Amber Heard stated in a newly aired interview that she’s “terrified” of being sued for defamation once more by Johnny Depp — the remarks coming simply three weeks after the “Aquaman” actress misplaced her bombshell defamation case towards her ex-husband.
“I took without any consideration what I assumed was my proper to talk, not simply what I lived by means of however what I knew,” the actress stated concerning the case in a Friday evening sit-down with Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s “Dateline.”
“I’m terrified,” Heard added when requested if she was scared she is perhaps sued once more by Depp.
“I suppose that’s what a defamation lawsuit is supposed to do, it’s meant to take your voice.”
The total interview with Guthrie aired after a number of teasers have been dropped all through the week.
Regardless of the jury ruling earlier this month that Heard, 36, had smeared her “Pirates of the Caribbean” ex with the abuse allegations, she insisted she stands by “each phrase” of her testimony.
Actually, Heard doubled down on the allegations that Depp abused her throughout their “ugly” marriage — and bluntly accused him of mendacity after he repeatedly denied her claims on the stand through the six-week trial.
At one level within the interview, Guthrie famous that Depp testified he’d by no means struck Heard throughout their relationship and that “not one lady has come ahead and stated he bodily hit them.”
Heard responded by hinting that Depp’s different exes could have been too afraid to publicly accuse him of alleged abuse.
“Look what occurred to me once I got here ahead. Would you?” she stated.
She went on to elucidate her motivation for talking out publicly after being probed by Guthrie.
“One factor I can let you know is one factor I’m not is vindictive. There’s no a part of me that sees any … This is able to be a very awful option to get vengeance,” Heard stated.
“, Savannah, as foolish as it’s to say this out loud … my purpose, the one factor I might hope for at this level, is I simply need folks to see me as a human being.”
Heard additionally admitted she “completely” nonetheless loves Depp and bears “no unhealthy emotions” towards him.
Requested if there was one factor she wished the jury might have seen through the trial, Heard stated there are paperwork from her physician that “represented years, years of real-time explanations of what was happening.”
“There’s a binder price of years of notes courting again to 2011 from the very starting of my relationship that have been taken by my physician, who I used to be reporting the abuse to,” Heard stated at one level within the interview.
