Three years after Johnny Depp filed a defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, the case will be heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia on Monday.
Here's a refresher you should know.
How did this happened
Depp and Amber met on the set of "The Rum Diary" in 2009, married in 2015 and were embroiled in a contentious split for months with allegations of bad behavior leveled by both parties.
In 2016 Heard alleged that Depp slit his face after throwing a phone at his Los Angeles home. Depp denied the allegation and was not charged with any crime.
The couple resolved their divorce months later, issuing a joint statement, which read, "Our relationship was extremely passionate and at times unstable, but always bound by love."
In December 2018, Hurd wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post titled, "I spoke out against sexual violence – and faced the wrath of our culture. This must change" in which she wrote that she wanted to "represent domestic abuse". She became a public figure, and I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who spoke."
"Friends and mentors told me I would never work as an actress again - that I would be blacklisted. A movie I was attached to for my role," Hurd wrote. "I had just shot a campaign for two years as the face of a global fashion brand, and the company left me."
Depp's name is not mentioned in the piece.
The suit
The following year Depp filed a $50 million defamation suit against Heard.
Allegations of her trial, while the actor has not been named, "the op-ed was apparently (and other media consistently reports on it) about Ms. Heard's alleged harassment when she publicly spoke to her ex-husband Johnny. Depp (Mr. Depp) of domestic abuse in 2016, when she appeared in court with a clearly battered face and obtained a temporary restraining order against Mr. Depp on May 27, 2016.
Depp's lawsuit also alleges that Heard's allegations caused him financial losses, including being dropped from future "Pirates of the Caribbean" films after leading the franchise for 15 years.
Over the years he has maintained his innocence in abusing Heard and in a 2021 interview with The Sun Hollywood complained that he was being boycotted.
"A man, an actor in an unpleasant and messy situation over the years?" He said "But, you know, I'm headed to where I need to go so that everything can happen ... to light things up."
Hearing response to filing
In 2019, the actress tried to get the lawsuit dismissed.
In an affidavit obtained by CNN and included in Heard's motion to have the case dismissed, she alleged, a year into their relationship, she told the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star to begin abusing drugs and alcohol.
"I was concerned for both of us while he was using it," Hurd said in the filing. "He would become a completely different person, often delusional and violent. We called that version of Johnny 'The Monster.'"
The court detailed several instances of alleged abuse in which Heard claimed Depp hit her, threw bottles, yelled at her, pushed Heard, pulled out pieces of her hair, and at one point strangled her.
In response to the allegations, Depp's attorney, Adam Waldman, told CNN, "Coping with the reality of the evidence requires new lies to sustain themselves."
The motion to dismiss was rejected.
Hurd filed a $100 million defamation suit against Depp in 2020 which is ongoing.
The latest
Over the weekend, Heard posted a note on her verified social media accounts about the upcoming trial that read "I never named [Depp], but wrote about the price women pay for speaking out against men in power." I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case is over, I can move on and so does Johnny.
"I have always maintained the love for Johnny and it pains me so much to live together the details of their past lives in front of the world," she wrote. "At this time, I recognize the continued support I have been fortunate to have received over the years, and in these coming weeks I will depend on it more than ever."