On Thursday, one of the jurors from the tumultuous Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial broke their silence to slam Heard’s claims that the jury was mesmerized by her famous ex and that the verdict was unfair, insisting that they followed the evidence and were ‘uncomfortable’ with her emotional outbursts.
The male juror told GMA that he and the other jurors were ‘uncomfortable’ with how Heard gazed at them during the trial, and that they difficult to trust her when she changed from ‘weeping’ to ‘ice cold.’
He refuted her assertion that it was a social media trial, stating that three of the jurors do not have access to either Facebook or Twitter.
‘The tears, the facial expressions, the glaring at the jury…everyone was quite uncomfortable,’ stated one of the five members of the jury.
Heard has claimed that Depp only won the trial because he is more well-known and liked than she is.
On Thursday, however, the jurors stated that they made their decision based on the facts presented in the case.
‘A lot of her tale didn’t make up… the jurors believed she was the aggressor the most of the time.’ She was sobbing, making facial emotions, and gazing at the jurors. We were all nervous… she’d answer one inquiry by sobbing, then become icy cold two seconds later…
He remarked, “Some of us used the phrase “crocodile tears.”
‘We went by the evidence,’ he explained. He went on to say that he did not think Depp actually struck Heard.
Heard’s admission that she had not contributed her $7 million divorce settlement to charity, as she stated publicly, was one of the jury’s turning factors, he said.
He described the situation as a “fiasco,” adding that although Depp’s legal team was “smart,” Heard’s had “sharp elbows” and came off as aggressive.
‘She appears on a discussion program in the United Kingdom.’
In the footage, she can be seen sitting there assuring the presenter that she had given all of the money away.
‘And the terms she used in the video clip were “I gave it away”, “I donated it”, “it’s gone.”
‘But the fact is she didn’t give much of it away at all,’ the juror said.
Heard said on the stand that she used the terms ‘pledged’ and ‘donated’ interchangeably.
The juror added that he thinks both parties mistreated one another.
‘A lot of the jury felt what he was saying, at the end of the day, was more believable.
‘He just seemed a little more real in terms of how he was responding to questions.
‘His emotional state was very stable throughout,’ the juror said.
‘What I think is truthful is that they were abusive towards each other.
‘I don’t think that makes either of them right or wrong, but to rise to the level of what she was claiming, there wasn’t enough evidence that really supported what she was saying.’
He added that social media did not play a part in the verdict, as Heard has claimed, and that he doesn’t even use it.
‘We followed the evidence. Myself and at least two other jurors don’t use Twitter or Facebook. Others who had it made a point not to talk about it.’
The jury sided with Depp, ruling that Heard did defame him with her 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post in which she described herself as the victim of domestic abuse and violence.
She was ordered to pay Depp $8million in damages after deductions, but now says she can’t afford it.
Despite losing the trial, Heard continues to insist that she is telling the truth and always has been.
Earlier this week, she appeared on TODAY to insist that Depp did beat her, but she said she still loves him.
‘To my dying day, I will stand by every word of my testimony,’ she told Savannah Guthrie, adding that she ‘absolutely’ still loved the actor.
‘I love him. I loved him with all my heart and I tried the best I could to make a deeply broken relationship work. And I couldn’t. I have no bad feelings or ill will towards him at all.
‘I know that might be hard to understand or it might be really easy to understand if you’ve ever loved anyone.’
Heard maintains that it was a trial by social media and that her ex-husband won because he is more popular than her.
When grilled by Guthrie about audio clips that were played during the six-week trial in which the actress could be heard admitting to being physically abusive towards Depp, Heard insisted that she only ever ‘responded to [physical violence]’ but that she ‘never instigated it’.
‘I never had to instigate it, I responded to it,’ she claimed. ‘When you’re living in violence and it becomes normal – as I testified to – you have to adapt.’
Heard added that, while she ‘has so much regret’ over the ‘horrible’ and ‘ugly’ things she did and said to Depp, she was only acting as a ‘person in extreme emotional, psychological, and physical distress’ who felt that their ‘life was at risk’.
Fans were furious with Heard’s televised claims and said she ‘sunk to a new low’ by continuing to ‘lie’ about Depp.