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Johnny Depp says he was a "crash test dummy" for the #MeToo movement during his highly publicized divorce and trial with ex-wife Amber Heard.

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00:00Johnny Depp says he was a crash test dummy for the Me Too movement during his highly publicized

00:05divorce and trial with ex-wife Amber Heard. Heard's domestic violence allegations against

00:11ex-husband Depp in 2016 led to two highly publicized trials. In 2018, Depp filed a libel

00:18lawsuit against The Sun after the British tabloid magazine called him a quote wife beater. The actor

00:24lost the case as the court ruled in the 2020 trial that The Sun's characterization was

00:29substantially true. In 2019, Depp also sued Heard for defamation over an op-ed she wrote in the

00:36Washington Post in which she called herself quote a figure representing domestic abuse. Following the

00:41live televised 2022 trial, a jury ultimately found Heard liable on all three counts of defamation.

00:48Heard also won one of the three claims in her countersuit. In his new interview, Depp opened up

00:52about why he took Heard to court. I knew I'd have to semi-eviscerate myself. Everyone was saying it'll

00:58go away but I can't trust that. What will go away? The fiction pawned around the f***ing globe? No it

01:03won't. If I don't try to represent the truth, it will be like I've actually committed the acts I'm

01:07accused of and my kids will have to live with it. In the wake of the trials, Warner Brothers asked the

01:12star to exit the Fantastic Beasts franchise and Depp has also said he won't return to the Pirates

01:17franchise as Disney reportedly parted ways with the actor. Depp admitted it hurt seeing these fake

01:22motherf***ers who lie to you, celebrate you, say all sorts of horror behind your back, yet keep the

01:27money. He continued, I was pre-Me Too. I was like a crash test dummy for Me Too. It was before Harvey

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