{"id":32950,"date":"2022-06-02T01:17:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T01:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnny-depp-vs-amber-heard-trial-what-did-the-washington-post-op-ed-actually-say\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T01:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T01:17:23","slug":"johnny-depp-vs-amber-heard-trial-what-did-the-washington-post-op-ed-actually-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnny-depp-vs-amber-heard-trial-what-did-the-washington-post-op-ed-actually-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial: What did the Washington Post op-ed actually say?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The recent court case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard centered around an opinion piece Heard wrote in 2018 for The Washington Post<\/em>, titled: \u201cI spoke up against sexual violence – and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change. “<\/p>\n Depp sued ex-wife Heard for alleged defamation over the article for $ 50m (\u00a3 40m). While Depp was not named, he claims her allegations the piece made it difficult for him to land movie roles. Heard then pursued a $ 100m (\u00a3 80m) counterclaim.<\/p>\n On 1 June, the jury shared their verdict, finding that Heard had defamed Depp on all three counts. She was asked to award him $ 10m (\u00a3 8m) in compensatory damages and $ 5m (\u00a3 4m) in punitive damages. Heard was found to have a partial win in her case and was awarded $ 2m (\u00a3 1.6m) in compensatory damages, but no punitive damages.<\/p>\n You can follow the trial live here. <\/p>\n But what did the original article – which remains online at The Washington Post <\/em>– actually say?<\/p>\n The piece starts with Heard explaining that she was “exposed to abuse at a very young age”.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew certain things early on, without ever having to be told. I knew that men have the power – physically, socially and financially – and that a lot of institutions support that arrangement, \u201dwrote Heard. “I knew this long before I had the words to articulate it, and I bet you learned it young, too.”<\/p>\n She went on to say that she had been “harassed and sexually assaulted by the time I was of college age.” Heard added that she \u201ckept quiet\u201d about these incidents. \u201cI did not expect filing complaints to bring justice,\u201d she wrote. “And I didn’t see myself as a victim.”<\/p>\n