Amber Heard’s 2018 op-ed about coming forward with domestic abuse allegations against Johnny Depp was the subject of a defamation lawsuit launched by the actor’s ex-wife, Amber Heard.

There were $15 million in damages given to Depp by the jury but because of Virginia law, Heard will only have to pay $10.35 million (the judge reduced the amount).

Depp was judged to have defamed Heard on one of three grounds in Heard’s countersuit against him. Damages totaling $2 million were granted to her.

After hearing both sides’ last statements on Friday, the jury began deliberations until reconvening on Memorial Day morning, two days later. After more than 12 hours of deliberations behind closed doors, the unanimous verdict was read aloud in the Fairfax County, Virginia, courtroom on Wednesday afternoon.

Depp, 58, was not in attendance for the announcement; instead, he was watching from the United Kingdom, where he has been performing rock concerts with Jeff Beck since Sunday evening. 36-year-old Heard personally attended the verdict.

Five men and two women are said to have been on the seven-person jury, which will stay anonymous for at least a year, according to Judge Penney Azcarate. At 3 p.m., the judge saw that jurors hadn’t filled in their damages on the forms, so he postponed reading the verdict until they had done so. As a result, the trial was delayed while the jury members were sent back to complete their work.heard said 

Heard said “Two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.” 

“I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse,” she wrote in the op-ed. “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.”

Depp and Heard agreed to a joint media statement following their divorce settlement in the fall of 2016. According to them, “We had a passionate, sometimes tumultuous, but always loving relationship. It’s important to note that neither side has fabricated accusations in order to gain an advantage. I never intended to damage someone physically or emotionally. Amber hopes that Johnny has a bright future ahead of him. Amber plans to donate the money she gets from the divorce to a good cause.

“Her $7 million divorce settlement will go to the American Civil Liberties Union and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, according to a public statement from Heard. According to the evidence presented in court by Depp’s side, it was agreed that the actress would make annual payments to the fund, but this has not yet occurred. While on the witness stand, Heard insisted that she wants to finish the donations.

On the issue of making good on the promised charitable gifts, the actress added, “I would love him to quit suing me so that I can.”

Depp stated on oath that he had been physically abused by Heard, but he also claimed that he had never struck a woman before. In a statement, the actor said,”I don’t think anyone enjoys having to split themselves open and tell the truth. truth.”

“No human being is perfect, certainly not. None of us. But I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things and living with it for six years and waiting to be able to bring the truth out,” he said,”This is not easy for any of us; I know that.”

According to Depp, his “objective” in the trial was to obtain “the truth” in order to vindicate his name, and he stated that he had “lost nothing short of everything” as a result of Heard’s allegations, including his reputation and job chances.

It’s also been revealed that Amber Heard has testified about the alleged sexual assaults she suffered from Johnny Depp, and that their relationship was plagued by violence. Depp threatened to “ruin” her if she didn’t quit the marriage, and she was afraid she wouldn’t survive if she didn’t.

“Johnny had vowed to ruin me, to destroy my job, and to take my life away from me if I trusted him. The only other option was to die. He would do this to me if I escaped. Every day, I’d think of him and miss him. He had promised to make the world laugh at me “”I’m so sorry,” she sobbed.

A day after receiving death threats and having her every move mocked and scrutinized, Heard described the experience as “torture” to the courtroom full of millions of people watching the trial live on the internet.

“I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day. Even just walking into this courtroom, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life, things that I’ve lived through used to humiliate me. People want to kill me, and they tell me so every day. People want to put my baby in the microwave, and they tell me that,” testified Heard, who welcomed her first baby in April 2021. “Johnny threatened — promised me — that if I ever left him, he’d make me think of him every single day that I lived.”

isthatporks take; all relationships have a testing point. It’s obvious at some point a lot of pork crept up in theirs. The bright side is they can both move on. The better bright side is that hopefully, they learned how to better evaluate who they except as a partner. Cause when our thinking caps are on correctly, we can avoid these pitfalls that come later on. That may be the biggest lesson of all. “Paying attention and staying attention”.Johnny and Amber, we hope you’re listening cause we got your lesson.

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