Polarization and ruin: what the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has left

• Newcastle This is how Johnny Depp celebrated his victory: eating 'fish and chips' and drinking pints in a British pub

• Courts Verdict: Amber Heard will pay 15 million to Johnny Depp for accusing him of mistreatment;

  Depp must also give him 2 for defamation

• Courts Amber Heard after losing the trial against Johnny Depp: "I am disappointed with what this verdict means for women"

• Reactions The words of Johnny Depp after winning the trial against Amber Heard: "They have given me my life"

The first thing Johnny Depp (58 years old) did after a

, finding Amber Heard guilty of defaming him, was to declare himself "truly honest."

," he said.

"Six years ago," he added, "my life, that of my children, that of the people closest to me and also that of the people who for many years have supported me and believed in me changed forever."

After six weeks of media circus, with the walls smeared with viscera and half the world connected to the drip of intimacies, the jury in Virginia had just decreed that his ex-wife,

when in 2018 she accused him in the

, without actually writing her name, of mistreating her.

For concocting a trola with the aim of burning her career

dollars, which the judge left at 10.35.

about the trial

Opinion.

Amber has gotten out of hand

• Writing: ALBERTO KING

Amber has gotten out of hand

Litigation.

He has not always won: this was the other trials that Depp and Heard have faced

• Drafting: LUIS FERNANDO ROMO

He has not always won: this was the other trials that Depp and Heard have faced

The apotheosis of abuse, with the actor in the role of Bluebeard, has been reduced to an attempt at reputational liquidation.

Depp

, although no one comes out unscathed from the abuser's name.

Good time to remember that a year ago, when she received the Donosti award, the Association of Women Filmmakers of Audiovisual Media (CIMA),

.

The first thing Heard did after the court convicted her of defamation

.

She went on to explain that she is "even more disappointed with what

"It's a throwback," she stressed, "it throws back the idea that violence against women shouldn't be taken seriously."

The jury agreed with her in one of her claims: she condemned her ex to pay her two million dollars after one of

.

But the jury does not go an inch further and understands and sentences that the liar was her.

Moment of the statement by Kate Moss, Depp's ex-girlfriend, who swore never to have been attacked by the actor.

It was Heard herself who spoke of an episode in which, she said, the actor pushed Moss down the stairs. EFE

The most widely read headline in the United States, the

, after learning of the verdict, headlined "Tie."

Or almost: "The jury found that

, but awarded more money to him."

The newspaper reported that in

and that the British Court of Appeals refused to admit an appeal filed by the actor against the 2020 ruling in which he was accused of mistreating his wife.

The actor

libel lawsuit against

, which published in 2018 that he was a wife beater.

Now that

is worth taking a look at his filmography.

In 2019 he shot a movie.

Another in 2020. Zero in 2021. Zero in 2022.

in compensation.

He stated that he stopped earning 22.5 million as a result of the cancellation of the sixth installment of

, produced by Disney.

According to his lawyers, it was not the only company to cross him.

Warner Bros did too.

The companies deny the majority.

Heard's lawyers insist

of violence.

Perennial bad boy of the industry, he accumulated years of explosive relationships with drink and all kinds of narcotics freaks.

Moment of the trial in which images of Amber Heard were viewed after an alleged assault that has not been conclusive;

the reality is that both had a toxic relationship, but not violent.EFE

Of course, it is one thing to go blind and another to attack your partner.

.

During the trial, one of his exes, the model Kate Moss, testified in favor of Depp.

She claimed that Depp

as Heard had referred to during one of her testimonies.

Nothing to do with the portrait of a sociopathic hyena that Heard painted.

Of course, in times of

, it is enough to insinuate something similar to domestic violence, let alone sexual abuse, to kill him in a race.

The old customs between information and opinion do not work.

An exotic creature.

Typical of more ceremonious or naive times.

"No one is safe from the culture of cancellation,"

Depp had said at a press conference in San Sebastian.

Censorship, responded some reporters, who spent a lot of asking about his cinema.

They wanted statements of, uh,

.

As for Heard, far from getting stuck, he has continued to achieve greedy roles.

In 2021 she was one of the

League, and in 2023 she will premiere, as the protagonist, another great superhero,

All this after she wrote, advised by the American Civil

the

where she described herself as a

The defamation trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp has been broadcast on television and has been an audience leader in the US.

Infinite fans and fascinated onlookers have attended the Virginia courts. EFE

Impossible not to think about the joke on account of Rocío Carrasco's ex-husband, Antonio David, whom his ex accused of ill-treatment in a

that turned Spain upside down.

Months later, the judge decreed that the astracanada, pure morbid fetishism, led to a dismissal

.

The will to "use the dismissal to carry out a parallel public trial, on facts that were already the subject of a final judicial decision and, ignoring these extremes,

which is by transmitting to the hearing that the plaintiff is an abuser.

Johnny Depp during the defamation trial against Amber Heard.AFP

The spectacle of the trial of Depp and Heard

with lethal consequences.

And with a media condemnation that surpasses any judicial sentence.

It is not the only case.

Ask Woody Allen, that he was never declared innocent of abusing his daughter because there was not even a trial:

Both the doctors at the Yale-New Haven Child Sex Abuse Clinic and the detectives and social services had concluded that

, Mia Farrow, with whom Allen was dealing in court for the child custody.

30 years later, with the case just as dead,

in the United States and Hachette canceled the publication of his memoirs.

His jobs, when he manages to pull them off,

billed by a sexual predator.

For the accusations without evidence to take root, it was necessary the contest of stars, like Mira Sorvino, delighted to whimper stuffed in the

Some ended up in jail.

And who says Allen says Plácido Domingo, the singer-

And you don't need to walk through the doors of sexual violence either.

There are heretics for saying what they shouldn't.

Hundreds of people have already tasted the syrup of an activism that

and the right to honor directly proto-fascist.

Amber Heard during the trial in which Depp asked for 15 million dollars for defamation.EFE

The trial between Depp and Heard has been shrouded in a wild phosphorescent fog of mutual suspicion, gossip, verbal attacks, live broadcasts and hysteria.

For many feminists and allies, Depp was (and is) a monster.

Possibly they will still believe it now.

Even this article, in the hands of zealots,

Or worse: a propaganda maneuver to justify the mistreatment or crush the victims.

As the signatories of the manifesto in defense of freedom of expression and in defense of liberal counterweights, among others Anne Applebaum, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood or Noam Chomsky, wrote, we suffer

of what can be said without being threatened with retaliation.

In his statement after the sentencing, Depp said he hopes "the charge will once again be

both in court and in the media."

He is sure that at this time CIMA is already drafting a new statement,

now, the Donosti award.

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