“I think no matter what, it will mean something. I did the right thing,” Heard said. “I did everything I could to stand up for myself and the truth,” the actor was seen saying in the interview with Savannah Guthrie

Even though the jury was ordered to stay off social media, Heard’s legal team insists that it impacted the case. Attorney Elaine Charlson Bredehoft said that “There’s no way they couldn’t be influenced by it”.

When men are caught on the wrong foot, they are not demonised. They are given benefit of doubt. Why? This is not about placing blame but about seeing the bias and the manipulation.

Amber Heard was sued by Johnny Depp, as he accused Amber Heard of defaming him in an op-ed she wrote in Washington Post in 2018. After a highly messy trial, the jury found Amber guilty on several counts and the Virginia court ruled that Amber had defamed Depp, and Depp was awarded $15 million in damages. However, post losing this trial, Amber’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft had mentioned in an interview that Amber was in no position to pay the damages.

We tuned in to watch the consequences of a highly dysfunctional marriage. We replaced armchair activism with armchair justice.

Defamation trials – which run according to complex and idiosyncratic rules – are often lengthy and expensive, thus favouring those with the resources to instigate and pursue them.

The Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial case has resulted in many social media users and personalities stating their opinion and listing out information they had found. Like the case, the Depp Heard trial verdict is also being debated by the general public.

While most of the viciousness was directed at Heard, it is hard not to feel that in reality, it is directed at all women.

A sociology graduate student focusing on domestic violence made a Twitter thread about why she believes Amber Heard and why she disagrees with many aspects of the trial.

Throughout the trial, Heard maintained that she was being truthful about all the details she wrote in the op-ed article, saying that she was the one who was defamed.