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Amber Heard isn’t backing down on her claims that ex-husband Johnny Depp abused her. The Rum Diary actress, 36, revealed in a 20-minute clip launched by NBC’s Dateline on Thursday that she launched years-worth of therapist’s notes detailing abusive acts she suffered by the hands of the Pirates of the Caribbean powerhouse, 58. In accordance with the clip, she handed over a “binder’s value” of notes that “represented years, years of real-time explanations of what was happening,” relationship all the best way again to 2011. “There’s a binder value of years of notes relationship again to 2011 from the very starting of my relationship that have been taken by my physician, who I used to be reporting the abuse to,” Heard mentioned.
The notes, a few of which really seem onscreen, seem to comprise damning claims from 2012 that he “hit her, threw her in opposition to a wall, and threatened to kill her.” The 20-minute clip is a part of a broader sit-down interview with Savannah Guthrie set to air in full on Dateline on Friday night, June 17. In the meantime, Johnny’s camp launched a press release following the conclusion of his prolonged litigation in opposition to the Aquaman co-star.
“It’s unlucky that whereas Johnny is seeking to transfer ahead together with his life, the defendant and her staff are again to repeating, reimagining and re-litigating issues which have already been determined by the Court docket and a verdict that was unanimously and unequivocally determined by the jury in Johnny’s favor,” a rep mentioned per the New York Put up.
Amber instructed Savannah that she additionally desires to maneuver ahead, following Johnny’s devastating loss in opposition to The Solar a UK court docket, his subsequent lack of a high-profile position within the Incredible Beasts franchise, and the Virginia defamation case in opposition to her. “I look ahead to residing my life and I’ve an extended one, I hope, in entrance of me,” Amber mentioned. “And I’ll proceed to stroll by means of this with my chin up.” Her camp has already introduced plans to attraction the Virginia verdict.
Within the interview, Savannah appeared to problem Amber, asking her why a number of witnesses claimed she “instigated” violence with Johnny. “Whenever you’re residing in violence and it turns into regular, as I testified to, it’s important to adapt, you undertake methods to deal with it,” she mentioned. “If it meant, as I testified to, if it meant the distinction between a damaged nostril or a sore cheek, I’d do it.” She added that she “obtained hit for a really very long time earlier than I even knew tips on how to defend myself.”
Responding to the assertion that no one else got here ahead with allegations in opposition to Johnny, Amber mentioned, “Look what occurred to me once I got here ahead. Would you?” And with out hesitation, she mentioned she stands by her phrase. “I do know what occurred to me,” she mentioned. “I’m right here as a survivor. To my dying day I’ll stand by each phrase of my testimony.”
