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How Johnny Depp escaped being cancelled: Inside the actor's big screen return as he unveils a striking  new look - and the unexpected way the Justin Baldoni drama has helped his cause


It is three years since Johnny Depp and Amber Heard delivered one of Hollywood's most bitter court showdowns - but it seems the actor has been plotting his Hollywood comeback.

The televised trial in 2022 turned into a circus with Heard decried by some as a conniving liar and Depp the saintly victim, while her supporters argued it was a dark day for the #MeToo movement and that it would put off other women from reporting domestic violence. But despite the drinking, drug use and toxicity laid bare in court, the actor, 61, remained the face of Dior Sauvage and rather than being cancelled, he is making a Hollywood comeback in the action thriller blockbuster Day Drinker next year. When the New York Times published a bombshell report in December that Blake Lively was suing Baldoni for harassment, a key element was that the director had hired Depp's former publicist Melissa Nathan to allegedly mastermind a smear campaign against the Gossip Girl star.

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