Celebrity actress Amber Heard publicly accused her ex-husband, celebrity actor Johnny Depp of physical abuse, during an explosive TV interview with Savannah Guthrie of NBC’s Today show. She insisted that she will “stand by every word of her testimony… until the day she dies,” less than two weeks after was declared guilty of defaming the actor.
During the second of the three-part interview, which was pre-recorded on Thursday, Heard referred to Depp as a “fantastic actor” who “convinced the world he had scissors for fingers,” a strange reference to his performance in Tim Burton’s 1990 film as Edward Scissorhands.
The 36-year-old actress branded Depp as a ‘fraud’ and repeated her accusations that he abused her during their marriage while speaking out against the ‘unfair’ judgment in the former couple’s $8 million defamation dispute.
When asked about her thoughts on allegations made by Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez that she had been ‘performing’ on the witness stand and that she lied about the abuse, the Aquaman star quickly clapped back. She said that she had been termed as a “terrible actress” while Vasquez termed her a star performer. She asked how could she be both.
The celebrity actress also accused Depp’s lawyers of attempting to “distract the jury” from the fundamental concerns during the trial, admitting that they had “done a better job” than her own legal team.
Despite a jury finding Heard guilty on three counts of defamation against him, the actress refused to back down from her claims of abuse against him. Heard also claimed that she had ‘spoken her truth and spoken it to power’ but she had ended up ‘paying the price’ for it.
Guthrie questioned then questioned whether Depp had lied about never hitting her. She agreed that it was a lie. Heard also slammed the witnesses who testified in the actor’s favor, calling them “paid employees and randos” and accusing them of being a “filing rank.”
While the celebrity insisted that she never “instigated” any violence in her relationship, she did acknowledge behaving in terrible, almost unrecognizable ways. She told Guthrie that she was pushed to the point where she lost the ability to “differentiate between right and wrong.”
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