Amber Heard is "absolutely not" able to pay damages owed to Johnny Depp, according to her attorney, who also claimed the jury was influenced by social media.
On Wednesday, a Virginia judge ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in his defamation lawsuit against ex-wife and fellow Hollywood star Amber Heard, awarding him millions in damages.
Following the verdict, Heard's attorney claimed the jury had been swayed by social media, and revealed that her client would not be able to pay the money she now owed to Depp.
Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages, while Heard was awarded $2 million after winning her countersuit.
On Thursday, Heard's attorney, Elaine Charlson Bredhoft, appeared on the Today Show to discuss the ruling.
When asked if Heard would be able to pay Depp that amount, Bredhoft said simply, "No, absolutely not."
She went on to criticize the spectacle made of the trial by the media, zeroing in on social media, which she claims influenced the jury, despite strict orders from the judge that they not read anything related to the case outside of court.
"There's no way they couldn't have been influenced," Bredhoft said. "It was horrible. It was really, really lop sided. It's like the Roman coliseum, how they viewed this whole case."
She went on to say that she believed Heard had been "demonized" throughout the proceedings, and claimed that "a number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed and it caused the jury to be confused."
According to Bredhoft, Heard has "excellent grounds" to appeal the verdict, and is planning on doing just that.
Depp filed the $50 million lawsuit against Heard, in which he accused her of libeling him in a 2018 op-ed that she wrote for the Washington Post, describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse."
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