Amber Heard says she still loves Johnny Depp and has ‘no bad feelings’ – and realizes she’s not a ‘perfect’ victim | News about Ant-Man & Art

Amber Heard said she realized she wasn’t a “lovely victim” or “perfect” – and that she still had love for ex-husband Johnny Depp and “had no ill feelings or malice towards him”.

The actress made the comments during the second half of her interview with NBC in the US, her first since Depp won a multimillion-pound defamation trial against her.

When asked if she still loves the actor, To listen replied: “Yes, absolutely. I love him. I love him with all my heart and try as hard as I can to make the deeply broken relationship work. But I can’t.

“I don’t have any bad feelings or malice towards him. I know it can be hard to understand. Or it can be very understandable if you’ve just fallen in love with someone… It’ll be easy.”

However, Heard also admitted she feared she might be sued again for defamation by Depp by continuing to speak out after the court ruling. Depp has staunchly denied her domestic abuse allegations.

When asked if Depp had achieved “global humiliation” for her – as the court heard him write in a text message to a friend – the actress, 36, told the house. Savannah Guthrie newspaper: “I know he promised that.

“I testified to this. I was not a good victim, I understand that. I am not a likable victim. I am not a perfect victim. But when I testify, I do. asked the jury to see me as human and this, in his own words, was a promise to deliver on this, it seems he did.”

The Aquaman star was then asked if she was worried about what she can and can’t say now, and replied, “Of course. I’ve taken what I consider my right to be said as my right to say it.” of course.”

Addressing the possibility of being sued again, she said: “I fear that no matter what I do, no matter what I say or how I say it, every step I take creates another opportunity to silence, which I guess is a defamation. suing is a must.”

She also maintains a column on domestic abuse published in the Washington Post in 2018 – the central article of Depp’s case against her – not about her ex-husband, but about “the great cultural conversation”. more” around the #MeToo movement at the time.

“The article wasn’t about my relationship with Johnny,” she said. “What the op-ed was about was me lending my voice to a larger cultural conversation that we were having at the time.”

Heard said it’s important not to publish articles about Depp “or do anything like smear him. I’ve had lawyers, a team of lawyers, go through all the manuscripts on this.” .

Heard the question about TMZ and Depp was ‘cancelled’

She said she never wanted Depp to be “annulled” and lose his career because of the article. “Of course not. It’s not about him.”

The actress also addressed the evidence of a former employee of the popular website TMZ, who testified during the trial that the publication was revealed about the time when she attended a Los Angeles court to file a lawsuit. injunction against Depp after they split in May 2016.

“He’s definitely not bullied by me or any of the [team], “she speaks.” Why do they do that? No. As I testified before, it has nothing to do with me. “

‘We’re bad at each other’

Heard’s latest comments come in the second half of her two-part interview. In the first season on Tuesday, the actress admits she and Depp are “bad at each other” and that she “makes a lot of mistakes” – but insists she “always tells the truth”.

After six weeks of testimony, the case closed on June 1, with the jury finding that a 2018 article that Heard wrote for the Washington Post, about her alleged experiences as a victim domestic abuse, defamed Depp.

The actor was awarded $10.35 million (£8.2 million) in punitive damages.

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Heard won once in her counter-suit, successfully arguing that one of Depp’s attorneys had smeared her by claiming her allegations were “an abusive hoax” aimed at to take advantage of the #MeToo movement.

The jury awarded her $2 million (£1.5 million) in punitive damages.

What did Depp say in his testimony?

During his time in court, Depp denied abusing Heard and told jurors that his ex-wife’s domestic abuse allegations were “disgusting and disturbing”.

He said he was “obsessed” with finding out the truth about what really happened in their relationship.

“I feel it’s my responsibility to clear my and my children’s names about this terrible thing they have to read about their father,” he said. “My aim is the truth, because it kills me that the people I’ve met over the years… will think I’m a fraud and have lied to them.”

Later in the trial, when asked what it was like to hear Heard’s testimony, Depp said: “It’s crazy to hear the abhorrent accusations of violence, sexual violence that she ascribes to me, she accused me.

“I don’t think anyone likes to open up and tell the truth, but there are times when people simply have to because it’s getting out of hand.”

Then he paused before saying, “Terrible. It’s ridiculous. It’s humiliating. Ridiculous. Painful. Brutal. Unbelievable brutality, cruelty and all… falsehoods. . All are lies.”

After appearing in court to get all the evidence, Depp wasn’t there for the verdict, instead toured the UK with musician Jeff Beck.

Elaine Bredehoft, one of Heard’s attorneys, said she plans to appeal.

Sky News has approached Depp’s representative for comment on Heard’s interview.