Amber Heard says she's 'scared' about more defamation lawsuits from Johnny Depp
- The second part of Amber Heard's "Today" show interview aired on Wednesday.
- Amber Heard told the show that she worries about future defamation lawsuits filed by Johnny Depp.
Amber Heard has said that she worries about the possibility of being sued for defamation again by Johnny Depp in the future.
Heard spoke about her anxiety over the issue during the second part of her interview with the "Today" show's Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday.
"I'm scared that no matter what I do, no matter what I say or how I say it, every step that I take will present another opportunity for this sort of silencing. Which is what a defamation lawsuit is meant to do. It's meant to take your voice," Heard said.
The "Aquaman" actor added that she had previously taken for granted what she said she assumed was her "right to speak."
Heard's discussion with Guthrie is the first sitdown interview she has conducted since the conclusion of her defamation trial with her ex-husband Johnny Depp on June 1. After six weeks of testimony in Fairfax County, Virginia, jurors found both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard liable for defamation against each other.
Depp was awarded $15 million in damages after a jury found that Heard defamed him in a Washington Post op-ed where she outlined her experience with domestic violence. Depp was also found liable for defamation against Heard with the jury awarding the "Aquaman" star $2 million in damages.
Also in the interview with Guthrie, Heard once again said that the op-ed article that she penned for the Washington Post was not about her relationship with Johnny Depp.
"What the op-ed was about was me loaning my voice to a bigger cultural conversation we were having at the time," she said, referring to the #MeToo movement which was at its height in 2018. "I obviously knew it was important for me not to make it about him or defame him. I had teams of lawyers review all the drafts of this."
When asked by Guthrie whether she wanted Depp to be so-called "canceled" by the public when she wrote the article, Heard said no.
"Of course not. Of course not. It wasn't about him," she said.