Celebrity Justice

I have no faith in finding justice within the American legal court system.

Nonetheless, seeing & hearing evidence and witness testimonies regarding those who are seeking justice intrigues me.

Moreso, I believe doing this when it pertains to well-known celebrities equips & empowers me to be more discerning and capable of offering something of value when discussion surrounding these very public figures are raised in my presence.

The following celebrities are some of the people regarding whom I have (to some degree) personally investigated certain matters of legal allegations.

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni & Ryan Reynolds

I started paying a little attention to co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in 2024 shortly after their movie It Ends with Us was released.

I had seen the movie, but I was kind of put off by it given its unexpected sexual nature. (And I didn’t realize it was going to be about domestic violence.)

While I saw a bit of media buzz surrounding the film’s cast & director that summer (and I unknowingly stepped into some of the soon-to-be real-life legal drama by watching the Blake Lively interview by Kjersti Flaa), I didn’t pay much attention to the chatter — that is, until late December 2024 & early January 2025 when everything blew up.

You can read my documentation of this case and personal perspective as I followed the unfolding of this legal drama in real time. And you can see what good I see is coming from following this case.

Johnny Depp & Amber Heard

Having paid no attention to any of the legal drama between once-wedded actors, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard at the time it was all happening, I was clueless on the matter.

But then in 2024, given all the public attention their legal battles had received, I began to look into the more recent court case that took place in Virginia in 2022.

At first, I watched the Netflix documentary series Depp v Heard. But then, wanting a more comprehensive and accurate telling of events, I sought out and watched most of the 2022 defamation trial recorded on YouTube. I found it to be very insightful.

Michael Jackson

While I heard a lot of negative buzz in the media surrounding Michael Jackson back in the early-to-mid 1990’s, I paid no attention to it.

But in 2024 I started wondering what the truth was regarding the terrible allegations made against the man when I kept hearing Andy Signore from Popcorned Planet talk repeatedly about his personal desire to make a documentary on the pop singer icon.

In January 2025 I eventually heard Andy highly recommend an already-existent documentary called Square One: Michael Jackson. So, I watched it, and now I also highly recommend it.

See what other truths I’ve come to learn.

[This page was written by Carrie (not Kelly) and last updated on 5/9/25.]