Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial news summary: 15 June 2022
Depp vs Heard: latest news
Depp v Heard aftermath headlines
- Heard tells first interview since trial: I still love Depp
- Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck announce album release and European tour
- Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez made a partner at law firm Brown Rudnick
- Depp tipped for return as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean franchise
- Depp Dior ad triumphs on primetime as fashion house stands by their man
- Depp memorabilia, including a Harely from Cry Baby, to be auctioned
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Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, has said he client will appeal the verdict of her defamation trial against Depp. When might that appeal happen?AS USA's Calum Roche takes a look.
Heard: I still love Depp
Amber Heard has told her interview with the Today Show that she still loves Johnny Depp, despite ending up facing her former husband across the courtroom.
“I love him,” Heard told interviewer Savannah Guthrie, in a clip of the interview broadcast on Wednesday.
“I loved him with all my heart, and I tried the best I could to make a deeply broken relationship work. And… I couldn’t.”
Heard added: “I have no bad feelings or ill-will towards him at all. I know that might be hard to understand - or it might be really easy to understand, if you’ve ever loved anyone. It should be easy.”
AS USA's Will Gittins has put together an overview of some of the more bizarre moments in the trial in Fairfax, Virginia,
AS USA's Jennifer Bubel looks back over some of the defining moments of the Depp vs Heard defamation trial.
Amber Heard insists op-ed was not about Johnny Depp
In an interview with Savannah Guthrie, Amber Heard explains her feelings post-trial and insisted that she holds no resentment towards the jury in the case. She also reiterated her claim that the op-ed she authored in the Washington Post was not specifically about Johnny Depp, insisting that it was simply an opportunity to add her voice to a contemporary cultural moment.
Heard is expected to launch an appeal against the verdict handed down in a Virginia court earlier this month which ordered her to make compensatory payments totalling $15 million to her ex-husband.
Amber Heard must pay Johnny Depp $10.35 million in damages after the much-publicised defamation case in which she accused her ex-husband of abuse. It begs the question whether Heard is in a position to pay such a sum. When asked whether the actress would be able to make the payments to Depp, her attorney, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, answered, “Oh, no. Absolutely not".
Jeff Beck-Johnny Depp's 18 album available for pre-order
18, the new album of cover versions in a collaboration between Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp is now available for pre-order on the British guitarist's official website.
The 12-track collection features classic rock, soul and indie covers and will be available in both vinyl and CD formats. The CD album will go on sale on 15 July while the vinyl version can pre-ordered and will ship from 30 September.
Tracklist:
1. “Midnight walker” (davy spillane cover)
2. “Death and resurrection show” (killing joke cover)
3. “Tme” (dennis wilson cover)
4. “Sad motherfuckin’ parade” (johnny depp original)
5. “Don’t talk (put your head on my shoulder)” (beach boys cover)
6. “This is a song for miss hedy lamarr” (johnny depp original)
7. “Caroline, no” (beach boys cover)
8. “Ooo baby baby” (the miracles cover)
9. “What’s going on” (marvin gaye cover)
10. “Venus in furs” (the velvet underground cover)
11. “Let it be me” (the everly brothers cover)
12. “Stars” (janis ian cover)
13. “Isolation” (john lennon cover)
Depp receives congratulatory call from friend Robert Downey Jr
Josh Richman, a close friend of Depp, told a group of Depp supporters during a charity live stream event that Robert Downey Jr called Johnny Depp to congratulate the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor on his legal victory in the defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.
The two actors spoke over FaceTime, with Downey reportedly telling Depp, "John, thank God it's over."
"I have a lot of sympathy for Amber Heard. I agree with the couple's marriage counsellor that they were both abusive to each other. And there is no question that she was vilified on social media, and she says she had to go into court past blocks and blocks of Johnny Depp superfans holding up signs that she deserved to die. This was an horrific experience for her. She stands by her testimony, my concern for her is, is she going to get hit with a new defamation case, because now she's out there calling him a liar".
