In her first television interview since the verdicts were announced, Amber Heard has said she does not blame the jury in her defamation battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
In a clip from her upcoming interview with NBC Today journalist Savannah Guthrie on Friday's Dateline NBC, the Aquaman actress says: "I don't blame them. I actually understand. He's a beloved character and people feel they know him. He's a fantastic actor."
.@savannahguthrie sat down for an exclusive conversation with #AmberHeard. "You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair," Heard shared, in reference to social media representation. pic.twitter.com/56Ju7pYg1x
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Responding, Guthrie says: "Their job is to not be dazzled by that. Their job is to look at the facts and the evidence and they did not believe your testimony or your evidence."
Heard continues: "Again, how could they after listening to three and a half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person, how not to believe a word that came out of my mouth?"
Discussing the abuse she has received online, Heard says: "Even if you think that I'm lying, you still couldn’t tell me - look me in the eye and tell me - that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation."
Earlier this month, a jury in the US state of Virginia found both Depp and Heard liable for defamation following a trial centred on bitterly contested allegations of domestic abuse.
The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages after finding that a 2018 Washington Post article penned by Heard on the "sexual violence" she had allegedly suffered was defamatory to Depp.
The jury also found that Heard was defamed by statements made by Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman, who told the Daily Mail that her abuse claims were a "hoax", and awarded her $2 million in damages.
Source: Press Association, AFP
