Natalie Barr and David Koch call Amber Heard’s Today interview ‘weird’

Sunrise hosts Natalie Barr and David “Kochie” Koch have been slammed online following a “bizarre” report about Amber Heard’s upcoming Today interview.

Sunrise hosts David ‘Kochie’ Koch and Natalie Barr have come under fire for an interview with US commentator and noted Amber Heard critic Cooper Lawrence.

Lawrence, who has savaged Amber Heard on the morning show in the past, was again enlisted to discuss Heard’s upcoming US Today interview, of which a snippet was released today.

During the Sunrise interview, the radio personality took several swipes at the Aquaman star, accusing her of trying to continue a “toxic relationship” with her ex-husband Johnny Depp, despite Heard initiating divorce proceedings against Depp back in 2016.

Asked about the footage of Heard’s upcoming interview, which sees the 36-year-old admit she has “so much regret” surrounding her marriage to Depp while standing by her abuse allegations, Lawrence accused her of “lying again”.

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During the Sunrise interview, Kochie and Nat Barr agreed with Lawrence that Heard’s upcoming interview seemed ‘weird’. Picture: Channel 7.

“I think she’s on the ‘you need to listen to me tour’,” Lawrence mused of Heard’s comments from her sit down with Today’s Savannah Guthrie.

“Yet she has these awkward moments that she had during the trial where you’re kind of like ‘Wait, are you lying again?’ It’s like she can’t get her own story straight that she memorised for this interview, and she’s not even under oath.”

Lawrence, who has a PhD in Psychology, according to her website, went on to directly reference Heard’s comment that Depp had successfully convinced the jury due to his acting prowess, remarking that “he’s the man who convinced the world that he has scissors for fingers”.

“I mean the thing is, we know that Johnny Depp doesn’t have fingers that are scissors, we also don’t think that he was once a real pirate. The whole thing is really odd and really weird and I'm trying to figure out what her intention was here,” she said to laughs from the hosts.

Elsewhere, Barr asked whether Heard could be sued for defamation again, given the abuse allegations from the trial have been repeated publicly.

Amber Heard has given her first interview since the trial on NBC's Today Show.

US commentator Cooper Lawrence has slammed a promo snippet of the interview.

It’s not the first time Lawrence has been interviewed on Sunrise.

Depp was awarded $14.4 million (AUD) in damages after the jury ruled that Heard had defamed him by referring to herself as “public figure representing domestic abuse” in an op-ed for The Washington Post in 2018.

Heard did not name Depp in the piece, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser.

Heard later countersued claiming that Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, defamed her by saying her abuse claims were a “hoax”. The jury awarded her $2 million.

This morning, Lawrence boldly claimed Heard has been “poking the bear” since her divorce from Depp, because she “still wants him in her life”.

“Remember they had divorced in 2017, things were over, she said I want him to move on, I want to move on, but then she wrote this article and she’s been poking the bear ever since because she still wants him in her life even if it’s in a negative way … They do have a toxic relationship and she clearly wants to continue it.”

She went on to say she was expecting Heard to “be honest” in the interview.

“I was kinda looking for her to be more likeable and more honest here and to say all the things we’ve been hoping she’d say all along which she does for like two seconds, but then she goes back to her whole, ‘Johnny’s an abuser, he’s a liar, etc’ … it’s weird.”

Agreeing that “it is weird”, Kochie wondered aloud whether Depp would sue again “just to shut her up”.

Kochie and Barr seemed to agree with Lawrence's remarks about Amber Heard.

Slamming the vicious segment, author and feminist voice Clementine Ford tweeted: “Why is @sunriseon7 so invested in wheeling out people to continually pile on to a woman who has already had 12 out of 14 allegations of domestic abuse against her agreed with in a UK court?

“Why is it so important to them that their viewers be fed the villainous woman fiction?”

Ford is referring to Depp’s 2020 lawsuit against The Sun over an article which labelled him a “wife beater”. Depp lost his libel action, with the judge finding the article’s claims to be “substantially true”.

Why is @sunriseon7 so invested in wheeling out people to continually pile on to a woman who has already had 12 out of 14 allegations of domestic abuse against her agreed with in a UK court? Why is it so important to them that their viewers be fed the villainous woman fiction? https://t.co/IBXIOy1ARG

— Clementine Ford 🧟‍♀️ (@clementine_ford) June 14, 2022

Author Clementine Ford lashed out at Sunrise over the coverage of Heard's upcoming interview.

“He promised ‘global humiliation’ to the woman he also freely called a ‘cum guzzler’, a ‘wh**e’, a ‘sl*t’ and ‘fat a**’, and who he described wanting to ‘f**k the burnt dead corpse’ of. But yes, she’s the one desperate for his attention,” Ford said of Depp’s horrific texts about his ex aired in court.

She concluded, “Amber Heard has endured abuse ... she’s now being abused repeatedly by a braying public who just love being given an excuse to proudly and openly flay a woman in real time.”