Defamation trial for Johnny Depp and Amber Heard raises concerns about domestic violence
Ruth Glenn:
You know, I firmly believe, as does this organization, and certainly is up for debate, but I believe that there was a machine behind this, which was — first and foremost was a P.R. and — a P.R. and a strategy and attorneys on Mr. Depp's side that understood that they had to do some of this to ensure that he had the support from his fans, to put it quite simply.
And it's certainly more complicated on that side around strategy.
But, secondly, I think the thing that was most concerning for us here was the ability of — to further control whom we believe is a victim of domestic violence, because we have the expertise and understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence.
And seeing all of the testimony, the evidence, and watching even the courtroom interactions and terms and such that were used, when you're going to make domestic violence a central theme to this, then we should have had domestic violence experts in that courtroom.
So we dealt with the court of public opinion, which was mostly made up of Mr. Depp's fans, and then we dealt with not having domestic violence experts there helping lead the conversation around domestic violence.
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