A juror from the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial spoke exclusively to Good Morning America about the trial verdict, which ruled that Heard slandered Depp when she wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in 2018 referring to her past allegations of domestic violence. Heard was ordered to pay $10.35 million in damages to Depp as a result. The juror, one of five men on a seven-person jury, told “GMA” that Heard’s emotional testimony during the trial was not factual.
“Crying, her expression, staring at the jury. We all felt very uncomfortable,” said the juror. “She was answering one question and she was crying and two seconds later she would freeze. Some of us have used the expression “crocodile tears”.
“A lot of the jury felt what [Depp] He was saying, at the end of the day, he was more believable,” the juror added. “He seemed more realistic in terms of the way he was responding to questions. His emotional state has been very stable the whole time.”
Heard’s team has repeatedly claimed that social media and all the vitriol against Heard on platforms like TikTok swayed the jury in Depp’s favour. As Heard told NBC News this week, “I think even the most well-meaning juror…it was impossible to avoid.”
The juror denied such accusations about social media, saying, “We followed the evidence… The other jurors and I don’t use Twitter or Facebook. Others who put that up were careful not to talk about it.”
The juror concluded, “What I think is true is that they were abusive to each other.” “I don’t think that makes either of them right or wrong…but in order to live up to what she was claiming, there wasn’t enough or any evidence to really support what she was saying.”
The jury noted that one of Heard’s “fiasco” during the trial was the revelation that she had not yet donated $7 million to her divorce settlement to charity despite her claim to do so.
The juror said: “She went on a talk show in the UK and the video shows her sitting there telling the host she gave all that money.” “The term she used in this video is ‘You donated it, you donated it, it’s over.’ But the truth is that she didn’t give up much of it at all.”
Heard told NBC News that she “pledged” the $7 million settlement to charities and remains committed to donating it over time.
Watch the full jury interview with “Good Morning America” in the video below.
EXCLUSIVE: A juror in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial says what the jury concluded was “they were abusive to each other” but Heard’s team failed to prove that Depp’s abuse was physical. https://t.co/Ax4SMZUq2J pic.twitter.com/EMiMeqh5pn
Good Morning America (GMA) June 16, 2022
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