Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been in the headlines ever since the defamation trial began. After ending their marriage in 2016, the two battled in court over an opinion piece Amber wrote in The Washington Post in 2018. But did you know, there was a time when Johnny considered himself a “lucky man” to have Amber in his life?
An old interview of the Pirates of the Caribbean actor has resurfaced over the internet. In 2015, during Amber’s film The Danish Girl premiere, Johnny spoke very fondly about Amber. He told Eonline that they connected on a lot of levels. “We connect on a lot of levels but the first thing that really got me was she’s an aficionado of the blues. I would play a song, some old obscure blues song, and she knew what it was. She’s very very literate. She’s a voracious reader as I have been, so we connected on that as well and she’s kind of brilliant and beautiful. I am a lucky man,” he had said.
The former couple had secretly tied the knot in their Los Angeles home in 2015 after dating for several years. On May 23, 2016, Amber filed for divorce and also had secured a temporary restraining order against him. She had alleged that Johnny physically abused her during their relationship, which often happened, while the actor was high on drugs or alcohol.
The court trial began in April, this year. The verdict was announced on June 1, in favour of Depp. The jury awarded Johnny Depp USD 15 million dollars in damages and Amber also won a part of her libel case against Johnny and was awarded USD two million in damages.
As for those unfamiliar with the lawsuit, Depp sued Heard for USD 50 million on charges of defamation, of which he has won USD 15 million, as she wrote an Op-Ed in 2018 in The Washington Post which painted her as the “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Though she did not mention Depp’s name in her opinion piece it was clear that the defamatory article was pointing toward him, the ex-husband she divorced on charges of domestic violence in 2016. After Depp’s claim, Heard counter-sued him for USD 100 million for three statements made by the actor’s previous attorney Adam Waldman in an exclusive to Daily Mail
Meanwhile, Johnny is back at work, there are media reports that Johnny will feature as French King Louis XV in his next film Jeanne du Barry. The historical drama is said to be helmed by French filmmaker Maiwenn.
