'Depp v. Heard': Answers to your burning questions after watching Netflix's new doc

Just 14 months after the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial ended, Netflix is revisiting the livestreamed he said-she said battle that captured not only a nation but seemingly the entire social media universe.

Depp, 60, and Heard, 37, faced off in civil court over a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post in which she suggested she suffered “domestic abuse” at the hands of Depp. Although she didn't name him, Depp filed a $50 million defamation suit, and Heard, his ex-wife, countersued for $100 million.For weeks, from the hearing’s start in April until its conclusion in June, viewers flocked to social media to scrutinize the testimony, evidence and litigation teams; they largely favored Depp and ridiculed Heard. The three-part “Depp v. Heard” (now streaming) examines the backlash against Heard and also interweaves the former spouses’ testimony together so viewers can get each account of major blowups back to back.

Heard and Depp’s story started out promisingly when they fell in love while filming 2011’s “The Rum Diary,” based on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel.

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“She seemed to be the perfect partner: literate, sweet, funny,” Depp testified from the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom. The couple wed in 2015.

“There wasn’t any love like that, you know?” Heard said from the stand. “And then he would… disappear.”

Audio and video recordings of heated arguments between the pair were played in court, but Depp insisted he never physically abused Heard. Here are questions you may have after watching the docuseries:

Why were cameras allowed in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial?

Elaine Bredehoft, an attorney for Heard, said during a June 2022 appearance on “Today” that she argued against cameras in the courtroom due to the “sensitive nature” of the trial. Televising it, she said, “made it a zoo.” And she was right. The live feed provided endless fodder for online commentators.

Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, said Depp pushed for cameras in a July 2022 interview with “CBS Mornings.”“For Johnny, it was about finally being able to tell his story,” she told Gayle King. “These are horrific allegations that were made against him. He needed to be able to tell his story. So, it was important.”

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Why did Johnny Depp lose his British defamation suit against The Sun?

Depp filed an unsuccessful suit against the publisher of The Sun after a 2018 article labeled him a “wife-beater.” Justice Andrew Nicol ruled in November 2020 that “the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms. Heard by Mr. Depp have been proved to the civil standard.” Nicol stated he believed Depp had committed 12 acts of domestic violence against Heard.“So what did Depp’s team learn from this?” Bredehoft asked during her “Today” interview. “Demonize Amber and suppress the evidence. We had an enormous amount of evidence that was suppressed in this case that was (admitted) in the U.K. case.”