Emily Hampshire, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.Photo:Slaven Vlasic/Getty;JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty
Slaven Vlasic/Getty;JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty
Schitt’s Creekactress Emily Hampshire has issued an apology for dressing up with a friend asJohnny DeppandAmber Heardfor Halloween.
On Tuesday, the 42-year-old actress, who played Stevie Budd on the sitcom, posted the costumes on her Instagram. While Hampshire deleted the photos from her feed,TMZpublished the pictures Wednesday, showing the Depp-Heard costumes.
The friends wore costumes to resemble the former couple’s outfits from their highly-publicized 2022 defamation trial. Hampshire is seen wearing a beige pinstriped suit with makeup to imitate Depp’s facial hair and tattoos, while her friend wore a ruffled button down, black skirt, and sheer black tights to recreate one of Heard’s trial outfits.
In addition to the costumes, the friends posed with props that reference salacious moments from the trial including, a bottle of wine and a prop of fake poop.
Hampshire wrote anapology post on Wednesdaythat read: “I want to address what is one of the most thoughtless, insensitive, and ignorant things I’ve ever done.”
She continued, “For Halloween, I stupidly thought it would be funny to dress as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. I am deeply sorry and ashamed for putting something that awful out in the universe.”
“I am deeply sorry and ashamed for putting something that awful out in the universe," she added. “Domestic abuse is never, ever funny.”
“These are real issues with real people and I REALLY regret my actions," Hampshire concluded. “In the future I will do better. I’m so sorry.”
In June 2022, a Virginia jury found thatHeard, 37, did defame Depp, 60. This verdict followed a contentious trial, which centered on a 2018Washington Postop-edHeard wrote referencing former claims of domestic violence from Depp.
After two days of deliberation on June 1, 2022, the jury originally awarded Depp $15 million in damages, which was then reduced to $10 million. Heard was awarded $2 million in damages. After Heard appealed, the pair settled six months later in December 2022. Heard paid Depp $1 million.
Johnny Depp testifies in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse; Amber Heard waits before the jury said that they believe she defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp, while announcing split verdicts in favor of both her ex-husband Johnny Depp and Heard on their claim and counter-claim in the Depp v. Heard civil defamation trial.STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images; EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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Since the trial,Heard and Depp have moved onwith their lives.
“[Heard] has new energy and is focused on things that she loves,” a source told PEOPLE, adding that theAquamanstar is “doing much better” now that she lives in Spain. “She just had to get out of the U.S. It felt like too much chaos."
As for Depp, he “feels incredibly lucky” to be acting and playing music, and he has officially “closed the chapter” on the legal battle with Heard, according to a separate insider.
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source: people.com
