Amber Heard 'Fighting Back' Against Johnny Depp, Accuses Ex-Husband Of 'Smear Campaign'

Amber Heard is fighting back against Johnny Depp with a $100 million countersuit accusing her ex-husband of initiating a smear campaign against her.

The “Aquaman” star wants Depp’s $50 million lawsuit against her thrown out from a court in Virginia in an Aug. 9 filing. Heard is seeking twice the amount her ex-husband sought from her in his defamation suit.

In the documents, Heard alleged that Depp and his camp “orchestrated a false and defamatory smear campaign” after he filed a suit against her.

The actress accused Depp in her counterclaim of using “dozens if not hundreds” of social media accounts that were made “specifically for the purpose of targeting” her. The documents even suggested that his attorney, Adam Waldman, has ties with Russians who were capable of organizing such attacks.

The accounts were created to damage Heard and her career “without being directly traceable to Mr. Depp,” the papers said.

Heard also alleged that the “Fantastic Beasts” actor “initiated, coordinated, overseen and/or supported and amplified” petitions calling for her axing from “Aquaman” and from her gig as a L’Oreal spokesperson.

“This stream of false and defamatory accusations against Ms. Heard is all an attempt to ruin her life and career, simply because she was a victim of domestic abuse and violence at the hands of Mr. Depp, and had the audacity and temerity to finally come forward to end [it],” the documents said.

According to the papers, the counterclaim is Heard’s way of “fighting back.”

Prior to this, Depp filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife over her 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post in which she alleged that she was a victim of abuse, though she did not mention his name.

Meanwhile, the jury trial for Depp’s lawsuit against Heard was supposed to start in January next year, but in legal documents filed Aug. 21, he requested for it to be pushed back to “sometime between March and June 2021” because of his “Fantastic Beasts” obligations.

Depp and Heard earlier faced off in the July trial for the actor's lawsuit against tabloid The Sun and its publisher over a 2018 article that referred to him as a “wife-beater.”