Despite a jury deciding that she previously defamed Johnny Depp and owes him millions as a result, Amber Heard’s counsel maintained her right to continue speaking out against him.
Heard discussed the decision with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie for the first time since the trial, and a spokeswoman for Depp accused her of ‘repeating, reimagining, and re-litigating topics that have already been resolved.’
Heard’s spokesperson has now dared the Pirates of the Caribbean star to come forward and be interviewed.
The spokesperson told DailyMail.com: “If Mr. Depp or his team have a problem with this, we recommend that Johnny himself sit down with Savannah Guthrie for an hour and answer all her questions.”
In a defamation lawsuit, Depp sued his ex-wife Heard for $50 million for domestic abuse charges she made in a 2018 piece in The Washington Post, and she counterclaimed for $100 million.
Despite the fact that the story did not name Depp, his lawyers said it implied that he physically and sexually abused the Aquaman actor while they were together.
Depp was given $10.35 million in damages after the jury found that what Heard wrote in her op-ed essay was defamatory.
In an interview with Today, Heard expressed concern that her ex-husband would pursue legal action against her.
When Guthrie asked whether she was nervous about what she can now say, she replied: “Of course. I took for granted what I assumed was my right to speak.”
Guthrie then questioned her over whether she felt she could be sued for defamation again.
Heard replied: “I am scared that, no matter what I do, no matter what I say or how I say it, every step that I take will present another opportunity for silencing, which I guess is what a defamation lawsuit is meant to do – it is meant to take your voice.”
Guthrie also asked whether Depp’s claim that he never hit her was a lie, to which she answered: “Yes it is.”
Responding to the interview, a spokesperson for Depp said: “It’s unfortunate that while Johnny is looking to move forward with his life, the defendant and her team are back to repeating, reimagining and re-litigating matters that have already been decided by the court and a verdict that was unequivocally decided by a jury in Johnny’s favor.”
After meeting on the set of the 2011 film The Rum Diary, Depp and Heard began dating and married in 2015. The following year, Heard got a restraining order against Depp, and the couple divorced in 2017.
Depp lost a libel case against The Sun in 2020 over an article in which he was referred to as a “wife-beater.”
All charges of abuse have been refuted by him.
Source: unilad.co