Schitt’s Creek star apologises for Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Halloween costume
Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire has apologised and says she is “ashamed” to have dressed up as warring exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard for Halloween.
Hampshire says she is “deeply sorry” for dressing up as Depp while a friend wore a Heard costume. It came after the Hollywood couple were engaged in a lengthy legal dispute.
In a post on Instagram, the Canadian actress said: “I want to address what is one of the most thoughtless, insensitive, and ignorant things I’ve ever done. For Halloween, I stupidly thought it would be funny to dress as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
“I am deeply sorry and ashamed for putting something that awful out in the universe. Domestic abuse is never, ever funny.
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“These are real issues with real people and I REALLY regret my actions.”
Hampshire concluded the statement promising to “do better” in the future, before adding: “I’m so sorry.” The original Instagram post has since been deleted.
Pirates Of the Carribean star Depp was awarded $10.3 million – around £8 million – in damages last year following a high-profile defamaton case in the US. The couple were married from 2015 through to 2017.
But the 60-year-old sued Aquaman star Heard over an article she penned in the Washington Post a year later. She made a series of accusations against the actor.
The US case came after Depp’s drawn-out UK libel claim against News Group Newspapers (NGN) – the owner of The Sun – over allegations that he was violent and abusive towards his ex-wife. After a 16-day trial the judge ruled the content of the article was proven to be “substantially true”.
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