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A juror within the fiery defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has spoken out—revealing why the Pirates of the Caribbean star received the divisive case.
In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, the nameless male juror defined that it was Heard’s time on the stand that in the end swayed them to aspect along with her ex-husband, whom she alleged bodily, emotionally, and sexually abused her throughout their short-lived union.
The juror stated that they thought Heard’s emotional testimony “didn’t add up,” main them to imagine it was the Aquaman actress who was the “aggressor” within the relationship.
“The crying, the facial expressions that she had, the staring on the jury—all of us had been very uncomfortable,” the juror advised ABC. “She would reply one query and she or he could be crying after which two seconds later she would flip ice chilly… A few of us used the expression ‘crocodile tears.’”
Finally, the jury of 5 males and two girls concluded that Heard defamed Depp when she penned a 2018 Washington Submit op-ed that described herself as a home violence survivor, and awarded the actor $10 million. The jury additionally awarded Heard $2 million in compensatory damages after discovering she was defamed by Depp’s ex-attorney, Adam Waldman, who had described her abuse claims as a “hoax.”
A spokesperson for Heard declined to touch upon Thursday to the juror’s interview.
The male juror revealed that he felt each side had been “abusive to one another,” however doesn’t imagine that “that makes both of them proper or flawed.”
“However to rise to the extent of what she was claiming, there wasn’t sufficient or any proof that actually supported what she was saying,” he added.
The revelation that Heard had not donated all of her $7 million divorce settlement to charity regardless of claims on the contrary additionally made her lose credibility, the juror stated.
“She goes on a chat present within the U.Okay. The video reveals her sitting there telling the host that she gave all that cash away, and the phrases she utilized in that video clip had been, ‘I gave it away,’ ‘I donated it,’ ‘It’s gone,’ however the reality is she didn’t give a lot of it away in any respect,” the juror stated, summing up the scenario as “a fiasco” for Heard.
In an interview with NBC Information this week, Heard addressed the continued saga about her unfulfilled vows to provide away her funds, insisting that she “made a pledge, and that the pledge is remodeled time by its nature.” The actress added that regardless that the trial “forged [aspersions] on who I'm as a human,” she will’t “blame” the jury for his or her verdict.
As for Depp’s time on the stand, the juror insisted that the actor was merely “extra plausible.”
“He simply appeared a little bit extra actual when it comes to how he was responding to questions. His emotional state was very secure all through,” the juror stated.