I’ve watched enough reality television (I blame the pandemic) to understand that toxic relationships are all too common. But no episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians or Selling Sunset comes close to the trial over actor Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.

Depp sued Heard in 2019, alleging that she falsely accused him of domestic abuse in a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in which she made references to the past abuse she had suffered. She did not name him directly, but Depp said the implication was obvious.