After dominating the news during the summer of 2022 Channel 4 has released a new documentary which looks into the famous Johnny Depp v Amber Heard defamation trial in the US. Their defamation case was broadcast almost daily from Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia, with millions of people across the globe tuning in to watch.
Johnny, at the time, was suing Amber for $50m over a Washington Post article she had written, titled: "I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change." The article did not mention Johnny by name but his lawyers said it falsely implied he physically and sexually abused Heard while they were together. The US trial came two years after a UK libel case when Depp lost his libel battle against News Group Newspapers over an article published in The Sun which branded him a "wife beater". Read more on that here.
The couple had met in 2009 on the set of the film The Rum Diary and reportedly started dating by the start of 2012, as The Manchester Evening News reports. They eventually married during a private ceremony in 2015, but Amber filed for divorce a year later.
