After the six-week trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, aseven-person jury reached a verdictearlier this month deciding that Depp, 59, proved theAquamanactress, 36, defamed him in a 2018 op-ed. (Depp has maintained that he never assaulted Heard, andclaimed she physically harmed him.)
The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages butHeard will only have to pay $10.35 milliondue to a Virginia law limiting punitive damages (the judge reduced the amount). In her countersuit, Heard won one of the three defamation counts, and was awarded $2 million in damages.
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“[Truth is] all I spoke. And I spoke it to power,” Heard also told Guthrie. “And I paid the price.”
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Heard also said in the interview segment that aired Tuesday that she has “so much regret” for what transpired during her past relationship with Depp, whom she was married to from 2015 to 2017.
“Idid do and say horrible, regrettable thingsthroughout my relationship. I behaved in horrible, almost unrecognizable to myself ways,” she said. “I freely and openly and voluntarily talked about what I did. I talked about the horrible language. I talked about being pushed to the extent where I didn’t even know the difference between right and wrong.”
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“I will always continue to feel like I was a part of this, like I was the other half of this relationship because I was. And it was ugly, and could be very beautiful. It was very, very toxic,” Heard said. “We were awful to each other.”
And while the actress admitted she “made a lot of mistakes,” she insisted inher conversation with Guthrie, 50, “I’ve alwaystold the truth.”
During the interview, Guthrie also grilled Heard over her claims she was the victim of Depp’s abuse, pointing to arguments thePirates of the Caribbeanactor’s legal team made that the actress instigated the exes' spats.
“I never had to instigate it. I responded to it,” Heard told the host. “When you’re living in violence, it becomes normal, as I testified to. You have to adapt.”
But Guthrie, whose husbandMichael Feldmanworked as a consultant for Depp’s legal team in the trial, pointed to audio in which Heard admitted to hitting Depp. Those recordings, captured as the former couple discussed their explosive March 2015 Australia fight that resulted in Depp’sright middle finger being severedat the tip, were played for the jury in April.
Heard added that the tapes, which she said were “first leaked online after being edited,” did not share the full story of her encounters with Depp. “20-second clips or the transcripts of them are not representative of the 2 hours or 3 hours that those are excerpted from,” she said.
From there, Guthrie pressed her regarding why she hadn’t submitted the recordings in full to begin with. “I’m not a lawyer,” Heard said. “As I testified to, I was talking in those recordings as a person in an extreme amount of psychological, emotional and physical distress.”
source: people.com
