Johnny Depp kävi julkisesti oikeutta ex-vaimonsa Amber Heardin kanssa, ja kummankin maine sai melkoisen kolauksen julkisesta käräjöinnistä. Myös molempien ura on kovasti muuttunut käräjöinnin seurauksena.
Johnny Depp on hiljakseen alkanut taas ilmaantua isompiin tuotantoihin. The Timesille Depp kuvaili itseään testinukeksi #MeToo-kampanjalle ("crash test dummy for #MeToo").
Depp sanoi myös, että hänen paluunsa näyttelemään johtuu pakosta. Jos hän voisi häipyä, hän tekisi niin.
"I'll tell you what hurts. There are people, and I'm thinking of three, who did me dirty. Those people were at my kids' parties. Throwing them in the air. And, look, I understand people who could not stand up [for me] because the most frightening thing to them was making the right choice. I was pre-#MeToo. I was like a crash test dummy for #MeToo. It was before Harvey Weinstein. And I sponged it, took it all in. And so I wanted from the hundreds of people I've met in that industry to see who was playing it safe. Better go woke!"
"I didn't go anywhere --- if I had the chance to split I would never come back."