{"id":251307,"date":"2026-01-25T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:07:16","slug":"amber-heard-laments-losing-ability-to-speak-after-johnny-depp-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251307\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard Laments Losing ‘Ability to Speak’ After Johnny Depp Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amber Heard
\n Depp Trial Took Away My Ability to Tell My Story<\/p>\n

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\n January 24, 2026
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Amber Heard<\/a> says her voice has felt drowned out since the Johnny Depp<\/a> trial … lamenting the loss of her story in a new documentary.<\/p>\n

The actress appears in the new doc “Silenced” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday … and she reflects on her legal battle with her ex-husband in the clip — including the impact it’s had on speaking her truth.<\/p>\n

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Heard said, “I didn\u2019t understand it could get so much worse for me as a woman, using my voice. I have lost my ability to speak. I am not here to tell my story. I don\u2019t want to tell my story, In fact, I don\u2019t want to use my voice anymore. That\u2019s the problem.”<\/p>\n

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As you know … Depp filed a defamation lawsuit against Heard after she claimed he physically abused him in a 2018 op-ed published by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

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A jury ultimately sided<\/a> with Depp and awarded him millions of dollars in damages … while the jury sided with Heard in her countersuit.<\/p>\n

Heard has retreated from the spotlight in recent years … moving to Spain<\/a> in the aftermath of the verdict and welcoming twins last year.<\/p>\n

While Heard’s image hasn’t really recovered in the aftermath of the trial, Depp’s has … and he’s increasingly booking bigger and bigger projects — recently directing a film starring Al Pacino<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amber Heard Depp Trial Took Away My Ability to Tell My Story Published January 24, 2026 6:10 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-251307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}