Amber Heard said throughout a Dateline interview that notes taken by her doctor, who she modified into as soon as reporting abuse to, would bear led jurors to aspect with her in her defamation case against Johnny Depp if they had been allowed into the trial.
“There’s a binder [of] years of notes relationship wait on to 2011 from the very origin of my relationship that had been taken by my doctor,” Heard said.
In Heard’s stout interview with with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie on the trial, which aired on the newsmagazine on Friday, the actress said that the notes would bear corroborated claims that Depp abused her, in conjunction with an incident in 2013 by which she told her therapist that Depp threw her against a wall and threatened to abolish her.
“I’m speaking about what took jam to me in precise time,” Heard said. “She’s taking contemporaneous notes of what’s occurring.”
The notes had been reviewed by NBC. Guthrie said, “As far wait on as 2012, Amber modified into as soon as speaking about physical abuse. In January of that 365 days, she told her therapist Depp hit her, threw her on the bottom. Eight months after that, ripped her nightgown, threw her on mattress.”
Narrate Penney Azcarate had dominated the notes as “rumour” and refused to allow the proof into the trial, no longer like complaints in the UK, the build Depp misplaced his defamation case against The Solar for calling him a “wife beater.” In that trial, the take dominated that The Solar proved that 12 of the 14 incidents of abuse had been substantially correct.
Heard additionally took misfortune with texts that weren’t allowed into the trial. In a single to her father, she wrote that Depp “kicked me in front of everyone.” She modified into as soon as regarding a fight heavily litigated in the trial by which she claimed that Depp modified into as soon as intoxicated and verbally and physically abused her.
A spokesperson for Depp told NBC News: “It’s depressed that while Johnny is having a leer to journey forward alongside with his life, the defendant and her crew are wait on to repeating, reimagining and re-litigating issues that bear already been determined by the Court docket and a verdict that modified into as soon as unanimously and unequivocally determined by a jury in Johnny’s settle on.”
In a press free up got by The Hollywood Reporter, a spokesperson for Heard said in response, “If Mr. Depp or his crew bear an misfortune with this, we recommend that Johnny himself sit down down with Savannah Guthrie for an hour and resolution all her questions.”
Within the portions that previously aired on Right this moment time, Heard spoke of the emotional toll of the verdict, which seen a Virginia jury ruling in Depp’s settle on and awarding him $10.35 million in his swimsuit against Heard. And while she vehemently stood by her testimony, she additionally said she didn’t “blame” the jury for no longer believing her claims of abuse, given the fandom surrounding the trial. “Even in case you mediate that I’m lying, you tranquil couldn’t leer me in the come true by device of and present me that you mediate on social media there’s been a fair correct-attempting illustration,” she said, in portion.
Whereas clips aired on Right this moment time, the stout sit down-down aired in a special Dateline episode Friday. The first 20 minutes of the interview launched early Friday on Peacock, the network’s streaming jam, and the portion comprises original proof that Heard’s attorneys shared with NBC News.
On June 1, the Virginia jury dominated in Depp’s settle on on all three claims that he modified into as soon as defamed when Heard wrote an op-ed in The Washington Submit by which she known as herself a home abuse survivor. He modified into as soon as additionally largely vindicated of allegations that he defamed Heard by calling her accusations a hoax. Heard acquired indubitably one of her three claims that a press free up from Depp’s attorney modified into as soon as defamatory.
Heard’s NBC News interview follows morning focus on-expose appearances from both Heard’s and Depp’s attorneys following the verdict.
Heard plans to attraction and journey on, as she discussed in the portions of her interview that aired this week on Right this moment time. “I will continue to bolt by device of this with my chin up,” she told Guthrie.
In direction of the discontinue of the interview, Heard modified into as soon as asked how she sees her future and whether or no longer she tranquil needs to behave.
“I secure to be a mother,” Heard replied. “I secure to be a mother stout-time.”