- [Carly] The internet cannot stop talking
about the major moments from the Johnny Depp
and Amber Heard trial.
- Also what happened to Amber's $7 million
divorce settlement?
All that and so much more in today's show.
What's up for you guys?
It's your girl, Sussan Mourad
- And I'm your host, Carly Henderson
and before we continue, we wanna issue a trigger warning
as we're gonna be discussing claims of domestic abuse.
So please only continue watching
if you feel comfortable doing so.
It's safe to say that America is invested
in the very public court battle
between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
since it has been live streamed for everyone to see
and there have definitely been some pretty
shocking revelations from the whole thing.
Involving dog poop, cry face filters and so much more.
Now, obviously this all stems from a heavy topic
with Johnny suing Amber for defamation over her claims
of domestic abuse from her 2018 oped in the Washington Post
and Amber counter suing him for $100 million.
Of course, they discussed the infamous dog poop incident
that happened in 2016 when Johnny found poop
in his bed and blamed Amber for it.
But Amber blamed it on Boo, Johnny's dog.
- [Woman] Did you commit any kind of prank?
- Absolutely not, absolutely not.
- That would be nasty and then there was a rumor
that Snapchat's crying filter was inspired
by Amber Heard's face crying in court.
- Oh my God, you guys, there is an Amber Heard filter
on Snapchat where no matter what face you actually make
it's a crying face.
- [Carly] Social media users asked, "Is this filter
"a take on Amber Heard's crying face?"
And these snap videos made their way
over to TikTok's for you page with users
showing themselves doing seemingly mundane things
while appearing to have a full on breakdown.
One user even overlay the filter on top of One Direction's
"Night Changes" music video because, you know, the internet.
A Snapchat rep did tell TMZ that there was simply no truth
that the filter was inspired by Amber
and there's no question that allegations of abuse
and assault have affected both of their careers
as movie stars.
Amber previously starred in blockbusters
like "Justice League" and "Aquaman" and she said she hoped
to reprise her role in the sequel
"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom."
But Amber claimed that her part was cut down
after Depp's former lawyers called her abuse allegations
a hoax in 2019.
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Amber revealed, "Without giving any spoilers away,
"they basically took a bunch out of my role."
And Amber said that she has only been able to work
on one small independent film in recent years
and let's get nerdy for a second here.
So this chart that Axios put together
shows the average number of social media interactions
per topic since early April.
The Amber Heard Johnny Depp trial
spawned more online discussion
than Elon Musk buying Twitter, President Joe Biden,
the leaked Supreme Court's decision on abortion,
the Russia Ukraine war, inflation,
and yes, even more than COVID
which is wild considering how much more
some of those other topics would actually
affect people's day to day lives.
Looking at you inflation and COVID go ahead
and see yourself out.
Oh, and some curious fans are going to extreme lengths
to get a front row seat to this whole court battle
telling people that they spent $30,000 in travel expenses
to get to Fairfax, Virginia, where the trial is
and many people camped out in their cars
outside the courthouse as early as 12:45 AM
to wait and try to get a wristband which lets them
into the courtroom.
So there are a lot of things that I could think
of spending $30,000 on like travel, concerts,
following Harry styles around on tour, just tons of stuff
that would make your personal life more enjoyable.
So spending 30 K on this seems like a depressing way
to spend your hard earned in cash.
You know, talking about the impact of this trial,
even here at Clever, this isn't something
that we would normally cover.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard they're huge
but they aren't the typical celebs
that we cover on our channel, but there's no denying
that everyone's eyes are just on this case.
- They sure are and I think no matter who you're siding with
and who you think is telling the truth or not,
the one big takeaway from all of this is how serious
and real domestic violence is for both women and men.
For many survivors the details of this trial
and seeing all the widespread media attention
has been extremely triggering.
So it's important to please be mindful in making comments
on the case online and sharing posts.
Another moment that captured our attention
from the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial was what exactly
happened with Amber's $7 million divorce money.
When Johnny and Amber reached a divorce settlement in 2016,
Amber announced that she was donating
her entire $7 million payout to charity.
She said the money would be split between two organizations
with 3.5 million going to the American
Civil Liberties Union and 3.5 million
to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
During cross examination from Camille Vasquez
on Johnny's legal team, it was put to Amber
that she still had not made the promised donation.
- Sitting here today Miss Heard,
you still haven't donated the $7 million
divorce settlement to charity.
Isn't that right?
- Incorrect, I pledged the entirety of the settlement.
$7 million to charity and I intend
to fulfill those obligations.
- Miss Heard, that's not my question.
- [Sussan] It became clear that Amber was talking
about pledging while Camille was referring
to actual donation and the payment of money.
So Camille made the distinction and put it to Amber again
which incited this now viral response.
- I use pledge and donation synonymous
with one another.
- But I don't.
Miss Heard, I don't use it synonymously.
- That's how donations are paid.
