Therapist’s Notes Would Have Led To Completely different Verdict In Trial, Says Amber Heard

Johnny Depp’s spokesperson has denied Amber Heard’s allegations of bodily abuse.

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Hollywood actor Amber Heard has acknowledged throughout a latest interview that notes taken by her therapist, to whom she was reporting the abuse, would have modified the decision of her defamation case in opposition to ex-husband Johnny Depp.

In response to The Hollywood Reporter, the assertion relating to the notes, which weren’t allowed through the trial, was made by her throughout an interview with {a magazine}.

She mentioned, “There is a binder [of] years of notes relationship again to 2011 from the very starting of my relationship that have been taken by my physician.”

In Amber Heard’s full interview in regards to the trial with NBC Information’ Savannah Guthrie, the actor mentioned that the notes would have corroborated claims that Johnny Depp abused her, together with an incident in 2013 during which she advised her therapist that Johnny Depp threw her in opposition to a wall and threatened to kill her.

“I am speaking about what occurred to me in real-time. She’s taking contemporaneous notes of what is taking place,” Heard mentioned.

Savannah Guthrie mentioned that they reviewed the notes they usually confirmed “that way back to 2012, Amber was speaking about bodily abuse. In January of that yr, she advised her therapist Johnny Depp hit her and threw her on the ground. Eight months after that, ripped her nightgown, threw her on mattress, and in 2013, he threw her in opposition to a wall and threatened to kill her.”

The Hollywood Reporter reported that Johnny Depp’s spokesperson has denied Amber Heard’s allegations of bodily abuse, saying, “It is unlucky that the defendant and her crew are again to repeating and reimagining and re-litigating issues which have already been determined by the courtroom.”

After the latest six-week trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, a seven-person jury reached a verdict on June 1, deciding that Johnny Depp, proved that Amber Heard defamed him within the 2018 op-ed. Johnny Depp has maintained that he by no means assaulted Amber Heard and claimed she bodily harmed him.

The jury awarded Johnny Depp USD 15 million in damages however Amber Heard will solely must pay USD 10.35 million because of a Virginia regulation limiting punitive damages (the choose diminished the quantity). In her countersuit, Amber Heard received one of many three defamation counts and was awarded USD 2 million in damages, based on Folks journal.

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