Amber Heard settles a Defamation Claim against Johnny Depp

Amber HurdShe and her ex-husband settled a multimillion-dollar American defamation case Johnny Depp.

“After much deliberation I have made the very hard decision to settle my exhusband’s lawsuit against me in Virginia,” she wrote in a statement on Instagram.

Aquaman rep wrote, “It’s important to me to say that this was not my choice.” “I stood up for my right, and in doing so ruined my life as I knew it.

“The defamation I encountered on social media is an amplified version of the ways women are re-victimized when they come forward.

“Now, I have the chance to release myself from something that I tried to let go of six years ago. And it’s on terms I can accept. I haven’t confessed. This is not an act privilege. My voice is free from any strings or gags.

Depp sued Heard for an article she wrote in 2018 for the Washington Post about her experiences with domestic abuse survivors. His lawyers claimed that he falsely accused her of assaulting him.

A jury was elected in June at the Fairfax County Court The verdict returned in his favour He was awarded $10.3m (£8.43m) for damage to his reputation.

Heard attempted to appeal the Depp ruling earlier this month, arguing that it would have a “chilling effect” on other women.

In her Instagram statement, Amber Heard said: “When I stood before a judge in the UK, I was acquitted by a system that is strong, unbiased and fair, where I was protected from having to give the worst moments of my testimony in front of the world’s media, and where the court found I had been subjected to domestic violence.” and sexual.

“In the United States, however, I have exhausted nearly all my resources before and during a courtroom trial in which abundant and direct evidence in support of my testimony has been excluded and in which popularity and authority have been more important than reason and due process of law. I have been subjected a humiliation that I cannot simply live again.

“Even if my appeal in the United States were to succeed, the best outcome would be a retrial where a new jury would have to consider the evidence again. I simply cannot go through that a third time.”

Hurd added: “I have been locked up for many years in an arduous and expensive legal process, which has shown to be incapable of protecting me and my right to freedom of expression.

“I cannot afford to risk an impossible bill — a bill that is not only financial, but also psychological, physical and emotional. No woman should face abuse or bankruptcy for speaking her truth, but unfortunately that is not uncommon.”