“It’s all very sad to me,” Gayle King said of the ongoing Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial. Hitting the red carpet at The Hollywood Reporter’s Annual Most Powerful People in New York Media event, King told ET of the televised trial, “I don’t know how anybody wins in that case. I really don’t.”
King’s “CBS Mornings” cohosts, Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil, were also on hand and were likewise confused by the live-streamed nature of the legal drama. Dokoupil theorized that the defamation case has become the biggest media courtroom spectacle since O.J. Simpson’s trial “because no one’s been quite crazy enough to make it all televised.” As Dokoupil added, “Johnny Depp fought for this, remember. I don’t know why … And we’ll be talking about it yet again tomorrow, along with everybody else in America.”
According to IndieWire, Heard and her legal team allegedly tried to prevent the trial from being televised, while Depp’s team did not make light of the situation. However, cameras or not, it seems as if Heard and Depp’s issues transcend the television screen. As Depp testified when asked the reason he sued Heard for defamation (via Vanity Fair), he said, “It was the only time that I was able to speak and use my own voice.”
Nicki
