This combination of two separate photos shows actors Johnny Depp, left, and Amber Heard in the courtroom for closing arguments at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va., on Friday, May 27, 2022. Depp sued Heard after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” (AP Photos/Steve Helber, Pool)
The call came Thursday, only a day after the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard verdict, to a free legal clinic for domestic violence victims in Athens. The woman wanted to pursue her abuse claims, but she was worried.
“The fear was that she’d be seen to be a liar like Amber Heard,” clinic director Christine Scartz said of the woman—the first caller to directly mention the verdict. “People do not want to give the most intimate details of their personal life and then be called a liar.”
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