One of the lawyers who represented Amber Heard in the recently-concluded defamation trial against Johnny Depp has revealed what the actress said moments after the verdict was announced on Wednesday.
Speaking on CBS Mornings the day after her client lost out to her former husband, attorney Elaine Bredehoft recalled: "One of the first things she said when she came back from the verdict when we went into the conference room, was 'I am so sorry to all these women.'
"She felt like she had let down all of these women because she had more evidence than most people do. And yet they still didn't believe her."
A seven-person jury decided last week that Heard had defamed Depp on all three counts in his lawsuit against her regarding a December 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post, in which she referred to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse."
This is what Amber Heard apparently said after the verdict was announced (6:05):The jury awarded Depp $15 million, which has since been brought down to $10.35 million due to a matter of Virginia law. Heard did win one count of her counterclaim as a result of Depp's lawyer calling her abuse allegations against the actor a hoax. She was awarded $2 million.
Bredehoft went on to say: "Amber had an enormous amount of evidence, although a lot of it was suppressed in this case as opposed to the UK. But look at all the women who have no evidence.
"All these women who suffer from domestic violence, domestic abuse, and they don't have evidence. And basically what this jury said is unless you pull out your cell phone and you tape record your spouse beating you, you're out of luck."
The attorney said that unlike Depp's 2020 libel lawsuit against UK newspaper, The Sun, evidence was suppressed in the six-week Virginia trial. Depp ultimately lost his trial against The Sun, who he sued for branding him a "wife-beater" in an article.
"What they learned from the UK case is to demonize Amber, which is what they did, and to try to suppress as much of the evidence that came in in the UK and did not come in in the United States," Bredehoft added.
