Actor Amber Heard introduced on Monday that she had made the “very difficult” resolution to settle the multimillion greenback defamation case introduced by her former husband Johnny Depp.
Heard, in a publish on Instagram, didn’t reveal the phrases of the settlement, which comes after a Virginia jury ordered her to pay $10 million to the Pirates of the Caribbean star.
The leisure web site TMZ, citing sources with direct data, mentioned the settlement requires the 36-year-old Heard to pay $1 million to her 59-year-old former husband.
Heard, who had a starring position within the film Aquaman, mentioned she was dropping her attraction of the damages awarded by the jury and settling the case as a result of she “simply cannot go through” one other trial.
“After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case,” she mentioned.
“I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder,” she mentioned.
“Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to,” she mentioned.
“I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession.” The jury discovered Depp and Heard answerable for defamation — however sided extra strongly with the Pirates star following an intense six-week trial using on bitterly contested allegations of home abuse.
The jury awarded $10.35 million in damages to Depp. Heard, who had countersued, was awarded $2 million.
‘Defended my truth’
Depp sued Heard over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Submit in December 2018 wherein she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The Texas-born Heard didn’t title Depp within the piece, however he sued her for implying he was a home abuser and sought $50 million in damages.
Heard countersued for $100 million, saying she was defamed by statements made by Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, who instructed the Day by day Mail her abuse claims have been a “hoax.” The case, stay streamed to hundreds of thousands, featured lurid and intimate particulars concerning the Hollywood celebrities’ personal lives. Heard’s legal professionals mentioned following the trial that the actress didn’t have the sources to pay Depp the $10 million in damages.
In her Instagram publish, Heard mentioned she “defended my fact and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed.
“The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are revictimised when they come forward,” she mentioned. “I used to be uncovered to a sort of humiliation that I merely can not relive.
“Even if my US appeal is successful, the best outcome would be a retrial where a new jury would have to consider the evidence again,” she mentioned. “I simply cannot go through that for a third time.”
Initially revealed in Daybreak, December 20th, 2022
