Drew Barrymore, Extra Stars React

Amid Johnny Depp and Amber Heard‘s defamation trial, celebrities have been maintaining a tally of the courtroom proceedings — and so they haven’t been afraid to share their opinions.

Drew Barrymore made headlines after joking concerning the authorized drama throughout her discuss present. “It’s, like, one layer of loopy, it’s a seven-layer dip of madness. I do know that these are two folks’s actual lives and I do know what it’s wish to have your life put out in public,” the 50 First Dates star, 47, stated concerning the live-streamed trial in April. “I perceive all the emotions, however they’re truly providing up this data.”

After receiving criticism on social, the California native apologized to her followers for attempting so as to add humor to the dialog.

“It has come to my consideration that I’ve offended folks with making mild of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and for that, I simply wish to deeply apologize and admire everybody who spoke out as a result of this generally is a teachable second for me and the way I transfer ahead and the way I conduct myself,” Barrymore detailed in an Instagram video in Might. “I generally is a extra considerate and higher individual shifting ahead as a result of all I wish to do is be a very good individual and I very a lot admire the depth of this and I’ll develop and alter from it, and I thank everybody for serving to me develop alongside the best way and instructing me.”

Depp, 58, and Heard’s courtroom trial is a results of the Oscar nominee suing his ex-wife, 36, for defamation. The Kentucky native claims that Heard’s 2018 op-ed about her past history with abuse cost him his career in Hollywood.

The previous couple’s relationship first became a topic of conversation one year after they tied the knot in 2014. The activist filed for divorce after 15 months of marriage and obtained a temporary restraining order against Depp after accusing him of home violence. The Pirates of the Caribbean star, for his half, has denied the claims.

After their 2016 divorce, Depp filed a libel lawsuit in opposition to the U.Ok. newspaper The Solar for referring to him as a “spouse beater” in a 2018 article. Two years later, the Excessive Courtroom of Justice dominated that The Solar‘s article was not libelous because Heard’s allegations were “substantially true.”

The actor has since addressed how Heard’s essay for The Washington Post affected his future. “It’s been six years of attempting occasions,” Depp stated throughout his witness testimony in April. “It’s fairly unusual when at some point you’re Cinderella, so to talk, then 0.6 seconds you’re Quasimodo. I didn’t deserve that, nor did my kids, nor did the individuals who have believed in me for all these years. I didn’t need any of these folks to consider that I had completed them unsuitable or lied to them or that I used to be a fraud. I delight myself on honesty.”

The Aquaman star, who has but to take the stand, reflected on her ups and downs with Depp forward of the authorized trial. “I by no means named him, reasonably I wrote concerning the worth ladies pay for talking in opposition to males in energy,” she wrote by way of Instagram that very same month. “I proceed to pay that worth, however hopefully, when this case concludes, I can transfer on and so can Johnny. I’ve at all times maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me nice ache to should stay out the main points of our previous life collectively in from of the world.”

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