NBC has decided to hire Johnny Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, as a legal analyst – a decision that hasn’t sat well with their own staff. Given NBC’s own reporting of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial and the fact that the company is undergoing layoffs, it is understandable that staff would have concerns about her hiring. There is also the fact that their decision to hire her is likely partially because her representation of Depp made her an internet sensation.

TikTok users made Vasquez go viral as they fawned over her and praised her for representing Depp in his defamation case against Heard. Much of the praise surrounding her had little to do with the actual quality of her defense and work, and more to do with the fact that she was representing a powerful man against an alleged victim of abuse. Depp’s rabid fans, who led a smear campaign against Heard and tarnished the #MeToo movement with their hatred and spread of misinformation, quickly latched onto Vasquez and hailed her as a hero. Fans were so blindly enamored by her that when false rumors spread alleging that the married lawyer was in an unethical relationship with Depp, fans actually gleefully supported the idea and even “shipped” the pair on TikTok.

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