Amber Heard settling defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp could send negative message to all domestic abuse victims. Legal expert told Newsweek that Aquaman star is setting bad example for people who have gone through similar situation from seeking justice.

“Amber Heard was very clear in her statement about why she settled. Heard did not want to prolong process that had already proved very painful,” Carl Tobias said.

“Heard’s experience may lead other survivors of abuse to think very seriously about pursuing similar cases, because of difficulties that she and others have encountered,” Tobias added.

Heard settled libel case with Pirates of Caribbean actor as she will pay him $ 1 million in compensatory damages.

In an Instagram post that actress shared Monday morning, she wrote that agreeing to settlement was “Very difficult decision”. “It’s important for me to say that I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed,” she penned.

“Vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of ways in which women are re-victimized when they come forward. Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to.”–Agencies

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 23 2022

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