Camille Vasquez says Johnny Depp appealed verdict because Amber Heard did

Johnny Depp’s hotshot lawyer Camille Vasquez opened up in a brand new interview Thursday in regards to the actor’s determination to attraction the $2 million verdict awarded to Amber Heard within the couple’s defamation battle.

Vasquez advised “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King it was “honest” to say that Depp’s workforce wouldn’t be looking for to attraction if his ex-wife hadn’t first filed to problem the jury verdict ordering her to pay Depp $10 million in damages.

Depp filed his discover of attraction Friday looking for to overturn the only rely of defamation that Heard gained at their bombshell trial final month. His submitting got here someday after Heard filed her personal attraction.

The 59-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor is hoping that the attraction will nullify the $2 million award the jury handed Heard over her claims that Depp’s lawyer made false and damaging feedback about her.

Depp, in fact, got here out victorious final month when a Fairfax County, Va., jury discovered that Heard defamed him in a 2018 Washington Submit op-ed piece on being a sufferer of home abuse.

Camille Vasquez stated Johnny Depp’s workforce wouldn’t be interesting the $2 million verdict awarded to Heard if Heard had not challenged the unique verdict.

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Rumors that Vasquez and Depp are romantically concerned have been categorically denied.

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Heard was awarded with $2 million over her accusations that Depp’s lawyer made false and damaging feedback about her.

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Vasquez stated Heard’s attraction was “anticipated.”

“I imply, she’s indicated for the reason that day she misplaced the trial that she was going to attraction,” the lawyer at Brown Rudnick stated. 

Submitting their very own attraction is an effort “to guard our shopper’s curiosity,” Vasquez stated, referring to Depp.

She additionally advised King she felt “fortunate” to characterize the star accused of home abuse. 

Johnny Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, tells @gayleking that their comparatively younger authorized workforce was an asset in his case: “I feel younger folks have a contemporary perspective on particularly these points, the problems that we have been discussing on this case — abuse, Me Too.” pic.twitter.com/dmg0TnlNZ1

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EXCLUSIVE: @GayleKing sits down with legal professional Camille Vasquez, who represented Johnny Depp in his defamation trial win in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard, for her first interview since Heard filed a movement to attraction. pic.twitter.com/uf3Rqrn3vH

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“This was his title, this was his life. It was vital,” stated Vasquez, 38.

The lawyer, who turned the breakout star of the trial, stated she thought it was essential that Depp had youthful attorneys on his workforce.

“I feel younger folks have a contemporary perspective on particularly these points, the problems that we have been discussing on this case — abuse, Me Too,” she stated.

Vasquez added she was “disillusioned” by the rumors she was romantically concerned with Depp, which each have categorically denied.