Saturday Night Live's parody of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial over the weekend has sparked a backlash online, with social media users accusing the show of trivializing domestic abuse.
Depp, 58, filed a $50 million lawsuit against his ex-wife Heard, 36, after she wrote in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post that she was a domestic abuse survivor.
While Heard didn't name Depp in the article, his lawyers have argued that it was clear she was referring to him. Heard is countersuing for $100 million for nuisance.
The fourth week of the trial concluded on May 5, after Heard's two days of testimony, in which she emotionally alleged that she had been beaten and sexually assaulted by Depp during their ill-fated relationship, which ended in 2016.
For his part, Depp had earlier testified that he, too, had been physically abused by his Rum Diary co-star Heard, who he accused of throwing a large bottle of vodka at him, resulting in injuries that included the severing of part of his fingertip.
Depp and Heard have each denied the other's allegations of domestic abuse.
During Saturday night's installment of the long-running NBC show, cast member Kate McKinnon portrayed MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace.
Joking that the viewers had all tuned into the cable news network because "you had nowhere else to place your anger," McKinnon's Wallace then ran through the biggest headlines currently dominating the news cycle.
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