Actress heard amber He’s sure he’s not indicting the jury who found him responsible for defaming his ex-wife. Although Johnny Depp pointed out that he was not treated fairly on social networks.
“Even if you’re the type of person who thinks I deserve this hate and enmity, even if you think I’m lying, you can’t look me in the eye and say that she thinks it’s fair representation on social media,” the actress said. Excerpt from an interview broadcast by the NBC network this Monday.
The morning show ‘Today’ advanced by a few minutes. Heard’s first interview after the verdict pitting himself against the protagonist of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and watched live by millions of viewers thanks to the presence of cameras in the Fairfax courts (Virginia, USA).
The full interview will be broadcast in three parts, the first two on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the third on Friday, on a special program in prime time.
The quotes the chain used to promote the interview leave no word on whether Heard will appeal the verdict, though they leave the actress believe the jury was impressed.
“How can they not come to that conclusion? For more than three weeks, they sat and listened non-stop to nonstop testimonials from paid employees. and random people towards the end of the trial,” the actress said.
“I don’t blame them. I actually understand them,” he said of the jurors.
“He’s a very popular character and people think they know him. He’s a great actor,” added Depp.
At your first request, Depp requested $50 million for the article published in The Washington Post in 2018. and Heard claimed that he was the victim of domestic abuse, without revealing the actor’s name.
After the trial, The jury decided that the actress should pay Depp 10 million in damages and a fine of 5 million.however, Fairfax County Judge (Virginia, USA), Penney Azcarate reduced the second amount to $350,000.
Actually, Heard won’t have to pay those 10 million in full, because the jury also decided that Depp must reimburse his ex-wife 2 million. for a comment deemed insulting to Heard by his former attorney.
While Depp stylistically celebrated the decision on his social networks and asked fans to “go forward”, Heard’s attorney suggested that he hopes to appeal “because he has excellent reasons to do so.”
For the hypothetical appeal, the lawyer announced that they would present a series of tests that were not accepted in the process, and that they were part of a similar case in London, where Depp lost another defamation lawsuit against The Sun newspaper. article describing the actor as “beating women” and which the jury decided was true.