Amber Heard ‘Absolutely Not’ Able To Pay Damages

Web Desk — Amber Heard is unable to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million in damages, said her lawyer after a US jury sided with the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor in a bitter defamation suit.

During the high-profile televised trial, a seven-person jury ruled that Depp and Heard had defamed each other, but found in favor of Depp. After a six-week trial including accusations and counterclaims of domestic abuse, the jury awarded him $10.35 million in damages, compared to $2 million awarded to Heard.

Asked on NBC’s TODAY show if Heard will be able to pay up, her attorney Elaine Bredehoft said: “Oh no, absolutely not.” She added that the “Aquaman” star wants to appeal the verdict and “has some excellent grounds for it.”

The 58-year-old Depp, who lost a libel case against the British tabloid The Sun in London in 2020 for calling him a “wife-beater,” celebrated the split verdict in the case as a victory while Heard said she was “heartbroken.” Depp sued Heard over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”

Bredehoft claimed Depp’s legal team worked to “demonize” Heard and suppressed crucial evidence in the trial, preventing the jurors from examining evidence of Depp’s alleged abuse. “A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed, and it caused the jury to be confused,” she said.

“We had an enormous amount of evidence that was suppressed in this case that was in the UK case,” she said. “In the UK case when it came in, Amber won, Mr. Depp lost.” The lawyer said the ruling bodes ill for the MeToo movement and will discourage women from reporting sexual harassment and abuse.