Drew Barrymore apologizes for ‘making mild’ of Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial

Drew Barrymore is apologizing for “making mild” of the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard defamation trial.

Whereas many celebrities have weighed in on the exes’ trial — going down over the previous few weeks in Fairfax, Va., and streaming on-line for all to see with wild accusations aplenty — the Drew Barrymore Present host has been criticized for feedback on her present final week.

“It is like one layer of loopy, it is a seven-layer dip of madness,” Barrymore stated whereas discussing the present with visitor Anthony Anderson on Friday. “I do know that these are two folks’s actual lives and I do know what it is prefer to have your life put out in public. I perceive all the emotions, however they’re really providing up this data that no one needed to know. That is loopy!”

On the middle of the case, nonetheless, are mutual home abuse claims — and really critical ones. Depp, who’s suing Heard over her 2018 Washington Publish op-ed stating that she’s “a public determine representing home abuse,” testified that she abused him — not the opposite approach round — on many events, together with throwing a glass liquor bottle at him resulting in his fingertip being severed. Heard’s lawyer stated in opening remarks that along with being abused by Depp throughout their four-year relationship, she was sexually assaulted.

In Barrymore’s video apology, posted to Instagram on Sunday, she stated, “It has come to my consideration that I’ve offended folks with making mild of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and for that, I simply wish to deeply apologize and admire everybody who spoke out as a result of this generally is a teachable second for me and the way I transfer ahead and the way I conduct myself.”

She continued, “I generally is a extra considerate and higher particular person shifting ahead as a result of all I wish to do is be an excellent particular person and I very a lot admire the depth of this and I’ll develop and alter from it. And I thank everybody for serving to me develop alongside the best way and educating me. Thanks.”

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Criticism of Barrymore’s Depp-Heard trial feedback additionally included that she mentioned the subject with Anthony Anderson, who has confronted earlier sexual assault allegations. Anderson has maintained his innocence and was by no means convicted.

Depp is suing his ex-wife for $50 million and Heard is countersuing. The trial, which is streaming everywhere in the web, outlines their quite a few mutual allegations of abuse towards one another. They each declare to have misplaced work hundreds of thousands of income from the mutual defamation.

Whereas the crux of the case is critical, the trial has flung open the door into their lives along with points at hand additionally together with whether or not Heard defecated in Depp’s mattress, amongst different outrageous claims.

It is had many well-known folks weighing in, together with Howard Stern calling it a “catastrophe” and saying Depp overacted on the witness stand. Joe Rogan referred to as Heard a “loopy girl.”