Amber Heard sat impassive within the courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, on Wednesday afternoon whereas listening to the jury rule in her ex-husband Johnny Depp's favor within the $50 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to her.
Depp received his declare based mostly on three statements Heard made in her 2018 op-ed with The Washington Submit titled, "I spoke up in opposition to sexual violence—and confronted our tradition's wrath. That has to alter."
Depp was awarded a complete of $15 million in damages, whereas Heard had a partial win in her counter-defamation declare, successful $2 million in damages. The decide later adjusted Depp's punitive damages earnings of $5M to $350,000 per Virginia's authorized most.
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All through the studying of the decision, Heard remained stoic, exhibiting little to no emotion because the jurors dominated largely in favor of her ex-husband.
When the jury ruling was completed, Heard might be seen embracing each of her attorneys, Elaine Bredehoft and Benjamin Rottenborn earlier than leaving the courtroom.
After the ruling, Heard launched an announcement saying that the jury verdict was a "setback" for ladies who've spoken out about home violence.
"The frustration I really feel at present is past phrases," Heard stated. "I am heartbroken that the mountain of proof nonetheless was not sufficient to face as much as the disproportionate energy, affect, and sway of my ex-husband.
"I am much more disillusioned with what this verdict means for different girls. It's a setback. It units again the clock to a time when a lady who spoke up and spoke out might be publicly shamed and humiliated. It units again the concept violence in opposition to girls is to be taken critically."
She added that the First Modification seemed to be "missed" on this trial. "I am unhappy I misplaced this case. However I'm sadder nonetheless that I appear to have misplaced a proper I believed I had as an American—to talk freely and overtly," she stated.
The Aquaman actress' followers shared the hashtag, "I Stand With Amber Heard" on Twitter following the decision, some echoing the feelings Heard wrote in her assertion.
"Amber Heard had images, video, textual content messages, audio recordings, eyewitnesses, medical notes, therapists notes and she or he was nonetheless not believed. It is a huge setback for ladies," one person on Twitter wrote.
One other Twitter person wrote, "My coronary heart breaks for amber heard...it breaks for ladies previous and current who've been silenced by highly effective males. it breaks for ladies who shouldn't have the privilege that they do. it breaks for women who will develop as much as see that is how they're handled."
And Eve Barlow, a journalist and outspoken pal of Heard's, tweeted a photograph of Heard and wrote, "It doesn't matter what I am all the time behind you, Heard."
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