{"id":2248896,"date":"2026-01-24T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2248896"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:17:10","slug":"amber-heard-returns-in-sundance-doc-about-women-silenced-by-defamation-suits-recalls-johnny-depp-trial-i-didnt-understand-it-could-get-so-much-worse-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amber-heard-returns-in-sundance-doc-about-women-silenced-by-defamation-suits-recalls-johnny-depp-trial-i-didnt-understand-it-could-get-so-much-worse-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard Returns in Sundance Doc About Women Silenced by Defamation Suits, Recalls Johnny Depp Trial: \u2018I Didn\u2019t Understand It Could Get So Much Worse For Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amber Heard<\/a> makes an unexpected appearance in a timely new documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, about accused men weaponizing defamation lawsuits to silence women speaking out about abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cSilenced<\/a>,\u201d playing in the world cinema category at the annual festival, bowed on Saturday afternoon from director Selina Miles<\/a> and international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson<\/a>. The film follows numerous women, including a journalist, who were impeded in their search for justice thanks to nine-figure defamation suits.<\/p>\n

Robinson<\/a> assisted Heard in her participation in a 2018 lawsuit filed by Heard\u2019s ex-husband Johnny Depp<\/a>, against British newspaper The Sun. The paper ran a story criticizing Depp\u2019s casting in the Warner Bros.<\/a> \u201cFantastic Beasts\u201d film franchise, citing accusations of domestic violence brought by Heard. Depp sued the paper for libel and Heard was crucial to the publication\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n

Heard agreed to sit for an interview in \u201cSilenced<\/a>,\u201d the first film…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amber Heard makes an unexpected appearance in a timely new documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, about accused men weaponizing defamation lawsuits to silence women speaking out about abuse. \u201cSilenced,\u201d playing in the world cinema category at the annual festival, bowed on Saturday afternoon from director Selina Miles and international human rights lawyer Jennifer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2248897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2248896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amber-Heard-Returns-in-Sundance-Doc-About-Women-Silenced-by.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248898,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248896\/revisions\/2248898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}