Amber Heard is set to give her first TV interview since her high-profile legal wrangle with ex-husband Johnny Depp. The former Pirates of the Caribbean actor sued Heard for defamation.
The $50 million lawsuit focussed around a piece Heard wrote for the Washington Post entitled “I spoke up against sexual violence –and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” Depp said the piece suggested he had abused Heard.
But the star emerged victorious in his lawsuit. Heard however was partially successful in her counter lawsuit, with the trial ending with three days of jury deliberation.
The Independent now reports Heard is set to give a sit-down interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie, which was recorded on 9 June. In it, Heard is expected to say she does not blame the jury.
She also addressed the 'meme-ification' of the high-profile trial. She told Deadline: "I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors. I don’t presume the average person should know those things. And so I don’t take it personally.
“But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation. You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”
“Johnny Depp’s legal team blanketed the media for days after the verdict with numerous statements and interviews on television, and Depp himself did the same on social media,” a spokesperson for Heard said.
“Ms Heard simply intended to respond to what they aggressively did last week; she did so by expressing her thoughts and feelings, much of which she was not allowed to do on the witness stand.”
Deadline says the interview was recorded away from NBC's 30 Rock HQ to maintain maximum security. Reports say it was also shrouded in secrecy.
The jury awarded Depp $10m in compensation and $5 million in punitive damages following the lawsuit. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages.
The NBC special is set to air tomorrow (June 14) and Wednesday on NBC's TODAY. The full interview will be shown on Friday, June 17, on Dateline NBC at 8pm ET.
