Judging his trial against Johnny Depp “unfair”, Amber Heard had recently decided to appeal. However, the star of “Aquaman” has decided to finally drop his legal proceedings, as she indicated on Instagram.
Almost eight months after facing her former companion Johnny Depp in court in Fairfax, Virginia, Amber Heard decided, in early December 2022, to appeal of his conviction for defamation. Only a few days after this announcement, Oonagh’s mother Paige Heard announced in a statement posted on her Instagram account that she had taken “a very difficult decision” in finally giving up to embark on a new legal battle: “It’s important for me to say that I never chose that. I stood up for my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of how women are re-victimized when they come forward.”
After his bitter legal battle with Johnny Depp, Amber Heard has decided to go into exile on the island of Majorca, in Spain, in order to escape the media rush. A hubbub which would therefore also have pushed her to give up appealing, as she clarified on the Web: “I am making this decision after losing faith in the US legal system, where my testimony has served as entertainment and media fodder..” And to add:I was exposed to a type of humiliation that I simply cannot experience again. […] Time is precious and I want to use it productively. For too many years I have been locked in arduous and costly legal proceedings, which have proven unable to protect me and my right to freedom of expression.”
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Amber Heard: “The rights of the actress have been violated”
During this highly publicized trial, Amber Heard was ordered to pay $15 million damages (reduced to 10.35 million thanks to a local law capping this kind of conviction), against 2 million dollars for Johnny Depp. A decision against which have castigated the lawyers of the actress who have asked for the reversal of the verdict referring to the fact that one of the seven jurors was not presented at the hearings. “Nowhere in the motion do Amber Heard’s attorneys state how the actress’ rights were violated, or even how this juror issue affected the trial.“, thus indicated Mitra Ahouraian, lawyer specialized in actors’ rightsin an interview with the British site The Independent in July 2022.