The 36-year-old broke her silence on the trial to detail the “hate and vitriol” she received online in an interview with theToday program on NBC News.
“You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair,” she said.
In a preview clip,Heard said of the jury:“I don’t blame them. I actually understand. He’s a beloved character and people feel they know him. He’s a fantastic actor.”
She was pushed on the verdict by Savannah Guthrie,the NBC interviewer,who told the actress:“Their job is to not be dazzled by that. Their job is to look at the facts and evidence and they did not believe your testimony or your evidence.”
Heard added:“Again,how could they after listening to three-and-a-half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person,how not to believe a word that came out of my mouth?”
Johnny Depp waves to supporters outside the courthouse.AP
Speaking about the messages she has received online,Heard said:“I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home,in my marriage,behind closed doors.
“I don’t presume the average person should know those things. And so I don’t take it personally.
“But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol,even if you think that I’m lying,you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation.
“You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”
A jury in Virginia concluded that a 2018 article Heard wrote forThe Washington Post about her experiences as a survivor of domestic abuse was defamatory and awarded $US10.35 million in damages to Depp.
Heard won on one count of her countersuit,successfully arguing that Depp’s press agent defamed her by claiming her allegations were “an abuse hoax” aimed at. The jury awarded her $US2 million in damages.
Depp previously lost a similar trial in the UK that he brought against the publisher ofThe Sun newspaper after an article,also written in 2018,referred to him as a “wife-beater”.
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