Amber Heard Court Lines Enacted By Kid, Fans Claim ‘Kid is a Better Actor Than Heard’

By Haider Ali in News On 16th May 2022
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The video quickly went viral on tik tok, with millions of views in just a few days. The video was quickly picked up by popular meme sites, and it grew in popularity day by day. People began to leave comments and share the video.

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"Someone gets this kid in front of a director," said the video's caption. According to several users, the kid is a better actor than Amber Heard. 

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"My dog stepped on the bee, my dad has to pee, and 1 + 2 = 3," the boy said at the end of the film, depicting a courtroom setting where Amber was presenting her testimony. Amber Heard has seen a lot of backlash on social media.

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The Johnny Depp–Amber Heard defamation case was put on hold last week, but the parallel court of public opinion has scarcely paused its deliberations on a case that is being closely followed across the world.

Part two of the Depp v Heard trial in Fairfax, Virginia, will see Heard finish her testimony and then be cross-examined by Depp's legal team before her attorneys summon witnesses such as Hollywood icon Ellen Barkin, who had a relationship with Depp in the 1990s, and Heard's sister, Whitney Henriquez.

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However, the terms of the case have already been determined four weeks in. It's not just one case, but two. In one, Depp is claiming defamation for a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which Heard described herself as a survivor of domestic abuse; in the other, and perhaps more important to Depp, is his attempt to reclaim a reputation and career that were severely harmed when Heard filed a temporary restraining order against him in 2016. She is suing in response to his contention that her charges are false.

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“He was willing to have all the ugly, dark sides of him come out. The details didn’t make him look good, and the public was not necessarily aware of them, to clear his name about the abuse,” said Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer Mitra Ahouraian. “That to me is powerful because he’s trying to win the court of public opinion.”

In the United States, the threshold for defamation of public persons is high: Depp must show that what was said was false and that Heard knew it was false, or that it was stated with malice. By losing, he may triumph in the court of public opinion - in other words, on social media, and with moviegoers.

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#JusticeforJohnnyDepp has almost 10 billion views on TikTok, which is more than #AmberHeard (8.4 billion) and #JusticeforAmberHeard (8.5 billion) (37.2m). The Law & Crime Livestream had 587,285 viewers during Heard's 4 May hearing.

However, the issue is complicated for several reasons: Depp's claim was allowed to proceed based on the doctrine of defamation solely by implication – Depp was not named in the Heard ACLU-drafted article, and none of the abuse allegations were repeated. Heard, on the other hand, claimed to have "felt the full weight of our culture's hatred for women who speak out."

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