“I will maintain every word until my death”, supports Amber Heard in one of the first excerpts of her interview granted to the program “The Today Show”, broadcast in full this Friday, June 17 on the American channel
NBC
.
After six weeks of an ultra-publicized trial with a damning verdict for the actress, sentenced to pay 10 million dollars to her ex-husband Johnny Depp, the latter spoke publicly about the “unfair” treatment she received. said to have suffered throughout the trial, and about his past relationship.
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Indeed, in a second excerpt from the interview, published in the form of a trailer on the show's website, Amber Heard indulged in a few secrets about her ex-spouse.
"I still love him," she told journalist Savannah Guthrie.
I loved him with all my heart.
I did my best to make a very dysfunctional relationship work."
The Aquaman
actress
also claims to have “no resentment or ill will towards him”.
And to add: “I know that it can seem difficult to understand if you have never loved someone”.
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In the first excerpt from the interview, broadcast on June 15, Amber Heard nevertheless declares to maintain “every word” of her accusations against Johnny Depp – the latter claims to have been the victim of domestic violence during their relationship, between 2011 and 2016. “C It was very, very toxic, we were horrible to each other,” she recalls.
And to continue: "I made a lot of mistakes but I always told the truth."
Not a 'good victim'
The actress also returned to the lynching she suffered during the trial.
"I'm not a good victim, I understand, I'm not a kind victim, I'm not a perfect victim, but I asked the jury to look at me as a human being," she said in the extract.
Asked about her column in the
Washington Post
, published in 2018, in which she spoke of the domestic violence of her ex-husband and which was the subject of this defamation lawsuit, Amber Heard explains that it did not concern her relationship with Johnny Depp.
"It was more about bringing my voice to a larger conversation, which we were having at the time," she says, in reference to the Me Too movement
.
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While his lawyer argued that an appeal trial should be expected, Amber Heard also expressed doubts about the outcome of yet another confrontation.
"I'm afraid that whatever I do, whatever I say, and however I say it, everything represents an opportunity to shut me up," she says.
This is, I suppose, the subject of a libel suit.
Take your voice”.
