Amber Heard's lawyer is blaming a social media frenzy for turning her defamation trial with Johnny Depp into a 'zoo'. The actress owes her ex-husband millions of dollars in damages, money her team says she doesn't have. 7NEWS
“One of the first things she said is, ‘I am so sorry to all those women out there. This is a setback for all women in and outside the courtroom’,” Bredehoft said.“Unless you pull out your phone and you video your spouse or your significant other beating you, effectively you won’t be believed.”Bredehoft said she believes jurors could not escape the intense social media frenzy surrounding the trial.
“How can you not? They went home every night. They have families. The families are on social media,” she said. “We had a 10-day break in the middle because of the judicial conference. There’s no way they couldn’t have been influenced by it.”Johnny Depp and Amber Heard began dating after meeting on the set of The Rum Diary in 2011.In a statement after discovering she’d lost the case, Heard said she was “disappointed beyond words”.
“I’m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my husband,” Heard said.“It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.
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