Two weeks after a Virginia jury handed Johnny Depp a victory in his multi-million-dollar defamation trial against Amber Heard, the Aquaman actress is set to publicly speak at length for the first time since the verdict. Heard will appear on NBC in a one-hour primetime special on June 17 in a sit-down with Savannah Guthrie. Certain to be heavily hyped and teased by the Comcast-owned network all week, the special will air at 8 p.m. ET on Friday.
Television turned the celebrity trial into a 24-hour tabloid spectacle. Social media made it into a sport.
The Virginia Press Association asked Friday to intervene in a $50 million lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against Amber Heard, his ex-wife. Depp says he was defamed by an op-ed piece Heard wrote in The Washington Post in December 2018, in which she never identified Depp by name but referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
