Amber Heard Agrees To Settle Defamation Case With Johnny Depp After Filing To Appeal: ‘Difficult Decision’

Amber Heard, 36, and Johnny Depp, 59, person yet settled their defamation case, aft Amber tried to appeal the June 2022 verdict that went successful Johnny’s favor. “After a large woody of deliberation I person made a precise hard determination to settee the defamation lawsuit brought against maine by my ex-husband successful Virginia,” Amber wrote connected Instagram Dec. 19.

“It is important for maine to accidental I ne'er chose this,” Amber said successful her statement. “I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I person faced connected societal media is an amplified mentation of the ways successful which women are re-victimized erstwhile they travel forward.”

Amber, who lost the case against Johnny and was ordered to wage her ex $10 cardinal successful damages for being recovered blameworthy of defaming him successful an op-ed portion for The Washington Post, explained that her colony doesn’t alteration her story. “I person made nary admission. This is not an enactment of concession. There are nary restrictions oregon gags with respect to my dependable moving forward,” she said. The Aquaman actress besides called retired however she “was exposed to a benignant of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live” during the trial, earlier noting that she’s settled the lawsuit due to the fact that “time is precious, and I privation to walk my clip productively and purposefully.”

“In settling this lawsuit I’m besides choosing the state to dedicate my clip to the enactment that helped maine heal aft my divorce; enactment that exists successful realms successful which I consciousness seen, heard and believed and successful which I cognize I tin effect change,” Amber said. “I volition not beryllium threatened, disheartened, oregon dissuaded by what happened from speaking the truth. No 1 tin and nary 1 volition instrumentality that from me. My dependable everlastingly remains the astir invaluable plus I have,” she added. Amber concluded her connection by thanking her ineligible squad and anyone that supported her during the trial.

Amber Heard (Photo: ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA)

Amber filed to appeal the verdict successful the defamation lawsuit connected December 5. In tribunal documents, the histrion claimed that Johnny’s defamation claims against her should person been dismissed earlier a proceedings adjacent took place. Amber’s lawyer adjacent antecedently stated that Amber could not afford to wage the $10 cardinal to Johnny.

Amber’s Washington Post op-ed featured her opening up astir being the unfortunate of home abuse. She ne'er mentioned Johnny by sanction successful the article, but the Pirates of the Caribbean sued her for defamation, and aft a highly-publicized trial played retired wherever Johnny had a ton of nationalist support, he won.

Johnny also appealed portion of the verdict successful the case, wherever helium was ordered to wage Amber $2 cardinal successful damages. Amber had countersued Johnny and claimed that helium defamed her done 3 statements made by his lawyer to DailyMail. One of the 3 statements was recovered to beryllium defamatory successful court, which Johnny is present appealing.  

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