- Miss Heard respectfully.
That's not my question.
- This moment had many people weighing in on Amber's
definition of donate versus pledge
with accusations she deceived the public.
As the questioning continued to intensify,
Camille propositioned that Amber had not paid $3.5 million
of her own money to each of the ACLU
and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles,
to which Amber responded.
- I have not yet.
Johnny sued me.
- This revelation was shocking because Amber had previously
claimed publicly on two occasions that the entirety
of the $7 million had already been donated.
Under oath during her testimony
in Johnny's UK High Court libel case
against the Sun newspaper in 2020
which brought in a new wave of accusations
that she lied under oath.
Also during an appearance on a Danish talk show
in October 2018.
- $7 million in total was donated,
I split it between the ACLU and Children's Hospital
of Los Angeles.
- [Sussan] Circling back on Amber's statement
that she hadn't made the full donation yet
because Johnny sued her, Camille called into question
a timeline of events and evidence that showed
Amber had received the entire $7 million divorce settlement
by February 2018, months before Johnny sued her.
- You had all of the $7 million for 13 months
before Mr. Depp sued you and you chose not to pay it
to the charities you pledged it to.
- I disagree with your characterization of that.
- Interestingly, the money that had been paid
to the charities today involved Elon Musk
who Amber publicly dated in 2017
after her split from Johnny.
The court heard that Amber had donated $1.3 million
to date to the ACLU, $2.2 million short of her pledge.
ACLU's COO told the court that $350,000
was paid by Amber directly.
While $100,000 was paid by Johnny as part
of the divorce settlement money and $500,000
was paid by Elon Musk in her name.
Amber insisted that she fully intends to honor the pledges
and would love for Johnny to stop suing her so she can.
She also claimed that the money Elon paid was additional
and not to form part of her obligation
and that she had planned to make the full donation
over 10 years.
While these details have become
some of the most talked about,
so has Johnny's lawyer, Camille Vasquez
and her cross examination of Amber.
Camille has been receiving praise across the internet
and social media while also gaining a cult following
and I think the most surprising part
about this tense exchange between Camille and Amber
is that Amber believed that pledge and donate
meant the same thing.
- I use pledge and donation synonymous
with one another.
- But I don't.
Miss Heard, I don't use it synonymously.
- Donating is money actually leaving your account
while pledging is more like an intention or promise.
In an everyday conversation the difference
might not be a huge deal, but before the court, under oath
and in TV interviews, thinking of two words
mean the same thing prove to be problematic
for Amber during her cross examination.
Whatever the court decides, I hope Amber does make
that pledge in full when she can.
- I always wondered when celebrities
publicly pledge donations to causes.
Who's actually following up on that?
I think it would be the most selfless
and just respectable to do it in private
and not tell anyone but it's also good PR
and studies have actually shown that celebrity donations
can influence other people to donate too so that's a plus.
However, it's not something that's typically enforced.
There's no donation police so we'll just have to see
what happens when this court battle is over.
- Okay, switching gears for a bit.
It's time for some other big stories.
Taylor Swift is now Dr. Taylor Allison Swift.
Taylor received her honorary doctorate in Fine Arts
from New York University and she was beaming from ear to ear
during this monumental achievement.
Her highly anticipated commencement speech gave us
so many inspiring and entertaining moments like this.
- Learn to live alongside cringe.
No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe,
you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively.
- Cheers to you, Dr. Taylor Swift and to being cringe.
- And Selena Gomez recently mentioned
that she is single and ready for love
and her "Only Murders In The Building"
co-stars, Martin Short and Steve Martin,
reveal that they have been very protective
over Sel's love life.
- She must pass every perspective person through us.
- And so far we haven't liked anybody.
(Selena laughing)
- Kravis has has officially tied the knot
for real this time.
Kourtney and Travis are now husband and wife
in the eyes of the law.
As they officially said their I do's in Santa Barbara.
Kourtney shared these picks to mark the occasion
with the caption, "Till death do us part."
And it looks like there will be a bigger wedding
with the entire Kardashian Barker fam
in Italy in the future.
- And Harry Styles told Apple Music's Zane Lowe
that he feels really lucky to have come up
and dealt with fame alongside his One Direction fan base.
- It's impossible to not, at times I think
everyone experiences this, feel like,
oh everyone else is on the other side of the glass
and I'm on this side of the glass and no one really gets it
and I think having that is like kind of priceless.
- While Doja Cat has been cleaning up during awards season,
if you are wondering if she still has plans
on quitting music, she was asked by E! News
on the red carpet of the Billboard Music Awards
if her saying she was quitting music was a joke.
- It wasn't a joke.
Not to me at the time but I think it's also like
I'm here because I made music
and I wanna make music a again and I'm getting a break
and that break is gonna be me making music which is funny.
I wanna stop music, but I don't.
- So there you have it and thank goodness.
- All right, well that doesn't first show today.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Bye. - Bye.
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