A member of the jury in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation case is speaking out exclusively to ABC News to talk about the trial.
As we previously reported, the actor took Miss Heard to trial, claiming she ruined his reputation by insinuating in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed that she had been the victim of domestic violence. Heard countersued and spent several days on the stand to where she recounted multiple incidents where she said Depp physically and sexually assaulted her during their relationship. Unfortunately for her, the jury in the case largely sided with Depp, finding that Heard defamed Depp on all three statements that she was sued over. Ultimately, Depp was awarded a total of $15 million in damages. However, it wasn’t a clean sweep for him. The jury also found Depp defamed Heard, but only on one of the three statements that she sued him over. She was awarded just $2 million in damages.
The juror, one of five male panelists on the seven-person jury, said Heard’s story “didn’t add up: “The crying, the facial expressions that she had, the staring at the jury. All of us were very uncomfortable,” the juror, who spoke anonymously, told the outlet. “She would answer one question and she would be crying and two seconds later she would turn ice cold … some of us used the expression ‘crocodile tears.’”
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He went on, Ultimately what I think it truthful was that they were both abusive to each other,” the juror said. “I don’t think that makes either of them right or wrong. But to rise to the level of what she was claiming, there wasn’t enough or any evidence that really supported what she was saying.” Depp, he said, “just seemed a little more real in terms of how he responded to questions.”
Heard’s attorney says they plan to file an appeal. While appearing on NBC’s The Today Show this Thursday, attorney Elaine Bredehoft told Savannah Guthri that her client is “absolutely not” able to pay the millions in damages that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor won after a jury deliberated for three days following the trial.
Meanwhile, his lawyers, Camille Vasquez and Benjamin Chew, sat down for an interview on Good Morning America, exactly one week after winning their client’s defamation case. Benjamin expressed that the court case was never about winning millions if the jury were to side with him in the trial. “We obviously can’t disclose attorney-client communications, but as Mr. Depp testified, this was never about money for Mr. Depp,” he said. “This was about restoring his reputation — and he’s done that.”
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