Amber Heard said in an interview that she still loves Johnny Depp. AP photo
It has been two weeks since the jury verdict from Fairfax, Virginia (United States) came out, in which it was determined that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard they had defamed each other. This high-profile trial caused quite a stir as it involved two people of international fame.
Since the sentence was published, the issue of the legal dispute between the two actors has taken a back seat.
However, now in an exclusive interview for NBC News, Amber Heard has assured that she still loves Johnny Depp and rekindled the spark. “Absolutely. I love you. I loved him with all my heart“The interpreter told Savannah Guthrie on NBC News.” I have no hard feelings or ill will towards her, “she later said.
Amber Heard is hugged by her attorney Elaine Bredehoft after the verdict in the trial with Johnny Depp. AP photo
A two-part interview
During the interview, which aired in two episodes this week in the United States and of which a special will air this Friday, Amber Heard spoke about the trial that took place last May for a defamation complaint by Johnny Depp against the his ex-wife for the article Heard wrote in the Washington Post in 2018.
It should be remembered that the interpreter never mentioned Depp in that article, but the plaintiff’s attorneys argued that Amber Heard used in that opinion column the statements she had made during her divorce from the plaintiff two years earlier and, according to the plaintiff’s attorneys, that hinted at that the article was about Depp.
Also, according to Depp’s legal team that article had a negative impact on his professional career and that’s why he decided to sue Heard for libel.
Journalist Savannah Guthrie with Amber Heard, in an interview for NBC News. AP Photos,
During the six weeks that the trial lasted, Amber Heard had to hear how he was tried and his mental health was evaluatedher behavior and credibility on the part of her ex-husband’s lawyers.
However, and despite the tough and tough process she went through during the trial, the actress confessed in the interview with Savannah that she still feels love for the man she accused of physical and psychological abuse.
love despite everything
These statements come following a post the actress made on Instagram prior to the trial. “On the first day of the trial, you released a statement,” said interviewer, Savannah Guthrie. “And part of the statement said, ‘I still have love for Johnny,'” Guthrie continued.
Amber Heard reiterated what she posted on Instagram and revealed that when she was with Depp she loved him and that she still loves the actor now despite everything. “Absolutely. I love him. I loved him with all my heart,” the actress said in the interview.
Likewise, the interpreter ensured that She tried hard to make her relationship with Johnny Depp work. “I did my best to make a deeply broken relationship work. And I couldn’t. I have no hard feelings or ill will towards him,” Heard confessed in the interview.
The interviewer asked Heard to explain how it is possible that after all that has happened, she still loves Depp. “I know it can be difficult to understand, or it can be very easy to understand,” was Heard’s response. “If you’ve ever loved someone, it should be easy,” the actress later said.
The reasons for the article in the newspaper
In addition, she also explained in the interview the reasons that led her to write the controversial article in Washington Post in 2018. In this sense, the actress assured that the article had no relationship with Johnny Depp and he did not intend to damage the actor’s image.
Johnny Depp convinced Amber Heard to pay him $ 10 million for libel. AP photo
As Amber Heard repeated in the interview with NBC News your main motivation when you wrote that editorial he had to lend his voice to the #MeToo movement and that the company realizes that what #MeToo denounced was happening in reality and that it was not an invention.
The interviewer told the actress that one of the consequences of #MeToo was that some men from the industry of Hollywood and other popular areas of the United States they were socially wiped out and lost their jobs. And Savannah asked if that’s what the actress wanted to happen to Johnny Depp.
“The legs of powerful men have been fired, losing their jobs,” Savannah told Heard in the interview. “Did you want this to happen to Johnny Depp?” However, the actress denied that this was her goal with her ex-husband. “Of course not,” Heard replied. “It wasn’t about him,” said the interpreter.
The trial held in Fairfax found that Amber Heard had defamed Johnny Depp in that article which is why she is now. forced to pay the actor ten million dollars for compensatory damages and approximately 250,000 for punitive damages.
For its part, the jury also awarded Amber Heard about two million dollars in damages for the actress’s counterclaim against the actor for defamation for the statements of the former lawyer of the actor against Heard in an interview. in 2020.
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