After humiliation within the courtroom, Amber Heard is now going through ostracism in Hollywood.
“Did Amber ever actually work in Hollywood?” one Hollywood producer sniffed to Web page Six.
“What else has she actually been in apart from the ‘Aquaman’ film? I don’t suppose she was ever actually a scorching ticket — Johnny made her attention-grabbing.”
Identified for her Hitchcock-blonde appears, Heard was hardly a family title when she connected with Johnny Depp on the set of “The Rum Diaries” in 2011.
Now everybody is aware of who she is — simply not in the way in which she wished.
This week, a jury present in favor of Depp after a six-week defamation trial that gripped the globe — discovering Heard had acted in malice when she wrote in a 2018 Washington Post essay about having been abused, and awarding Depp $10 million in compensatory damages.
Afterward, when Depp posted an announcement on social media saying the jury “gave me my life again,” celebrities who preferred it included Zoe Saldana, Emma Roberts, Gemma Chan, Taika Waititi, Jennifer Aniston, Henry Golding, Riley Keough and LaKeith Stanfield. Hollywood appeared to have turned on Heard, who claimed she was a sufferer of home abuse by Depp, even earlier than the trial was over.
“Imagine all girls … besides Amber Heard,” Chris Rock cracked throughout a Could stand-up look.
“I’ve little question Johnny will emerge together with his good title and fantastic coronary heart revealed to the world,” Depp’s “Darkish Shadows” co-star Eva Inexperienced posted to Instagram on Could 19.
As for Heard making her personal again again in Tinseltown, one high-placed studio supply instructed Web page Six: “I believe it is going to be very arduous for her.”
Even some folks she as soon as thought-about help have fallen away.
Sources instructed Web page Six that Heard is not near her former boyfriend Elon Musk.
In a witness assertion, Jennifer Howell, a pal of Heard’s youthful sister Whitney Henriquez and her late mother Paige, mentioned that Paige — who died in 2020, at age 63 — had instructed her that Musk was suing the actress over embryos that they had created collectively.
In an announcement seen by Web page Six, Howell, Henriquez’s former employer at charity The Artwork of Elysium, claimed: “Paige instructed me that Amber mentioned Elon was controlling, abusive and that she was in a authorized battle with him over the rights to embryos that they had created collectively. He wished to destroy them, and Amber tried to maintain them to have a child.”
Heard welcomed her daughter Oonagh Paige by way of surrogate in April 2021. Though she has not publicly named the lady’s father, there isn’t a proof that it’s the Tesla tycoon. Musk was unavailable for remark.
The SpaceX boss was additionally named on Heard’s witness record for the trial, however by no means testified. Though sources instructed The Put up that Heard and Musk had some sort of falling out, Musk late final month tweeted of Heard and Depp: “I hope they each transfer on. At their greatest, they’re every unbelievable.”
Throughout the trial, a few of Heard’s former pals testified for her (though James Franco was on the witness list, he didn’t). Her ex-best pal and roommate, Raquel Pennington, mentioned she was “scared” for Heard as she mentioned Heard “typically needed to cowl bruises and accidents to her face with make-up.”
However in her taped deposition, Pennington she and the actress hadn’t spoken in a minimum of six month, having grown aside after a Thanksgiving argument that turned violent.
“I wished to spend extra time with different folks in my life and prioritize different relationships,” Pennington mentioned on the tape that performed in courtroom.
“I wouldn’t take into account her not a pal,” she added. “We don’t communicate. We’re not enemies.”
However this solely prompted Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, to inform the jury on the finish of the trial: “This can be a girl who burns bridges. Her shut pals don’t present up for her. You’ll have observed that nobody confirmed up for Ms. Heard on this courtroom apart from her sister … each different witness who traveled to Virginia for her was a paid knowledgeable.”
Whereas Heard has a small, tight-knit group of lady pals, it’s additionally been some time since she lived in Los Angeles, having moved to a six-acre Mojave Desert estate she purchased in 2019.
Her group consists of her sister, former girlfriend Bianca Butti and Scottish journalist Eve Barlow.
Butti was relationship Heard when the actress turned a mother, though sources mentioned that Heard made the choice to be her daughter’s sole father or mother.
After the decision, the cinematographer wrote on Instagram, “Amber is somebody I’m grateful to name a pal and nobody, who stands as much as communicate the reality ought to be handled like this. My coronary heart goes out to her throughout these tough instances. It doesn’t matter what occurs #istandwithamberheard.”
Barlow, who was banned from the Fairfax, Va., courtroom for allegedly texting and tweeting from the entrance row, tweeted that she would “at all times” have Heard’s again.
Depp was seen this week celebrating his victory while on a concert tour with guitarist Jeff Beck within the UK and has not too long ago been linked to a reunion together with his previous pal, director Tim Burton, for “Beetlejuice 2.”
“Johnny will certainly work once more,” mentioned the studio supply. “Amber can work once more, [but] I’d suppose it is going to be extra the indie route. I’m simply undecided studios need the legal responsibility of working together with her.”
Though Heard is taking day off to be together with her daughter, she is slated to look in two movies: “Run Away With Me,” for which no different solid has been introduced, and “Within the Fireplace,” wherein Heard is probably the most well-known title.
Throughout the trial, Depp testified that it was he who helped win his ex-wife the most important function of her profession, as Mera in Aquaman, however mentioned he later warned the studio about her when he knew issues had been “going to finish up ugly” after their cut up.
In response to the actor, Heard was involved about taking pictures the movie on location in Australia, given her earlier authorized points there. In 2016, she was prosecuted for illegally bringing her canines into the nation. The costs had been in the end dropped, however fearing the studio behind the film, Warner Bros., would nonetheless have reservations about casting her, Depp mentioned he made telephone calls to them on her behalf.
“She requested if I might — I had a multi-film cope with Warner Bros., so we’d been in enterprise collectively, so I knew these folks — communicate to them,” Depp testified. “I made a telephone name, and I spoke to a few higher echelon Warner executives: Kevin Tsujihara, Sue Kroll, Greg Silverman.”
In one other embarrassing second, DC Movies chief Walter Hamada testified that the studio thought-about dropping her from “Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom” on account of her “lack of chemistry” with co-star Jason Momoa (who, this week, liked post-verdict statements from both Heard and Depp on social media).
After the decision, Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft mentioned that Heard would be filing an appeal.
When requested on the “At present” present whether or not Heard has the cash to pay the $10.35 million awarded to Depp, Bredehoft mentioned Thursday: “Oh, no, completely not.”
The high-profile courtroom battle has left the actress hurting for money, based on sources, together with one who additionally positioned the blame on Heard’s previous lavish spending on journey, garments, presents and wine.
A number of sources mentioned the star needed to change authorized illustration and her PR workforce, and is now counting on her householders insurance coverage coverage to cowl the price of her present attorneys within the case.
As The Put up famous this week, sources mentioned the invoice for Heard’s lawyer has mostly been footed by The Travelers Companies beneath phrases of the actress’s insurance coverage coverage.
A vice chairman of the insurance coverage agency, Pamela Johnson, was noticed within the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom with Heard a number of instances all through her trial. Neither Johnson nor Vacationers returned calls.
An onlooker within the courtroom instructed Web page Six: “After the decision, Amber obtained up and stormed off. Her sister Whitney was sitting within the entrance row and she or he obtained up and crossed the barricade and went out together with her.”
One other film insider mentioned of Heard: “Nearly all of folks suppose she has taken benefit of the #MeToo motion and subsequently it’s a harmful route for somebody to rent her. She confirmed no contrition even when issues unravelled in courtroom.”
