Amber Heard has made rare comments about the shock she felt after losing her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation case in 2022.
During the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, the “Aquaman” actress made a guest appearance in “Silent,” a documentary about men accused of using defamation lawsuits to silence women who speak out about abuse.
“This isn’t about me. I lost the ability to speak,” she said during a confessional chat with director Serena Miles.
“I’m not here to tell my story. I don’t want to tell my story,” Heard, 39, added.
“Actually, I don’t want to use my voice anymore. That’s the problem.”
Page Six reached out to Heard’s representatives for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
In February 2019, Mr. Depp, 62, filed a lawsuit against Mr. Heard for $50 million, claiming he was defamed by a 2018 Washington Post op-ed about the abuse.
Three years later, the mother of three lost her defamation case and was ordered to pay her ex-girlfriend $10 million in restitution and $350,000 in punitive damages. She won $2 million in damages on her counterclaim.
In December 2022, the “Justice League” star settled her lawsuit with Depp and agreed to pay him $1 million.
Three months after losing the case, Ms Heard and her eldest daughter Oona Page, 4, moved to Spain.
Last June, Edward Scissorhands star claimed he was a “crash test dummy” for the #MeToo movement during his infamous trial.
“I’ll tell you what hurts. There are people, but I think it’s three who defiled me,” he told The Times of London about his anonymous friends.
“Those people were at my kid’s party. They threw them in the air. And, look, I understand the people who couldn’t stand up[for me]because the scariest thing for them was to make the right choice,” Depp added.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor said his lengthy trial with the “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” actress came ahead of the #MeToo movement, which amplifies the voices of victims of sexual harassment and assault.
“I was like a MeToo crash test dummy…and I was a sponge and took it all in,” he told the outlet.
“So out of the hundreds of people I’ve met in this industry, I wanted to know who was playing it safe. ‘You better wake up!'”
