Entertainment attorney Tisha Morris explains why Johnny Depp's legal team tried to introduce nude photos and claims about Amber Heard's past work as an exotic dancer during their defamation trial. The judge ruled the evidence irrelevant and excluded it, blocking what Morris calls an attempt to damage Heard's reputation rather than address the actual defamation claims.
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All right, so let's get into it. There's a lot to get into. I'm going to go through the highlights here. Apparently, according to these documents, there was an effort on Depp's team to introduce nude photographs of Amber Heard and also evidence that she worked as an exotic dancer, maybe even suggesting that she was an escort. So why do you think they wanted to introduce this, and why do you think it wasn't ultimately allowed in?
Well, they clearly wanted to paint a picture of who Amber— um, who they wanted Amber Heard to be, and the court ruled on those that they're irrelevant to the case at hand of defamation. Um, and I think, you know, I think the judge ruled correctly in that case, in that, in that particular instance, um, in excluding those because they aren't relevant. But I think Now we're seeing some of the stuff that Depp's attorneys want to introduce and seeing how, um, well, how they were really just kind of wanting to throw her under the bus, for lack of better words.