Johnny Depp confirms appeal against UK libel ruling

Johnny Depp confirms appeal against UK libel ruling

LONDON: Hollywood star Johnny Depp on Friday confirmed he will appeal against a UK court ruling that upheld claims he was violent towards his ex-wife Amber Heard.

“The surreal judgement of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal,” he wrote on Instagram in a post dated from London.

On Monday, the 57-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean actor lost a libel lawsuit against the publishers of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, which had called him a “wife beater”.

Judge Andrew Nicol dismissed Depp’s claim after three weeks of…