Paul McCartney has shown support for Johnny Depp, amid his legal battle with Amber Heard, by playing a short video of him during a concert.

McCartney played the clip at Orlando stop of his ‘Got Back’ tour while performing his track ‘My Valentine.’ TMZ posted a video showing McCartney strumming along to the song before an image of Depp popped up on the large screen. The music clip for the song features Depp and Natalie Portman, however, during  McCartney’s previous Freshen Up Tour in 2018, he didn’t play it.

Depp and McCartney are close friends, and the latter even cameoed in Depp’s most famous movie, Pirates of the Caribbean.

Depp is currently embroiled in a very public legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor is suing his ex for defamation after an op-ed by her was published in The Washington Post that accused him of sexually assaulting her.

Heard then filed a counterclaim against Depp’s libel lawsuit that  accused him of allegedly orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her and describing his own lawsuit as a continuation of “abuse and harassment.”

The general public’s response has been largely supportive of Depp, while countless offensive memes circulating of Heard online. Meanwhile, In Berlin, a street art piece depicting Heard as Pinnochio has recently emerged.

A petition to get Heard removed from Aquaman 2 has also reached over 4 million signatures. The petition is quickly becoming one of the top signed on Change.org and has increased by over 1 million signatures since we last wrote about it.

Below is the statement that accompanies the petition.

“Amber Heard has been exposed as a domestic abuser by Johnny Depp. In his $50 million lawsuit, Johnny Depp describes many incidents of domestic abuse that he suffered at the hands of his (then) wife Amber Heard, including one incident where she punched him twice in the face and another where she shattered his finger with a vodka bottle, and his finger had to be surgically reattached. He will bear the scar from that for the rest of his life.

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