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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Andrew Lawrence

Depp-Heard trial: are court streams the new celebrity sit-down interview?

Johnny Depp in court in Fairfax, Virginia, on 5 May.
Johnny Depp in court in Fairfax, Virginia, on 5 May. Photograph: Reuters

His late mother derisively called him “one eye”. He keeps cocaine in a jar. He wrote on a wall in blood with a severed finger, and his ex-wife Amber Heard thought it’d be funny if she pooped in their bed and blamed it on the dogs.

These are some of the sordid details about Johnny Depp that have been “spread on the world like peanut butter” (his words) since the actor’s defamation trial began unfolding on live TV last month.

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