Amber Heard makes rare comments about brutal legal battle with ex Johnny Depp

Amber Heard subtly addresses her years-long legal battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp in a new documentary.

The “Justice League” actor appears in “Silenced,” which premiered last Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, directed by Selina Miles, explores how defamation laws have been used to silence survivors of abuse and includes a profile of international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson.

One of Robinson’s most high-profile clients was Heard, who makes it clear that she was not involved in “Silenced” for any personal or professional benefit.

“This is not about me. I have lost the ability to speak,” he says in the film, according to Variety. “I’m not here to tell my story. I don’t want to tell my story. In fact, I don’t want to use my voice anymore. That’s the problem.”

Heard and Depp were married from 2015 to 2016. Shortly after their split, Heard accused the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor of having been “verbally and physically abusive” toward her during their marriage.

Depp denied the allegations and, in 2018, filed a lawsuit against British publication The Sun for labeling him a “wife beater” in reference to Heard. Two years later, Depp lost the case.

According to early reviews of “Silenced,” Heard does not address specific details of her relationship with Depp and their split, but still praises Robinson for understanding “the big picture” when she began her legal fight.

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“What has happened to me is an amplified version of what many women experience,” she says, going on to describe how Depp’s supporters threw pieces of trash at her as she entered and left the courtroom each day. “I didn’t understand that, as a woman, things could be so much worse for me by using my voice.”

Despite Depp’s loss in The Sun case, his legal saga with Heard was far from over. In 2019, she sued her ex over a Washington Post op-ed she had written in which she described her experience with domestic violence but did not mention Depp by name.

Heard was found liable on three counts of defamation in connection with the article and ordered to pay around $10.35 million in damages. As for Depp, he was ordered to pay $2 million, as Heard won one of three lawsuits in a countersuit.

The former couple appealed the rulings in 2022, but later agreed to a settlement in which Heard would pay Depp $1 million, which he would donate to several different charities.

In the wake of the legal battle, Heard moved to Madrid, Spain, where she is raising three children and focusing on a career in theater. However, according to Variety, he concludes his appearance in “Silenced” on an optimistic and forward-thinking note.

“It gives me strength to see other people taking up the fight. Women brave enough to address the power imbalance,” she says. “Looking at my daughter’s face as she grows up and slowly begins to walk into this world… I think it can be better.”

Watch director Selina Miles talk about “Silenced” in the clip below.

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