Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's Court Battle Revisited in Netflix Doc
, makes clear, the documentary will go far beyond the courtroom and examine how the case took social media ablaze. In fact, the trailer shows a glimpse at the incessant coverage on the news and social media, noting how the attention ultimately shaped the trial.
"Depp was the one who wanted the cameras in the courtroom, she didn't," one person notes in a voice over, with another adding, "I would argue it's a PR campaign disguised as a defamation case." Another sums up just how big the story became by saying, "This has moved away from a news story or a lawsuit and has transformed into a cultural moment."In the description for the doc, Netflix echoes the sentiment referring to the case as the "first Trial by TikTok" due to its popularity on the platform and social media at large.
"And that leads us to the real question," a newscaster says at the end of the trailer. "What is the actual truth?" The defamation trial took place in the spring of 2022. Johnny had filed a $50 million lawsuit against Amber—to whom he was married from 2015 to 2016—for libel over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the
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