If you haven’t been following the trial, here’s a bit of a rundown of it, Amber Heard testimony reactions, and Johnny Depp testimony reactions for context.
On June 1st, a verdict was reached in the Heard Vs. Depp trial. Originally, Depp sued Heard for $50 million in damages, while Heard counter-sued for double that—$100 million.
In the end, Depp ended up winning $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages in his defamation suit. Amber ended up with $2 million in compensatory damages, and nothing in punitive damages.
And since then, the ether was in a bit of a relative silence. Folks were debating and speculating what will come next, with the aforementioned partial plot twist from Depp on TikTok.
But we now see Heard speaking out about the whole trial in an NBC exclusive interview. In the trailer, she explained that she doesn’t care about people’s thoughts or judgments about what happened in her own home behind closed doors—she presumes the average person wouldn’t know these things.
However, she does not believe that all the hate surrounding her on social media is a fair representation of things.
“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?” said Heard in the interview.
The interviewer, Savannah Guthrie, pointed out, on multiple occasions, that the jury did not believe her, and they thought Heard was lying.
The actress responded that she does not blame the jury for this. They couldn’t have possibly reached any other judgement. “How could they, after listening to three and a half weeks of testimony about how I was a non-credible person, not to believe a word that came out of my mouth?”
And while we only have the interview trailer for now, folks have been very active in voicing their thoughts and opinions on social media. They effectively dissected every word she said and turned it against her.
Reactions varied from pointing out how Heard called Kate Moss a “rando” to her explicitly saying that Depp is a better actor to folks asking the media to stop playing a PR game and trying to elicit sympathy for Heard. And the reactions didn’t stop there. But all in all, it was anything but positive towards her.