Bill Burr has jumped to Johnny Depp’s defence amid the actor’s ongoing defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million following a December 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post in which she seemingly accused him of domestic abuse, despite not naming him.
She then countersued the actor for $100 million. The comedian said, while talking about the lawsuit on the latest episode of his “Monday Morning Podcast”, “I’m too big a Johnny Depp fan to watch [the trial].
I love that guy and I just — I don’t want to hear all these personal details and s**t. “From what I’ve seen, the guy is f**king destroying.
And what’s great about this, is if he really does expose this woman for lying, I’m wondering — all these people that, you know, just accepted her lies about him if they’re going to apologize somehow ’cause they publicly trashed him.” READ MORE: Amber Heard Claims Johnny Depp Did A Cavity Search On Her: ‘I Just Wanted It to Be Over’ Burr insisted it would “be nice” if people “publicly apologized and said, ‘Maybe next time we won’t jump to conclusions'” if Depp were to win the trial.
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