Amber Heard is going off social media as she gets ready to face her ex-husband Johnny Depp in court over a defamation trial.
In her post on Instagram, on Saturday, April 9, the 35-year-old actress wrote, “I’m going to go offline for the next several weeks. As you may know, I’ll be in Virginia, where I face my ex-husband Johnny Depp in court.”
In a 2018 Washington Post op-ed, published two years after she filed for divorce from Depp, Heard wrote that “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.” In March 2019, Depp filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit over the article, which makes no mention of the actor.
“Johnny is suing me for an op-ed I wrote in the Washington Post, in which I recounted my experience of violence and domestic abuse,” Heard wrote in her Instagram post. “I never named him, rather I wrote about the price women pay for speaking out against men in power. I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny.”
She continued, “I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world. At this time, I recognize the ongoing support I’ve been fortunate to receive throughout the years, and in these coming weeks I will be leaning on it more than ever. With love always, A”
The 58-year-old actor has not responded to her post, which she shared two days before their trial begins in Fairfax, Va. on Monday, April 11. The proceedings, estimated to last six weeks, will air on Court TV.
