“A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed, and it caused the jury to be confused”, she added.
Amber Heard with ex-husband Johnny Depp. Pic/AFP
‘Aquaman’ actress Amber Heard can not afford to pay USD 10 million in damages to Johnny Depp following the jury’s ruling in Depp’s favour in the defamation trial, her lawyer Elaine Bredehoft instructed ‘Today’.
The defamation trial between Depp and Heard ended on June 1 because the jury dominated that Heard defamed Depp along with her 2018 Washington Post op-ed. When requested by ‘Today’ if Heard would give you the chance to afford the $10 million in damages that she’s being ordered to pay, Bredehoft answered bluntly, “Oh no. Absolutely not.”
Elaine instructed ‘Today’ that she believed Johnny Depp’s authorized crew labored to “demonise” Heard and was ready to suppress “an enormous amount of evidence” in the defamation trial. “A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed, and it caused the jury to be confused”, she added. Bredehoft in contrast the US courtroom’s verdict with a 2020 case in the United Kingdom in which Depp misplaced a libel lawsuit towards the Sun, a British tabloid, for calling him a “wife beater.”
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“And the court found there, and we weren’t allowed to tell the jury this, but the court found that Mr Depp had committed at least 12 acts of domestic violence, including sexual violence against Amber,” Bredehoft stated. “So what did Depp’s team learn from this? Demonise Amber, and suppress the evidence.” Heard, who countersued Depp for USD 100 million, was awarded USD 2 million by the jury after it discovered one assertion by Depp defamatory towards her. Bredehoft stated Heard desires to enchantment the decision.
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