Last week Johnny Depp's testimony in his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard took over the news cycle, with Fox News covering the proceedings live hours for on end. During his time on the stand Depp refuted Heard's allegations of domestic abuse and went into details about the ways that his mother belittled him as a child, as if to paint his relationship with Heard as a continuation of a cycle of being victimized.
Wondering why Depp and Heard's famously acrimonious battle has drawn such a spotlight at a time when the public has so many other worries, including a war, an investigation into an attempted insurrection and rising inflation, fails to acknowledge the obvious: People love watching the rich and famous go scorched earth on each other, especially when one of them spent years at the top of the heap.
