Amber Heard Says She Can’t ‘Blame’ Jury for Believing Johny Depp: ‘He’s a Fantastic Actor’
thewrap.comToday for an exclusive interview airing Tuesday and Wednesday on NBC (watch the video preview clip below).“They had sat in those seats and heard over three weeks of no stop relentless testimony from paid employees,” she continued. “I don’t blame them, I actually understand.
He’s a beloved character. People feel that they know him. He’s a fantastic actor.”Heard seemed to believe what her attorneys said after the verdict: that social media, heavily tilted in Depp’s favor across platforms, somehow influenced a jury that was instructed daily not to look at any of it.“I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors.
I don’t presume the average person should know those things. And so I don’t take it personally. But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation.
You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”In the portion shared by NBC, Heard is careful not to re-litigate her abuse claims in the media spotlight – the thing that got her into court in the first place.
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