Amber Heard has not been fired from her role as Mera in ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’, contrary to a report that had gone viral saying that the actress had been axed, says ‘Variety’. A spokesperson for Heard said in a statement to Variety, “The rumour mill continues as it has from day one — inaccurate, insensitive and slightly insane.”

Heard previously played the key role of Mera in the first ‘Aquaman’, a 2018 superhero film based on a DC Comics character of the same name, as well as appearing in ‘Justice League’ and the reconfigured ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’.

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Heard’s star power, to quote ‘Variety’, has been muddied in recent months as a result of a very public defamation trial, in which her ex-husband Johnny Depp sued her for a 2018 ‘Washington Post’ column, which ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’ said had implied that he was physically abusive to her.

The verdict left Heard ordered to pay Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages, given that the jury decided his reputation and career had been damaged as a result of the publication.

During the trial, notes ‘Variety’, social media heavily favoured Depp over Heard painting him as a folk hero and her as a liar, which led to countless memes and TikTok videos mocking her testimony.

With IANS inputs