Countdown star Rachel Riley has sparked a backlash from Twitter customers after sharing her views on the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial on the social media platform.
Rachel, 36, weighed in on Wednesday by calling Depp a “monster” and arguing that “nobody of their proper thoughts may defend this man”.
The presenter made the feedback as she quoted a tweet from NataliePage31 which learn: “In case you are condoning this remedy of victims you might be serving to to make sure that abusers are allowed to proceed.
“After 12 beatings being proved by #AmberHeard together with one which lasted 3 DAYS, she ought to be capable to say ‘I survived home abuse’ with out a $100m bounty on her head”.
Rachel wrote: “This thread, 1000 occasions over. There has already been a judgement (so detailed it’s 129 pages) exhibiting Depp to be a monster."
She shared a screenshot of one in every of Johnny’s messages proven in proof, including: “How so many individuals can assist him abuse his sufferer now's utterly sickening”.
However Twitter customers had been fast to reply and share their very own views on the trial, with many strongly disagreeing with Rachel’s feedback, experiences The Specific.
“Nice job Rachel, you’ve confused an offended textual content about authorized revenge on a violent partner for proof that Depp is the unhealthy man,” one Twitter consumer replied, including: “Stick with math”.
One other stated: “For us DV (home violence) survivors, that is a fully INSULT to ALL victims of DV or any form of abuse.”
A 3rd stated the presenter was “spectacularly out of her depth”, whereas many others posted their very own hyperlinks to latest developments within the trial of their defence of Johnny Depp.
Regardless of the backlash Rachel doubled down on her feedback, linking to the judgement for the libel lawsuit that Depp misplaced towards The Solar newspaper two years in the past over an article that referred to as him a “spouse beater”. The allegations made by Heard had been discovered on the time to be “considerably true”.
“I can solely think about anybody defending him has not learn this judgement, and hopes nobody else has both,” Rachel wrote on Twitter. “Right here’s the hyperlink. Nobody of their proper thoughts may defend this man”.
She went on to say to a different Twitter consumer: "There’s no such factor as an ideal sufferer, and in home abuse circumstances the perpetrator will usually use each tactic at their disposal to muddy waters, humiliate, management and additional abuse their victims publish separation. It’s horrific."
AnissaCMTaylor was one of many Twitter customers who strongly disagreed with Rachel, as she posted a sequence of tweets replying to the Countdown star.
She started: "[I've] learn the judgement. Learn the attraction. Heard the audios. Seen the images. Learn the texts. Learn the LAPD testimony. Watched the LAPD physique cam footage.
"Know concerning the charity lies. Do not consider her. Not as a result of it is Johnny Depp, however as a result of the proof factors to her because the abuser.
"Decide Azcarate additionally dominated the UK proceedings, of which Amber was not a celebration so did not have her proof examined the identical method as if she was a celebration, unfair & did not enable Amber's try to make use of it to dismiss the Fairfax proceedings.
"One among her many makes an attempt to have it dismissed. It ought to be famous that Justice Nicol determined that Amber Heard couldn't have thrown objects at Johnny as a result of she was in her Pyjamas.
"That is an illogical determination. He stated she could not be a gold digger as a result of she had donated her settlement to charity. This has been proven false."
Nonetheless, different social media customers supported the presenter, with one consumer saying: "100% agree with @RachelRileyRR. However the legions of insane Depp followers do not see something apart from their blinkered world view."
Depp is about to conclude his testimony within the $50 million libel case towards Amber Heard this week.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star is suing his ex-wife for defamation over an article she wrote in 2018 in The Washington Publish, which his attorneys say falsely implies that he bodily and sexually abused her.
Heard is counter-suing Depp for $100 million, with the case anticipated to final round six weeks.
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