Amber Heard Says She’ll Stand By ‘Every Word’ Of Her Testimony Until Her ‘Dying Day’

Breaking Business Amber Heard Says She’ll Stand By ‘Every Word’ Of Her Testimony Until Her ‘Dying Day’ Julie Coleman Forbes Staff I’m on the Forbes Breaking News Team. Jun 14, 2022, 11:07am EDT | Updated Jun 14, 2022, 11:19am EDT Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Amber Heard says she’ll stand by her testimony in the Johnny Depp defamation trial until her “dying day,” during a clip from a new interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that will air this week, detailing her distressing experience being in a courtroom full of the actor’s fans. Actor Amber Heard waits before the verdict was read at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in .

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The jury awarded Johnny Depp more than $10 million in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. It vindicates his stance that Heard fabricated claims that she was abused by Depp before and during their brief marriage. But the jury also found in favor of Heard, who said she was defamed by a lawyer for Depp.

(Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS Key Facts In a clip released Tuesday, Heard told Guthrie she “spoke [truth] to power” and “paid the price” for doing so, reiterating her claims in court that Depp, her ex-husband, physically and psychologically abused her. Guthrie asked Heard about audio recordings presented to the court that seem to show the actress saying she instigated physical altercations with Depp, but Heard insisted she only became physical with her ex-husband when trying to defend herself from him. Heard stressed that the twenty second excerpts from the audio recordings are not representative of the full two or three hour tapes.

Guthrie also asked Heard about a moment during the trial when Depp’s lawyers called her testimony “the performance of a lifetime,” accusing her of acting on the stand. “Says the lawyer for the man who convinced the world he had scissors for fingers?” Heard responded, referring to Depp’s role in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands , adding that she’d listened to testimony for weeks insinuating that she was a bad actress. Key Background Depp sued Heard for defamation after she wrote a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post describing herself as a “public victim representing domestic abuse,” but didn’t specifically name Deep as an abuser.

After a high-profile, highly-publicized six-week trial, a jury in Fairfax, Virginia ruled that Heard had defamed Depp and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, however the punitive damages were knocked down to $350,000. Heard won part of her countersuit against Depp and was awarded $2 million. Key Quote “This was the most humiliating and horrible thing I’ve ever been through,” Heard told Guthrie.

“I have never felt more removed from my own humanity. I felt less than human. ” What To Watch For Heard’s full interview will air Tuesday and Wednesday on TODAY, as well as on Dateline Friday at 8 p.

m. Further Reading Amber Heard Says She Doesn’t ‘Blame’ Jurors For Siding With Johnny Depp—But Says Trial Wasn’t ‘Fair’ (Forbes) Jury Rules Amber Heard Defamed Johnny Depp In Domestic Abuse Op-Ed (Forbes) Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn . Send me a secure tip .

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