Amber Heard posted a statement on Instagram about the 'difficult decision' to settle the defamation case brought against her by Johnny Depp in Virginia.
found that Heard defamed Depp three times in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed and Depp defamed Heard once when his attorney Adam Waldman referred to her allegations as ‘an abuse hoax’, domestic abuse charity Refuge put out a statement warning about the harrowing way the trial was used as content on social media.
‘The verdict sends a chilling message to many survivors of domestic abuse that their experiences are invalid and open to public scrutiny,’ CEO Ruth Davidson said. Now, Amber has condemned the legal system in the US and compared it to the UK system, which is where the 2018 Depp vs News Group Newspapers Ltd took place. In that case, Depp brought a libel suit against NGN for labelling him a ‘wife beater’ in a 2018 article, but the presiding judge ruled that ‘the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms. Heard by Mr.
In the US however, Heard says it was a different story and that even if her US appeal was successful, she would be forced to endure a re-trial saying, ‘I simply cannot go through that for a third time.’Johnny Depp has not yet put out a statement about the settlement, but Grazia have reached out to his team for comment.
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