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JOHNNY DEPP SAID he has been asked to resign from the Fantastic Beasts film as he criticised the “surreal judgement” against him in his High Court libel case.
The actor said he plans to appeal against the ruling which earlier this week concluded that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard.
The 57-year-old sued The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), over a 2018 article which labelled him a “wife-beater”.
Depp wrote on Instagram: “My resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false.
“My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time.”
He added: “The surreal judgement of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal.”
Depp said he had been “asked to resign by Warner Bros. from my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and I have respected that and agreed to that request”.
He added he would like to thank “everybody who has gifted me with their support and loyalty”.
“I have been humbled and moved by your many messages of love and concern, particularly over the last few days,” he added.
A statement from Warner Bros said: “Johnny Depp will depart the Fantastic Beasts franchise.
“We thank Johnny for his work on the films to date.
“Fantastic Beasts 3 is currently in production and the role of Gellert Grindelwald will be recast.”
The film is due for release in 2022.
Depp brought legal action against NGN over a column by The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton in 2018, which referred to “overwhelming evidence” that the actor attacked Ms Heard, 34, during their relationship.
Wootton asked how Harry Potter author JK Rowling could be “genuinely happy” that Depp had been cast in the latest film in the Fantastic Beasts spin-off franchise amid the allegations by Ms Heard.
In a ruling on Monday, Justice Nicol dismissed the Pirates Of The Caribbean star’s claim, saying NGN had proved what was in the article to be “substantially true”.
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So how long more will we allow these corrupt bastards to practice their “beliefs”
Then listen to the Catholic Church lie as it claims to be pro family.
How is ripping new born babies away from their mothers a family value?
They were bastard children removed from their immoral unmarried mothers and sent to be adopted by ‘real’ families. Back then an unmarried mother and a child was not considered a family. They did the same here with babies being send to be adopted all over the world but Irish American couples paid a lot of money for such babies.
How anyone could stand up for his disgusting cult is beyond me. They did the same here in the laundries and sold the babies to Americans!!! The sooner that cult is gone the world will be a better place. And not only do they protect child rapists they are also child traffickers!!!
My sentiments exactly
SORRY! Do they understand the meaning of the word ?
Catholic church up to no good again I see..
And still there collection baskets will be full this weekend,
The poor brain-washed aul women they rob every Sunday…
Not by me or mine.
What a horrible world this can be…
Seriously – if this was ANY other business/company/group of people, this utter rotten organisation would have been ordered shut down some time ago.
Same thing going on in Spain http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/world/europe/07iht-spain07.html
19 hours ago an article on this website flagged children currently in danger in Ireland. There are now only seven comments, split between understanding the difficulties the professionals face in these situations and anger that children are suffering. In the 4 hours since this story was printed, there are 13 comments here, all very angry about a horrible system and terrible wrongs that were done between the 50s and the 70s on a different continent. All valid comments, all made with passion and concern, I have no problems with them.
However, the lack of reaction to the current Irish story – which we are capable of doing something about – is a story in itself. What will the reports of our childrens generation say about us? Who will apologise for our treatment of the most vulnerable and will our apologies be as acceptable to them as the churchs are to us today?
Apologies are cheap, easy and largely meaningless. If one is truly sorry, one makes amends. These 150,000 grieving women had at least 150,000 babies, some of whom were apparently exposed to the drugs that their mothers were given and are now reported to be linked to cancer. For sure these 150,000 children were exposed to the trauma experienced by their mothers. These 300,000 victims deserve tangible help now. Though the offenses may have been years ago, many of these mothers, we believe, are still suffering; many of these babies, now adults, may be suffering birth trauma or trauma from poor/abusive placements. There is no accounting of these childrens’ fate.
We find it very hard to believe that the head of Catholic Health Australia “became aware of the past practices after the ABC began its investigations.” We strongly suspect that he and other church officials knew of this horror long ago but kept it hidden.
If Catholic officials won’t do what’s right for the health and well being of these 300,000 victims, we urge governmental officials to step in and force them to take responsibility for their decades of callous wrong-doing.
Steven Spaner, SNAP Australia Coordinator [ http://www.snapaustralia.org ], SNAPspaner@gmail.com
David Clohessy, SNAP Director [ http://www.snapnetwork.org ], SNAPClohessy@aol.com
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