If you’re somehow just joining the celebrity spectacle of 2022, Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation. A brief recap of this drama before we continue: Heard divorced Depp in 2016, and obtained a temporary restraining order against him. In 2018, she wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post where she recounted her experience with violence and domestic abuse, although she didn’t mention Depp by name.
Other publications ran with the op-ed, including the British tabloid The Sun, which called Depp a “wife-beater.” Depp sued The Sun for libel but lost, with the judge finding that there was “overwhelming evidence” that Depp assaulted Heard many times during their marriage. He also lost on appeal.
And that catches us up. Depp is now seeking $50 million in damages from Heard. The defamation trial is underway now in Virginia’s Fairfax County Courthouse, and Court TV is live-streaming it to the tune of millions of live viewers:
Live-stream the Johnny-Depp Amber Heard trial
That said, the trial won’t be streamed today. That’s because, per Deadline, it won’t be going forward on Fridays at all. The trial is set to last an exhausting five weeks, but only Mondays through Thursdays. There will also be a break on May 9-12 as Judge Penney S. Azcarate goes to a conference, so that whole week will be off.
Both Depp and Heard will take the stand. This is the highest profile celebrity trial in recent memory…unless Will and Jada Pinkett Smith divorce. There’s always something else around the corner.
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