Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nAmber Heard says legal battles with Johnny Depp have left her unable and unwilling to speak publicly. Photo \/ AFP <\/p>\n
Amber Heard has \u201clost [her] ability to speak\u201d after her legal battle with Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n
\n 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
\n wants to tell her own \u201cstory\u201d about her marriage to the Pirates of the Caribbean actor.\n <\/p>\n
In a confessional interview for Silenced \u2013 which has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival \u2013 with director Selina Miles, Amber said: \u201cThis is not about me. 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\u201d.<\/p>\n
International human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson is also involved with the documentary, and she assisted Amber with her participation in Johnny\u2019s 2018 libel lawsuit against the Sun newspaper, after they branded him a \u201cwife-beater\u201d, and she recalled how her former spouse\u2019s fans shouted and jeered at her as she made her way to and from court.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bang Showbiz 26 Jan, 2026 05:49 AM3 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26504,74,34368,5837,2562,146343,156,6871,27501,1364,32096,6712,5836,111,139,69,20863,5815,61,54,102],"class_list":["post-252228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ability","tag-after","tag-amber","tag-battle","tag-claims","tag-depp","tag-entertainment","tag-has","tag-heard","tag-her","tag-johnny","tag-legal","tag-lost","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-she","tag-speak","tag-to","tag-trial","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252228","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=252228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}