Amber Heard Releases Statement About Settling Defamation Suit with Johnny Depp

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is settled. After a highly-publicized and tense trial in Virginia earlier this year, the jury agreed that both exes defamed each other.

Heard to pay Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Although she had plans to fight it, has since withdrawn the appeal.

Heard shared the news in a long statement posted on her Instagram grid on Monday, December 19. “It's important for me to say that I never chose this," Heard wrote. "I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed.

The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimised when they come forward.”“This is not an act of concession,” she continued. “There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.” See the post, which Heard captioned with a pink double heart emoji, here:This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“In the interim I was exposed to a type of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live," Heard continued. ”Even if my U.S.