Johnny depp in a recent Christmas post on Instagram he wished fans a “Better future after a tough 2020”. To tell the truth, for the 57-year-old star the year that is about to end – net of the coronavirus – was, more than hard, horribilis. Almost everything to forget. And even the months that will follow the toast of December 31st are, for him, full of clouds.
The actor’s fall revolves all around the nightmare divorce with Amber Heard. The two, who are said goodbye in 2017 between mutual accusations of domestic violence, last July they came face to face in court as part of the trial brought by Depp al Sun who had called him a “wifecaster”.
Three weeks of hearings in which the gruesome background of a marriage based on violence, blood, alcohol, drugs and degradation.
The actor had decided to proceed against the tabloid, as the lawyer David Sherborne explained last July in the final plea, because the “violent” label “destroys his reputation and ends his career in Hollywood”. What had come out of the trial was still an unedifying portrait for Depp, who among other things had admitted to drug abuse (“I use all that exist”) and had told how had managed to squander a fortune (650 million earnings). Even if the star had won the case, the media prophesied at the time, “after all he has heard, it is not certain that he will be able to clean up his reputation to return to the set”.
But the trial sentence, which arrived in early November, has sanctioned the defeat of the star. And the collapse of his career. The case lost against The Sun has dragged into the dust, as in an unstoppable domino effect, the public exhibition of the divo de Pirates of the Caribbean. A few days after the sentence Warner Bros removed Depp from the set of Fantastic Beasts 3. Johnny’s fans have sparked an uproar – between petitions and campaigns of various kinds – but there was no way: the actor, who had started shooting the third film of the saga in London, was forced to give up the clothes of the own character (Grindelwald) to Mad Mikkelsens.
The fact remains that for the star, around Hollywood, there is a very bad air. That doesn’t look set to improve even when Johnny leaves this horrible 2020 behind. In fact, even in the United States there will soon be a lawsuit. After Amber Heard had told about the Washington Post of having been a victim of domestic violence, her ex-husband had accused her of defamation. At stake, in this case (the convocation in the classroom is scheduled for 2021), there is a compensation from 50 million dollars. But now that Depp has lost in London, the road seems to be all uphill.
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