Amber Heard and Johnny Depp will go down in history for having one of America’s most hostile yet entertaining trials.
Amber Heard lost the defamation suit after the jury found her guilty of defaming Johnny Depp after her op-ed came out in the Washington Post in 2018. Heard claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.
In a recent interview with Savannah Guthrie on the Today show, she admitted that she felt “less than human.”
“This was the most humiliating and horrible thing I’ve ever been through,” says a distraught Heard.
The experience was “surreal and difficult,” she says.
During the trial, Depp and Heard each testified about the relationship between the now notorious duo.
Heard confessed that Depp abused her by hitting her and sexually assaulting her. Johnny Depp stood by his words, saying he has “never struck a woman” in his entire life.
Heard also discussed her concerns about the media’s inaccurate portrayal of her.
“Twenty-second clips, or the transcripts of them, are not representative of even the two hours or three hours that those clips are excerpted from,” she said. “As I testified to, I was talking in those recordings as a person in extreme amount of emotional, psychological, and physical distress.”
Heard said she could not blame anyone for perceiving the trial as “Hollywood brats at their worst,” but reiterated that this was a First Amendment issue.
“It’s not just the freedom to speak. It’s the freedom to speak truth to power,” she said. “And that’s all I spoke. And I spoke it to power, and I paid the price.”
Depp’s lawyers have denied that the jury was influenced by social media’s portrayal of the trial.
She wasn’t convincing and seemed insincere on the Today show interview.