A #MeToo activist said in a court document released Friday that she was "misquoted and misused" by a British tabloid newspaper in an article that accused Johnny Depp of physically abusing his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the paper's executive editor, Dan Wootton, at the High Court in London over the April 2018 article, which called him a "wife-beater." He strongly denies abusing Heard.
The article claimed there was a backlash by #MeToo activists against author J.K. Rowling because she was defending her "famous pal" Depp, a star of the Harry Potter spinoff movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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