Johnny Depp Vs Amber Heard Trial | Mufti Abu Layth

uh in other news what's had come through today i had to comment on this i thought it's the johnny depp trial people you know why i this has been so it's been going on for about six weeks now or something and it's really symbolic so johnny depp had has won and mostly so he's been uh he's won the defamation trial and he's been awarded 15 million um that's what amber heard has to pay him and she won a count one of the counter claims where she can claim two million

but she lost all the others and he overall won the trial so why why was this significant you see that this was significant because for a number of reasons on one and i i feel it kind of marked the end of the metoo era so the hashtag metoo era that's where this really boiled up and it was part of that where and i do think that look

this is not too belittle um the struggle of people who of especially women who have gone through any kind of abuse may allah aid them and and deliver swift justice for them i mean but it is equally true that it you know this this thing that there was so that this culture had a kind of reactionary culture had to some extent emerged where any kind of allegation

was just a death sentence a person just makes an allegation and a woman especially if she made any kind of allegation it was just deemed true until um and and and i guess at the extremes you you we were seeing it with celebrities because with the common person who cares you know it's like nobody cares about them so obviously it was happening with them as well but nobody cares about those unfortunate souls so yeah yeah and and i guess a person must

always remember that look never let any enmity lead you to being unjust that always be just this is what allah reminds us that even that even if you have enmity with someone somebody has wronged you doesn't mean all cases are like that it doesn't mean every time uh a person cries something cases do need to be judged by the individual

merits that it's not just because it's a woman it has to be true that's not you know and i think and i think it's really and and what was also interesting with this trial was the the private lives of these celebrities got tracked into the open and they were just unwrapped unpacked and just laid bare it was horrible to i mean all these people envy celebrities they think yeah i want to be a celebrity i want to live

the life of a celebrity and now you've got a glimpse into their lives it's not that great you know you you're actually grateful for your own lives and i think that was something so important that came out of this trial it really showed a realism to the just the the the murky reality that is lived by these huge individuals these multi-millionaires that these phenomenal celebrities and supermodels but

their lives are so and in some cases more bizarrely petty than your common person i mean who the hell does that i mean she will i mean she at one point defecated just took a dump on his bed i mean it's like what is happening [Laughter]

right but i thought that's something very interesting and it's it was just i think it's just a delight that it's really fascinating it's a fascination really to just be able to see this and see the reality of these lives and see that actually these lives are these so-called blessings are actually curses and there's a clip where is it jamie foxx he's speaking about mike tyson he says i called mike tyson and i said how are you doing and he and he does his voice he said i'm

happy i can't replicate it says i'm happy man i'm happy brother so he and he says well okay why are you so happy he says because i haven't got any money i said well why are you so happy if you haven't got any money he says well nobody wants anything from me so i'm just happy and yeah there's a yeah there's lessons all around us