TheQuartering [6/15/2022]
Amber Heard admitted that she “absolutely” still loves her ex-husband Johnny Depp — despite accusing the actor of shocking abuse and acknowledging he brought her “total global humiliation.”
“Yes. Yes. Absolutely. I love him,” Heard, 36, told NBC News in her first interview after being ordered to pay her Hollywood superstar ex $10.4 million for defamation.
“I loved him and all my heart. And I tried the best I could to make a deeply broken relationship work,” she said of their “ugly” and “very toxic” marriage.
“And I couldn’t,” she told Savannah Guthrie in a clip that aired Wednesday on the “Today” show.
“I have no bad feelings or ill will towards him at all,” she insisted of Depp.
“I know that might be hard to understand, or it might be really easy to understand — if you’ve ever loved anyone, it should be easy.”
Still, she admitted that the trial fulfilled Depp’s promise in a text message that she would see “total global humiliation” if she pressed ahead with her accusations.
“I know he promised it … it feels as though he has,” she said after a long pause, admitting she was “not a likable victim” on the stand.
“Of course, I took for granted what I assume was my right to speak,” she said of her op-ed about being a survivor of domestic violence.
She insisted that the Washington Post “op-ed wasn’t about my relationship with Johnny.”
“What the op-ed was about was me loaning my voice to a bigger cultural conversation that we were having at the time,” she said of the wave of #MeToo accusations.
“It was important for me not to make it about him, or to do anything like defame him,” she insisted of the piece that led to her downfall.