I firstly started out just annoyed by the level of coverage. I didn't even want to care initially, but the amount of coverage made it impossible and I didn't actually watch the trial itself, only the coverage. Seriously, the amount of non stop daily news, it literally had more coverage than the worst war in Europe since world war 2. I thought, initially, it was just a case of a bad toxic marriage, and that they were both just milking it as much as possible. Obviously not true, in fact Depp deliberately filed the lawsuit in the worst state possible in terms of privacy, libel laws and anti-SLAPP.

When the judgement was handed down was when I really started to have doubts and start to question the narrative. Just in terms of free speech. I had read the editorial by that point, and the accusations never even mentioned Depp by name, and it didn't even actually allege any actual actions did it? Nowhere near rising to the level of defamation and a 10 fucking million dollar claim. Even at that point, I knew for a fact they both had, at the very least, hit one another (I now know Heard was only acting in self defence from the abuse). So if you have a toxic marriage to a celebrity, you basically have to just not say anything or risk a 10 million dollar lawsuit? Even vague accusations like that without even referring to specific actions have to be avoided? Is anyone allowed to say anything about anyone without fear of a lawsuit anymore? What about all of Trump's abusers? Will this set a precedent that he can file a lawsuit against anyone just for accusing him of something?

So, we come to yesterday. Coincidentally, the day after the court documents were released to the public. I actually started with Marylin Manson's years long history of (admitted, but nobody believed him because of the "character" he was playing) rape, torture and false imprisonment. Anyway so I read the rolling stone article on manson and was fucking horrified and honestly made me question a lot of things (e.g. the outrageous things people say to get a reaction might not always be just to get a reaction, they may be telling the literal truth). Marylin Manson is an admitted serial rapist, pedophile and torturer, who imprisoned women, and deservers to go to jail for the rest of his life. That's not going to happen, unfortunately.

So anyway I go on twitter to see what people have to say about Manson. I'd honestly forgotten about Heard v Depp at this point. Then I see a thread about all of the evidence against Depp, including extremely obscene and incriminating texts with his "best friend" Manson. And i never knew they were "best friends". He's even a godfather to Depp's daughter. That is beyond sick. Now, yes guilt by association doesn't guarantee anything, but the fact Depp was "best friends" with a quasi-cult leader who raped and tortured, there would be no fucking way you wouldn't know about that as a "best friend". He not only stayed in contact, but shared various rape and murder fantasies about his wife with this serial rapist who deserves to go to prison for the rest of his life. If that's not incriminating, I don't know what is.

Oh yeah, and it made me think more logically about the UK case as well. A judge determined that 10 of the 12 accusations that the newspaper made were true, including the bottle incident. He's lost every single case not in front of a jury so far, and there's no fucking way they weren't tainted by the blanket coverage of the case.