Piers Morgan: "The longer Amber Heard talks, the less I believe her,"
News UK host Piers Morgan compared Amber Heard to Megan Markle during today's episode of his Uncensored show. Speaking about the interview which Heard gave to Today, here first public appearance in the media since losing the defamation trial, Morgan said, "When I watched this this morning on the Today show, I've got to be honest with you, my mind went back to Megan Markle's Oprah Winfrey, two-hour whine-a-thon. Because the longer Amber Heard talks, frankly, the more she whines, the more she plays the victim, the more she tries to blame everybody but herself... as with Meghan Markle, the less I believe her. I find here a really incredible, or uncredible witness".
Depp's advice to Jason Donovan after cocaine-induced seizure
Jason Donovan was adviced by Johnny Depp to take things easy after he almost died after bingeing on drugs at Kate Moss' 21st birthday party in LA in January 1995. After spending much of the night snorting lines of cocaine, Donovan collapsed at the the Viper Room while Depp and INXS frontman Michael Hutchence were performing on stage, providing musical entertainment for the guests.
The Neighbours star recalls blacking out and being carried out of the club on a stretcher by paramedics. He was treated by an Australian doctors at Cedars-Sinai hospital but discharged himself three hours later and returned to the hotel where Depp and his girlfriend were holding a small after-party.
Donovan takes up the story, from excerpts of his autobiography Between The Lines: My Story Uncut: "I was so racked with guilt that I had ruined Kate's party, that I knew I had to go and apologise to her. She and Johnny were holding an after-party at my hotel so I knocked on their door. Johnny answered it. "I'm really sorry about what happened, mate," I ventured.
"That's cool, don't worry," he said, patting me on the back. "We're just pleased that you are OK. Now take some advice from me, go to your room, get some sleep and for God's sake take it easy in future." I headed back to my room, tail between my legs. I had made an utter fool of myself. I'd tried to party with the big boys, tried to be so very rock 'n' roll, but all I had done was make a complete f***ing idiot of myself".
Heard not cut from Aquaman 2 - spokesperson
A spokesperson for Amber Heard has denied reports that the actress has been fired from the Aquaman 2, following her defamation trial brought against her by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
A report that Heard's role as Mera, Aquaman’s love interest would be recast went viral after being posted on gossip website Just Jared. However, in a statement to Variety, a member of Heard's close circle denied the rumours, “The rumor mill continues as it has from day one — inaccurate, insensitive and slightly insane.”
Heard says social media 'hate' during Depp trial was 'unfair'
Actress Amber Heard said the "hate" she suffered on social media during the trial against Johnny Depp was "not fair," but insisted she does not blame the jury for taking sides in favor of her ex-husband. "The vast majority of this trial was played out on social media," she argued. "I think that this trial is an example of that gone haywire, gone amok and the jury's not immune to that".
After six weeks in court, a jury awarded Depp more than $10 million in damages and defamation, and $2 million to Heard who had countersued.
The case, which was broadcast live, exposed intimate details about the former Hollywood couple's private life, and Heard became a target on social media.
"I don't presume that the average person should know these things," the actress said in her first wide-ranging interview since the verdict. "And I don't take it personally."
"But even if someone is sure I deserve all this hate, even if they think I'm lying, they couldn't look me in the eye and tell me they think there's been fair representation on social media."
"They can't tell me they think this has been fair," she told US station NBC.
Heard feels social media conditioned the case
Speaking with Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, Amber Heard looks back on her case against former husband Johnny Depp and feels that the influence and impact of social media were key factors in influencing the jurors' verdict.
Depp v Heard live updates: welcome
Good morning and welcome to our daily live blog forWednesday 15 June on the aftermath of the Depp v Heard trial, in which a Virginia jury found that Amber Heard had defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed entitled: "I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change".
Heard was ordered to pay Depp damages of $10.35m, but also won out on one count of her defamation counter-suit against the Pirates of the Caribbean star. She was awarded $2m.