Emily Hampshire has apologized for dressing up as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard for Halloween together with a chum following grievance on social media.

The Schitt’s Creek megastar wrote in a statement on Instagram Wednesday, “I want to address what is one of the most thoughtless, insensitive, and ignorant things I’ve ever done. For Halloween, I stupidly thought it would be funny to dress as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.”

She endured, “I am deeply sorry and ashamed for putting something that awful out in the universe. Domestic abuse is never, ever funny. These are real issues with real people and I REALLY regret my actions. In the future I will do better. I’m so sorry.”

Within the since-deleted footage, Hampshire gave the impression to be dressed up because the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, with faux arm tattoos and make-up intended to resemble Depp, future dressed in a tan-striped swimsuit. As for her buddy, she gave the impression to be the Aquaman actress, dressed in a white buttoned-up shirt, together with her pulled again and a tragic glance on her face.

The costumes seemed to painting Depp and Heard from utmost generation’s defamation trial. However fanatics had been fast to name out Hampshire on-line, accusing her of mocking Heard. 

From April to June 2022, Depp and Heard went backward and forward within the court in a extremely publicized defamation trial. This got here nearest Depp filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard nearest she wrote an op-ed in The Washington Submit wherein she known as herself a home abuse survivor. Although she by no means discussed the actor’s title particularly, the tale was once revealed amid headlines in their warm dissolution in 2016.

A Virginia jury ended up awarding Depp $15 million, $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, however the last was once lowered to Virginia’s statutory cap of $350,000.

The trial was once additionally made right into a three-part docuseries on Netflix, which debuted in August.