Amber Heard didn’t simply assault ex-husband Johnny Depp in her first interview about her humiliating courtroom loss — she additionally took direct goal at his now-celebrity legal professional Camille Vasquez.
Chatting with NBC Information for a one-hour “Dateline” particular, Heard, 36, confirmed clear disdain when Savannah Guthrie requested about Vasquez’s repeated argument that the actress gave “the efficiency of her life” and was merely performing in her explosive courtroom testimony.
“Says the lawyer for the person who satisfied the world he had scissors for fingers,” Heard shot again, her voice dripping with sarcasm whereas referring to Depp’s efficiency within the 1990 fantasy “Edward Scissorhands.”
“I’m the performer? I had listened to weeks of testimony insinuating that — or saying fairly instantly — that I’m a horrible actress.
“So I’m a bit confused how I may very well be each,” she snapped in a teaser of the interview launched Tuesday.
Heard solely mustered backhanded reward when Guthrie bluntly requested her if she thought she misplaced as a result of her ex-husband “simply had higher legal professionals” than she.
“I'll say his legal professionals did actually a greater job of distracting the jury from the true points,” the actress replied, with out ever instantly naming Vasquez or her colleague, Benjamin Chew.
Vasquez’s successful efficiency through the explosive six-week trial made her an surprising star in addition to a newly promoted accomplice in her agency.
She had each opened and closed her case by suggesting that the actress would merely be acting on the stand.
“She has been dwelling and respiratory this lie for years now, and she or he has been making ready to provide the efficiency of her life on this trial,” Vasquez stated throughout opening statements in April.
Then in closing arguments late final month, she advised the court docket, “She got here into this courtroom ready to provide the efficiency of her life, and she or he gave it.”
Heard as an alternative blamed her loss on social media protection in addition to “actually necessary items of proof” being blocked from the trial.
Her feedback got here on the second day of footage from her “wide-ranging sitdown” with NBC being launched forward of the particular airing at 8 p.m. ET Friday.
In her personal interviews final week, Vasquez derided such excuses, insisting that Heard misplaced just by legal professionals “utilizing her phrases towards her.”
“The important thing to victory was specializing in the details and the proof, and Johnny’s alternative to talk the reality for the primary time,” she advised “Good Morning America.”
“Each query that was requested was tied to one thing she had stated beforehand.
“And I believe the jury received to see, the world received to see and listen to from Miss Heard” concerning the fact within the couple’s poisonous relationship.
“We consider that proof speaks for itself. … The jury made a unanimous choice primarily based on these details,” she stated.
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