Amber Heard has spoken out following the outcome of the recent trial against her former husband Johnny Depp, which ruled in favour of the latter.Depp was awarded $10million (£8million) in compensatory damages and $5million in punitive damages earlier this month after he sued Heard for defamation regarding a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, where she wrote about being a survivor of domestic violence.
The piece did not explicitly name Depp by name, though his lawyers argued that it falsely implies she was sexually and physically abused by him during their marriage.Heard was also awarded $2million (£1.5million) after the jury found that Depp had defamed her through his attorney.Appearing on NBC’s TODAY show, Heard sat down for an interview with Savannah Guthrie, with a preview clip released today (June 13).Speaking to the interviewer, Heard said: “I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors.“I don’t presume the average person should know those things.
And so I don’t take it personally. But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation.
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