Amber Heard Pays $1M to Settle Case Against Depp: ‘I Never Chose This’
Amber Heard on Monday announced the “very difficult decision to settle” the highly publicized multimillion-dollar defamation case by her ex-husband Johnny Depp.
“It is important for me to say I never chose this,” Heard said in an Instagram post. “I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed.”
The news comes months after a televised seven-week trial, in which jurors found that Heard defamed Depp after she identified herself as a domestic abuse survivor in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. She was ordered to pay over $10 million in damages. The Virginia jury also awarded the Aquaman actress $2 million in compensatory damages after finding she was defamed when Depp’s ex-attorney, Adam Waldman, falsely described her domestic violence claims as a “hoax.”
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