Sharon Osbourne has come out in support of Johnny Depp after the actor won his high-profile libel case against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 58, was awarded compensatory damages of $10million (£8 million) and a further $5 million (£4 million) in punitive damages by a jury yesterday.
The jury ruled that Amber's op-ed article, titled 'I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change', for the Washington Post about domestic violence had been defamatory.
Following the verdict, The Talks' Sharon reacted to the news after spending the evening with the actor at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Giving her opinion to Piers Morgan Uncensored, she said: "Wow, it wasn’t what I was expecting. I mean, I wanted Johnny to win but I didn’t expect him to."
She went on to give a recall a moment she witnessed between him and a little girl, calling him a 'gentle soul'.
"I can tell you last night, he spent about 45 minutes in his dressing room on his knees, talking to this little girl that was reading her diary to him," Sharon continued.
"Now, I don’t know many guys that would sit back and do that. There weren’t any cameras around there were no film crews.
"He did it because he’s a gentle soul. He wanted this little girl to read the diary for him and she did."
Sharon added: "She must have been all of eight years of age. And the thing is, he is a gentle soul but we know what alcohol and drugs do when you mix them together, they change you.
"Sometimes, I suppose, he lost his rag, but as a human being he’s a good human being."
However, Sharon believes that Amber and Johnny's relationship was 'toxic', but said Amber wanted to 'destroy' Johnny.
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"For me, I related to it so much and I know alcoholic behaviour inside out and backwards… but they were both abusive, both very, very abusive to each other," the star explained.
"At any time she could have left. She wasn’t a little wall flower, she was a mover and shaker in town. The world really did want him to win and he’s won and that’s it."
After the jury came to a conclusion, Johnny released a statement on his Instagram page thanking fans for their support and said that the 'jury had given his life back'.
Meanwhile, Aquaman actress Amber said that she felt "heartbroken" by the ruling, adding she was “sadder still” that she had “lost a right” to “speak freely and openly”.
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