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29th Aug 2022

Johnny Depp makes surprise cameo appearance as ‘moonman’ at MTV VMAs

April Curtin

The audience went wild as the actor’s face appeared above them

Audience members at the VMAs got a rather strange surprise when Johnny Depp made a cameo appearance…sort of.

MTV’s Video Music Awards took place in front of a live audience in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday night. And there were a number of standout moments that took place throughout the evening.

FAIRFAX, VA - JUNE 1: Actress Amber Heard, right, and her sister Whitney Heard, second left, depart the Fairfax County Courthouse on June 1, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia. The jury in the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard case awarded Depp $15 million in damages to his career over an op-ed Heard wrote in the Washington Post in 2018. (Photo by Rod Lamkey/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)
Actress Amber Heard, right, and her sister Whitney Heard, second left, depart the Fairfax County Courthouse on June 1, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia (Image: Getty)

The Aquaman actor is seeking an appeal against the decision. A spokesperson for the 36-year-old suggested her team are confident a different result could come out of the appeal, given that “so much new evidence has come to light”.

Earlier in August, thousands of pages of documents filed in the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were unsealed, revealing several sensational claims that both sides tried to get presented to the jury. The documents included alleged text conversations between Depp and Marilyn Manson, who is accused of sexual abuse and grooming by a number of women, including Westworld actress and former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, who he is suing for defamation.

Depp’s team also wanted to tell the jury about her “brief stint as an exotic dancer years before she met Mr. Depp,” according to Heard’s lawyers. They claimed this was an attempt by the Pirates of the Caribbean star to suggest his ex-wife had at one time been an escort.

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