Monica Lewinsky’s Depp-Heard verdict: ‘We’re all guilty’ of watching ‘courtroom porn’
nypost.comshe wrote in the Vanity Fair piece, noting how onlookers feel entitled to give opinions on the trial. “No matter whom the jury’s verdict favors — be it defendant Heard or plaintiff Depp — we are guilty.”Her commentary, which was published on Tuesday, shared her two cents on the high-profile case as someone who is no stranger to the ugly side of the media.Lewinsky was once the center of a political sex scandal involving former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, recalling the “cruelty” of the news cycle.“Having been on the receiving end of this kind of cruelty, I can tell you the scars never fade,” she wrote, asking readers to define what is “too far” or “too much” when watching the trial.In the high-profile courtroom spectacle, Depp and Heard went toe-to-toe in a battle of defamation.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star first sued his ex-wife for defaming him with her 2018 Washington Post op-ed, where she claims she suffered from domestic abuse.
Meanwhile, Heard countersued to the tune of $100 million.As the “celebrity circus” trudged on in the courthouse for six weeks, Lewinsky watched the trials with “guilty fascination,” combing through her social feeds or grazing media outlets.But this cherry-picking, which she blames on modern news consumption through apps and platforms, causes people’s consumption of media to be “biased, curated and cursory.”“We have become so attuned to this narrow, cynical cycle of social media encounters that we consider the trial not tragic or pathetic, but as a pure car wreck: accessible, tawdry and immediately gratifying,” she said. “Such scattershot consumption hasn’t allowed for real comprehension.
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