Actor Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard’s infamous $50 million defamation trial over the actress’ op-ed from 2018 for the Washington Post in which she called herself ‘a public figure representing domestic abuse’ had drawn massive attention across world as it echoes through the corridors of fame and public opinion.

The actress’ op-ed headline read, ‘I spoke up against sexual violence and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change,’ to which the actor claimed that even though she never mentioned him in the op-ed, it was implied that she was trying to tell the world that Johnny Depp had abused her throughout their relationship. During the trial, Johnny Depp’s text messages revealed a different side of the actor, which surprised the audience. Let’s find out.

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in The Rum Diary

Johnny Depp texts claimed Amber Heard is heading for a ‘total global humiliation’

Pirates of the Caribbean actor, Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for $50 million for an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in 2018 claiming that she is a public figure who is representing domestic abuse. Heard never mentioned Depp in her op-ed, but her intentions to imply that it was indeed the actor who was abusing her in their relationship was quite clear.

During their trial held at Fairfax Virginia County, several text messages of Johnny Depp were revealed in which he had noted that his ex-wife was begging for a global humiliation, and she was going to get that. Depp wrote a text to his former talent agent, Christian Carino, via NY Post,

Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp

“She is begging for a total global humiliation. She’s going to get it. I’m going to need your texts about San Francisco. I am even sorry to ask, but she s*cked Moullusk’s crooked d*ck and he gave her some s***y lawyers. I have no mercy, no fear, and not an ounce of emotion or what I once thought was love for this gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market.”

The actor further wrote that he was happy that Heard wanted to go to fight this out, adding that she was going to hit the wall hard and that he could not wait to have this waste out of his life. Depp, in his long text to the former talent agent, added that he could only hope that Karma kicks in and takes the gift of breath from her.

Johnny Depp, however, when questioned, denied writing the text and said that it was penned when his life was being upended by Amber Heard’s abuse allegations.

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Amber Heard’s lawyer claimed she didn’t want the world to know the real Johnny Depp

In her final testimony, the actress who is set to appear as Mera in DC Studios’ Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom opposite Jason Momoa had alleged that her ex-husband is a powerful man adding that he wanted to ruin her career. Heard’s lawyer, J. Benjamin Rottenborn had claimed that the actor was going to turn the trial into a soap opera.

He added via BI,

“She could fill a book with those details. She would have told you about the monster but she didn’t. That wasn’t the point of this article. He wanted to make her life hard, he wanted to ruin her life. He wanted to destroy her. ”

Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard
Amber Heard

He continued to state he was not very sure why Johnny Depp brought the lawsuit because the evidence they had was not going to be pretty adding that everything was going to come out with noting that the actress didn’t want to unearth for the public who the real Johnny Depp is but they’ll now see the real Johnny Depp behind the pirate costume.

The jurors after six weeks of listening to both parties found both Heard and Depp liable for defaming each other. However, they awarded significantly more damages to the actor, which can be seen as his win over his ex-wife.

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