Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJohnny Depp acknowledged on Wednesday that Disney was already wary of working with him before ex-wife Amber Heard wrote an op-ed alluding to her abuse claims in December 2018, as his cross-examination got underway in a Virginia courtroom.Depp has accused Heard of ruining his career by publishing the piece.
He is suing her for $50 million, alleging that her claims were fabricated and that she is the one who beat him. Under questioning from his own lawyer, Depp said that Disney dropped him from the sixth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean” days after the piece was published.
The film has not been produced and is currently in “dangle mode,” he testified.But on cross-examination, Heard’s attorney, Ben Rottenborn, asked about a Daily Mail article from October 2018, which reported that Depp was “out as Jack Sparrow.” “I wasn’t aware of that, but it doesn’t surprise me,” Depp testified. “Two years had gone by of constant worldwide talk about me being this wife beater.
So I’m sure that Disney was trying to cut ties to be safe. The #MeToo movement was in full swing at that point.”Heard first accused Depp of domestic violence when she filed for a restraining order in 2016.
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