Amber Heard is giving a rare statement.
The Aquaman actress detailed the toll her legal battles with ex-husband Johnny Depp have taken on her life in the new documentary Silenced, which explores how defamation laws have been used against women who have come forward with allegations of abuse.
“This is not about me,” she told director Selina Miles, according to Variety, in the documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 24. “I have lost my ability to speak. I am not here to tell my story. I don’t want to tell my story. In fact, I don’t want to use my voice anymore. That’s the problem.”
Shortly after Heard, 39, filed for divorce from Depp, 62, in 2016, she accused her ex of being “verbally and physically abusive” towards her, which he denied.
Two years later, the Pirates of the Caribbean star sued the U.K.’s The Sun newspaper over a story that labeled him a “wife beater” in reference to Heard. She worked with international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson on her involvement in the trial, which Depp lost in 2020.