Amber Heard claims she has lost her ‘ability to speak’ after Depp trial

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26 Jan, 2026 05:49 AM3 mins to read

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Amber Heard says legal battles with Johnny Depp have left her unable and unwilling to speak publicly. Photo / AFP

Amber Heard has “lost [her] ability to speak” after her legal battle with Johnny Depp.

The Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom actress has made a surprise appearance in Silenced, a documentary about accused men using defamation lawsuits to silence women speaking out about abuse, and she claimed she no longer
wants to tell her own “story” about her marriage to the Pirates of the Caribbean actor.

In a confessional interview for Silenced – which has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival – with director Selina Miles, Amber said: “This is not about me. I have lost my ability to speak. I am not here to tell my story. I don’t want to tell my story. In fact, I don’t want to use my voice anymore. That’s the problem”.

International human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson is also involved with the documentary, and she assisted Amber with her participation in Johnny’s 2018 libel lawsuit against the Sun newspaper, after they branded him a “wife-beater”, and she recalled how her former spouse’s fans shouted and jeered at her as she made her way to and from court.

She said: “The outcome of that trial depended on my participation, and I depended on the outcome of that trial. When I first met [Robinson], I immediately got the sense that she got the bigger picture. What has happened to me is an amplified version of what a lot of women live through.