The video resurfaced during the defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
Dakota Johnson has opened up about a viral video claiming she noticed Johnny Depp's injured finger while promoting a movie in 2015.
The brief clip resurfaced in April when Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, were in the midst of their legal battle, in which Depp sued Heard for $50 million for defamation.
In court, Depp claimed his ex-wife cut her finger with a vodka bottle during an argument a few months after their February 2015 wedding.
Posted to TikTok, the clip in question claims that Johnson was looking at Depp's injury during the media broadcast of the crime drama film Black Mass.
In a new interview, the Fifty Shades of Gray star responded to the popularity of the video and seemed confused when some social media users linked her to the legal story.
"I was like, 'For God's sake, why? Why am I involved in this?'” she told Vanity Fair's Britt Hennemuth, as she shook her head.
The actress then claimed that she did not remember the moment and that she did not want to be involved in the story in any way.
“I don't remember that at all, but please get me out of this,” she continued. “Don't let this go any further. Can you imagine, oh my gosh, if I were called to the witness stand?
Johnson, who will star in a film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, expressed her bewilderment at the way the trial was available "as a show." (At the time of the interview, the trial had not yet concluded.)
She said: "I can't believe people are watching it like it's a show. It's like it's a courtroom drama and my heart breaks. It's completely insane."
“Humans are so weird, ca----. The internet is a wild, wild place.”
On June 2, Depp won his defamation case against Heard, with a jury awarding him $15 million in damages. The jury also awarded Heard $2 million for part of her own counterclaim (because Depp's lawyer had called her abuse allegations against her ex-husband a hoax).
