A Glasgow journalist has been the “new rock” in Amber Heard’s life throughout her ongoing libel trial in opposition to Johnny Depp.
Eve Barlow has been along with the actress at court docket all through the $50 million proceedings, and even discovered herself on the centre of the drama at one level when she was chucked out for tweeting in entrance of the decide.
The 36-year-old hails from Giffnock, within the southside of Glasgow, and is a former deputy editor of NME who now lives in LA.
She’s been noticed out and about together with her good pal, Aquaman star Amber, and her new child, Oonagh, and she or he hasn’t been shy about making her emotions on the excessive profile authorized case recognized.
The Mail studies associates say the pair have shaped a robust bond not too long ago, with the Scot commonly sitting together with her well-known pal’s authorized staff on the entrance benches of the court docket.
Web page Six studies they've been “inseparable”.
One supply, a pal of the 2, advised the Mail: ”Eve has been an enormous help to Amber throughout the trial. She is an open particular person and has spoken proudly about their relationship.”
Barlow has been noticed on the Virginia court docket all through the trial and commonly tweets about what Heard goes via.
She obtained into hassle from the decide final week when she was discovered to be texting and tweeting from the entrance row of the court docket, and was requested to depart.
Web page Six studies, in line with court docket transcripts, Decide Azcarate stated: "She was tweeting stay from my courtroom … and I do know the deputies took her out as a result of she was texting. That’s in opposition to the court docket order. Ms. Barlow will not be coming again into the courtroom throughout this trial.”
Eve has proven her help to her pal on her social media channels, the place she’s obtained a whole lot of 1000's of followers - with 46,000 on Instagram and 49,000 on Twitter alone.
In a single Tweet, she stated: "The horrible reality is that folks love lifeless victims greater than dwelling ones. Persons are mad that Amber Heard survived.”
She has additionally publicly blasted ladies who help Depp within the authorized battle, and has stated on Twitter they're pushed by “envy” and their “personal low self-worth”.
She stated: “It’s straightforward for ladies with low shallowness to hate AH [Amber Heard] or justify their prejudice in the direction of archetypal female power/magnificence by denying their envy of it,
“They understand an afforded energy that’s actually a fantasy, and excuse their very own inefficiency at being resilient in opposition to misogyny.”
When she was 28, Eve moved to LA after seven years at NME. She needed a change and has since stated it was “among the best choices” she ever made.
Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for defamation over a 2018 opinion piece she wrote for the Washington Put up about surviving home violence.
Depp claims his ex fabricated abuse allegations in an try to attain an enormous divorce settlement, which has broken his profession.
Heard, who was married to Depp from 2015 - 17, is adamant she advised the reality and has countersued Depp for $100 million.
After shifting to LA, Barlow’s profession went from power to power and she or he was quickly getting bylines within the likes of New York Journal, Pitchfork and the Los Angeles Instances, and she or he interviewed stars like Billie Eilish, Liam Gallagher, Sinead O’Connor and Alanis Morissette.
She’s a self-confessed and proud ‘zionist’ on Twitter who commonly speaks out about anti-semitism.
Barlow’s dad, George, is a GP who was made an MBE for healthcare.
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