Amber Heard has blasted ex-husband Johnny Depp as a liar and insisted she stands by “each phrase” of her bombshell testimony — however conceded she regrets being so “horrible” throughout their “very, very poisonous” marriage.
“To my dying day, I'll stand by each phrase in my testimony,” Heard, 36, informed the “At this time” present’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview teaser Tuesday of the accusations that price her $10.4 million for defamation.
She bluntly stated that Depp lied in denying having hit her, whereas additionally insisting she was by no means the one who instigated violent fights of their “ugly” marriage.
“I by no means needed to instigate it — I responded to it,” she insisted to Guthrie, saying that audio clips of their fights have been edited and caught a sufferer of abuse whose life was “in danger.”
“If you’re dwelling in violence and it turns into regular — as I testified to — it's a must to adapt,” she stated of her personal actions.
Nonetheless, she conceded, “I did do and say horrible, regrettable issues all through my relationship.
“I behaved in horrible, nearly unrecognizable to myself, methods.
“I've a lot remorse,” she stated, blaming it on “being pushed to the extent the place I didn’t even know the distinction between … proper and flawed.”
She stated the wedding was “ugly” — but additionally at instances “very lovely.”
“We have been terrible to one another. I made lots of errors — lots of errors.
“However I’ve at all times informed the reality,” she insisted.
The “Aquaman” actress referred to as the six-week defamation trial “probably the most humiliating and horrible factor I’ve ever been by way of.”
“I've by no means felt extra faraway from my very own humanity. I felt lower than human,” she stated.
“Each single day, I handed for 3, 4 typically six metropolis blocks lined with individuals holding indicators saying, ‘Burn the witch,’ ‘Dying to Amber,'” she stated.
“After three-and-a-half weeks I took the stand and noticed a courtroom packed filled with Captain Jack Sparrow followers who're vocal, energized,” she stated, referring to Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” character.
That overwhelming swell of assist for her ex finally misplaced her the case, she stated.
“I believe the overwhelming majority of this trial was performed out on social media. I believe that this trial is an instance of that gone haywire, gone amok.”
Requested if she thought the jury noticed the web assist, she stated, “How may they not? I believe even probably the most well-intentioned juror it could have been inconceivable to keep away from this.”
She additionally repeated her attorneys’ declare that she misplaced as a result of “actually vital items of proof” have been saved out of the case, proof which helped her win a court docket battle within the UK.
She additionally gave backhanded reward to Depp’s now-famous attorneys.
“I'll say his attorneys did definitely a greater job of distracting the jury from the actual points,” she stated.
Nonetheless, she mocked them for suggesting that her testimony had simply been her newest performing function.
“Says the lawyer for the person who satisfied the world he had scissors for fingers,” she stated, referring to Depp’s function as Edward Scissorhands.
“I had listened to weeks of testimony insinuating that — or saying fairly straight — that I’m a horrible actress.
“So I’m a bit confused how I might be each,” she stated, sarcastically.
Nonetheless, she admitted that the wild testimony that led to her brutal courtroom loss additionally painted her and her celebrity ex within the worst potential gentle.
“I'd not blame the common particular person for taking a look at this and the way it’s been coated and never suppose that it's Hollywood brats at their worst,” she conceded to Savannah Guthrie.
“However what individuals don’t perceive is it’s truly a lot greater than that,” she pressured, saying it was about “our First Modification proper to talk.”
“My understanding of what meaning is not only the liberty to talk — it’s a freedom to talk fact to energy,” she stated.
“The reality is the phrase. And that’s all I spoke.
“I spoke it to energy — and I paid the value,” she stated.
Her feedback got here on the second day of footage from a “wide-ranging sitdown” resulting in an hour-long “Dateline” particular Friday evening at 8 p.m. ET.
On Monday, clips confirmed her additionally saying that she was not shocked that the Virginia jury dominated in opposition to her.
“How may they not come to that conclusion? They'd sat in these seats and heard over three weeks of nonstop relentless testimony from paid staff and — in direction of the top of the trial — randos,” Heard informed Savannah Guthrie with a nervous chuckle.
“I don’t blame them. I truly perceive — he’s a beloved character, and other people really feel they know him. He’s a implausible actor,” she stated of her ex.
She insisted the trial was so one-sided it was inconceivable for the jury to not be dazzled by Depp and in addition attain a conclusion simply on the details.
“How may they, after listening to 3 and a half weeks of testimony about how I used to be a non-credible particular person, to not imagine a phrase that got here out of my mouth?” she requested.
Amber additionally decried the “hate and vitriol” she has obtained on-line whereas her ex was broadly praised and embraced by the general public.
“I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you wish to make about what occurred within the privateness of my own residence and my marriage behind closed doorways,” she informed Guthrie.
“I don’t presume the common particular person ought to know these issues, and so I don’t take it personally.
“However even any individual who is certain I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you happen to suppose that I’m mendacity, you continue to couldn’t look me within the eye and inform me that you simply suppose on social media there’s been a good illustration.
“You can't inform me that you simply suppose that this has been truthful.”
Depp received his bombshell defamation lawsuit after seven Fairfax jurors dominated in his favor that a Washington Publish op-ed Heard wrote about turning into a “public determine representing home abuse” had sullied his popularity and broken his profession.
Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, blamed the authorized loss on Depp’s staff’s strategy to “demonize Amber and suppress the proof.”
Heard’s staff additionally lashed out at her ex-husband for taking to TikTok and crowing in regards to the widespread assist he has obtained.
“As Johnny Depp says he’s ‘transferring ahead,’ ladies’s rights are transferring backward,” a spokesperson for Heard stated in a press release.
“The decision’s message to victims of home violence is … be afraid to face up and converse out.”
The Washington Publish has since added an in depth editor’s notice to Heard’s op-ed to spotlight the way it was dominated defamatory.
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