Fire up your browsers and suspend your disbelief — Court TV is broadcasting the gory, inglorious showdown between actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. We are into week three of the trial from Fairfax county court,Virginia; the unedifying drama that has unfolded could easily have been scripted for Netflix.
That is, if the rather scatological details cleared the executives. Depp is suing Heard for defamation to the tune of $50 million over a piece she wrote in the Washington Post in December 2018, accusing him of domestic abuse. She is counter-suing for $100 million. In fact, the circus of a trial is, at least partly, a post-mortem on a beyond toxic marriage, one that has featured severed fingers (Johnny’s); drug binges (Johnny’s); alcoholic rages (both’s); and turds in beds (Amber’s, allegedly).
