to open Monday in Fairfax County, Virginia.

In her put up Heard continued she has all the time “maintained a love” for her former husband, including that “it brings me nice ache to need to reside out the small print of our previous life collectively in entrance of the world”. “Right now, I acknowledge the continuing help I have been lucky to obtain all through these years, and in these coming weeks I can be leaning on it greater than ever,” she added.

In November 2020, Depp misplaced a UK libel case in opposition to the writer of The Solar, a British tabloid that alleged he was a “spouse beater” in a 2018 article. The choose dominated that the phrases had been “considerably true”.

Later Heard requested that Depp’s defamation swimsuit filed in opposition to her within the U S be dismissed after the UK verdict got here out, since each lawsuits contain allegations of Depp as an abuser. Nonetheless, the Virginia courtroom dominated that the 2 instances and statements had been “inherently totally different”.

Depp has since argued that Hollywood is “boycotting” him, pointing to the long-delayed launch of his biopic “Minamata”.

Since his dropping the UK lawsuit, the actor additionally additionally exited the Warner Bros franchise “Unbelievable Beasts and The place to Discover Them”, the place he had performed the principle antagonist position of Gellert Grindelwald in two movies.

Mads Mikkelsen was later recast within the position for the upcoming third movie titled “Unbelievable Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore”, which was launched within the UK on April 8.