During the Sunday night live broadcast, Depp, 59,appeared as the awards show’s Moon Personin a pre-recorded bit with his face digitally superimposed into the helmet of the floating figure. He told the audience at one point, “And you know what? I needed the work,” while hovering inside the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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Reps for Depp, Heard and the VMA’s did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
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That trial outcome came a year and a half after Depp lost a libel case in the U.K. over a newspaper referring to him as a “wife beater.” The London judge upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true,” and in March 2021, Depp’s attempt tooverturn that decision was overruled.
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After the recent Virginia verdict,Depp said in a statementthat the jury “gave me my life back” and the “best is yet to come” for him. Heard, meanwhile, called it a “setback” for women who speak out. Her sister, who testified on her behalf during the trial and was present in the courtroom when the verdict was read, alsospoke out at the time.
“I still stand with you, sissy. Yesterday, today and tomorrow I will always be proud of you for standing up for yourself, for testifying both here in Virginia and in the UK, and for being the voice of so many who can’t speak to the things that happen behind closed doors,” wrote Henriquez.
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“We knew that this was going to be an uphill battle and that the cards were stacked against us,” she continued. “But you stood up and spoke out regardless. I am so honored to testify for you, and I would do it a million times over because I know what I saw and because the truth is forever on your side.”
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