Amber Heard settles defamation case against Johnny Depp - NBC News

Amber Heard has settled her defamation lawsuit against ex-husband Johnny Depp, she announced successful an Instagram station connected Monday.

Heard, 36, called the determination to settee with Depp, 59, "very difficult" adding that it followed "a large woody of deliberation."

"It’s important for maine to accidental that I ne'er chose this. I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic a I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I person faced connected societal media is an amplified mentation of the ways successful which women are re-victimised erstwhile they travel forward," Heard wrote.

In her statement, Heard framed the colony arsenic a past resort, characterizing it arsenic "an accidental to emancipate myself from thing I attempted to permission implicit six years agone and connected presumption I tin hold to."

"I person made nary admission. This is not an enactment of concession. There are nary restrictions oregon gags with respect to my dependable moving forward," she added.

The presumption of the colony were not instantly clear.

The colony comes months aft a weekslong televised trial that culminated with jurors uncovering that Heard had defamed Depp by penning a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post successful which she described being a unfortunate of home unit but did not notation Depp by name. The verdict awarded Depp $10 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $5 cardinal successful punitive damages; Heard was awarded $2 cardinal successful compensatory damages but thing successful punitive damages.

In her statement, Heard drew a opposition betwixt however her lawsuit played retired successful the U.K. and the U.S., penning that she has "lost religion successful the American ineligible system, wherever my unprotected grounds served arsenic amusement and societal media fodder.”

During the trial, posts connected TikTok and Twitter overwhelmingly appeared to favour Depp. Support for Heard was harder to find.

She wrote that successful the U.K., she "was vindicated by a robust, impartial and just system, wherever I was protected from having to springiness the worst moments of my grounds successful beforehand of the world's media, and wherever the tribunal recovered that I was subjected to home and intersexual violence."

In the U.S., however, "I exhausted astir each my resources successful beforehand of and during a proceedings successful which I was taxable to a courtroom successful which abundant, nonstop grounds that corroborated my grounds was excluded and successful which popularity and powerfulness mattered much than crushed and owed process," she added. "In the interim I was exposed to a benignant of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live."

Heard said that settling successful the lawsuit volition let her to walk her clip "productively and purposefully."

"For excessively galore years I person been caged successful an arduous and costly ineligible process, which has shown itself incapable to support maine and my close to escaped speech. I cannot spend to hazard an intolerable measure — 1 that is not conscionable fiscal but besides psychological, carnal and emotional," she wrote. "Women shouldn’t person to look maltreatment oregon bankruptcy for speaking her truth, but unluckily it is not uncommon."

Heard thanked her supporters and her lawyers for their enactment connected the case, and vowed she "will not beryllium threatened, disheartened, oregon dissuaded by what happened from speaking the truth."

"No 1 tin and nary 1 volition instrumentality that from me," she wrote. "My dependable everlastingly remains the astir invaluable plus I have."

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