After a fiery six-week libel trial followed by millions of people, actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard face the same task: rebuilding their images and careers.
Depp won his lawsuit against Heard, his former wife, in a civil claims court in the state of Virginia on Wednesday. He had accused her of defaming him in a piece she wrote published by The Washington Post newspaper. To defame means to harm the public's opinion of someone, especially by saying things that are false or unfair. The jury agreed that Heard defamed him by accusing him of abusing her. "Depp has a hill to climb. Heard has a mountain to climb," said Eric Dezenhall, a crisis mitigator in Washington, D.C.