Amber Heard opens up on a hard year

Amber Heard has exposed her experiences this season, telling: "Nothing could have prepared me for 2020." In a UK exclusive interview, the star explained how her new TV series, based on a Stephen King novel, forced her to ask questions about being faced with "unbelievable circumstances and incredible adversity, and everything being at risk".

Heard, who plays among the survivors of the outbreak, says regardless of the bizarre timing, nothing could have prepared her for the truth of 2020 - a year where she has faced many challenges.

The 34-year-old actress became headline news this summer when she appeared as The Sun's star witness in her ex-husband Johnny Depp's high-profile libel case against the newspaper. In November, Judge Justice Nicol ruled that the tabloid's report on allegations that Depp was violent towards Heard was "substantially true".

At the moment, Heard cannot say an excessive amount of about how exactly relieved and vindicated she must feel, as Depp has put on appeal the judgment, and is also suing her in the US over another Washington Post article written 2 yrs ago, reports   Sky News.

If the Virginia trial goes ahead (it's currently scheduled for May 2021), both will face the media circus all over again. Heard tells: "Nothing could have prepared me for 2020, let's face it. I don't believe I'm alone in saying that. I don't think anything could have prepared me."

In a year which has seen havoc on film and TV sets all over the world, putting a stop to many production, The Stand is "timely", she says, given that they managed to wrap just in the nick of time.

"We stopped filming towards the end of March, luckily it had been by the end of filming, but nonetheless I had to go do reshoots later when things began to open back up again, so it is ironic that we had to avoid filming on our show about a global pandemic and a power struggle of good and evil, and a government and society which will turn off after a pandemic… before one. It's really interesting timing."