After Johnny Depp thanked his supporters on TikTok, his ex-wife Amber Heard has now addressed the public for the first time. In an interview with American journalist Savannah Guthrie, the 36-year-old emphasized that she did not want to blame the jury. She only criticized social media. The interview is scheduled to be broadcast on TV on June 14th and 15th.
She would even understand the verdict of the jury. “(Johnny Depp) is a popular guy and people feel like they know him. He’s an amazing actor,” Heard said of her ex-husband. She did not find any positive words about the presentation of the process on social media. But she wouldn’t take the attacks personally.
“I don’t care what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors,” Heard said. But other people wouldn’t need to know these things. “That’s why I don’t take it personally,” she explained.
Heard criticizes social media
Nevertheless, the presentation on platforms like TikTok was “unfair”. “Even if you think I’m lying, you can’t look me in the eye and say the social media portrayal has been fair.” “The Atlantic” has already reported on the one-sided online discourse. For example, on TikTok, videos tagged with the hashtag #JusticeforJohnnyDepp garnered more than 20 billion total views, while #JusticeforAmberHeard only garnered 86 million views.
The defamation trial against Johnny Depp and Amber Heard came to an end on June 1st. The jury was overwhelmingly in favor of the Pirates of the Caribbean star, who was set to receive $10.4 million from his ex-wife. According to Heard’s lawyer, however, she lacks the money. The 36-year-old plans to appeal.