Amber Heard says she’s ‘heartbroken’ after the jury’s verdict in her trial against Johnny Depp: ‘I’m sad I lost this case’
Amber Heard said in a statement Wednesday that she’s “sad” and “heartbroken” after a jury found her liable for defaming Johnny Depp.
Jurors found both Depp and Heard liable for defaming each other in a verdict reached Wednesday, which awarded Depp $15 million in damages from Heard and Heard $2 million in damages from Depp.
In a statement shared on Twitter after the verdict, Heard said the “disappointment I feel today is beyond words.”
“I am heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband,” she added.
“I’m even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women,” Heard said in the statement. “It is a setback. It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.”
In the statement, the actor added that she believed Depp’s attorneys “succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.”
Depp lost a libel case against the British newspaper The Sun in the UK in 2020 over an article that described him as a “wife-beater.”
