Amber Heard was certainly not happy with the outcome of her trial with Johnny Depp, but she doesn’t blame the jury in Depp’s libel case.
Amber Heard says she doesn’t blame the jury for awarding her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million after a controversial six-week libel trial in her first post- verdict interview.
"I don’t blame them," Heard told "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie in an interview on NBC Monday, though it’s clear that Amber Heard was clearly not happy with the outcome of her trial with Johnny Depp .
“Actually I understand. He is a beloved character and people feel they know him. He’s a fantastic actor."
“Today” plans to air more of his interview with Heard on Tuesday and Wednesday. The interview airs nearly two weeks after the verdict, in which Heard was also awarded $2 million for her claim that one of Depp’s lawyers defamed her.
Depp sued Heard for defamation in Virginia over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." His lawyers said he was defamed by the article even though his name was never mentioned.
The verdicts capped a televised trial that Depp hopes will help restore his reputation, though it became a spectacle that offered a window into a volatile marriage and both actors emerged with unclear prospects for their careers. Guthrie pressed Heard on her credibility. and what it meant to jurors in the videos released Monday. “There is no polite way to say it. The jury examined the evidence he presented. They heard your testimony and they didn’t believe you," he said. "They thought you were lying."
Heard responded, “How could they not come to that conclusion? They had sat in those seats and listened for three weeks to relentless and unrelenting testimony from "paid employees" and witnesses the actor described as "randos" or random people.
Depp, who has yet to conduct a formal interview about the case, has said the verdict "brought my life back". Heard said in a statement after the verdict that she was heartbroken, while her attorney said in a separate "Today" interview that her client was "demonized" on social media and that she plans to appeal the ruling.
“I don’t care what people think of me or the judgments they want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors. I don’t suppose the average person should know those things, so I don’t take it personally," Heard told Guthrie.
“You still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think there has been fair representation on social media. You can’t tell me you think this was fair,” Heard said. Heard’s interview will also appear on Friday’s “Dateline” episode.