Amber Heard: Depp trial is ‘certainly not gonna stop my career’
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mber Heard says the issues in her life she has “been through”, together with her multimillion-dollar US lawsuit with ex-husband Johnny Depp, are “certainly not gonna stop my career”.
The Aquaman star mentioned over time she had discovered that she was “not in control of stories other people create” round her.
Last yr, Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 article she wrote within the Washington Post, which his attorneys mentioned accused him of being an abuser.
Following a six-week trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, jurors returned a verdict within the actor’s favour.
In December, Heard mentioned she had made the “very difficult decision” to succeed in a settlement within the case, which PA understands to be within the quantity of 1 million {dollars}.
She has lately appeared on the Taormina movie pageant in Sicily, to advertise her first main movie for the reason that trial – In The Fire.
The pageant can also be resulting from display Depp’s newest challenge, Jeanne Du Barry.
Speaking to US outlet Deadline after showing on the pageant, Heard addressed the lawsuit, however reiterated that she was on the pageant to “support a movie”.
“A big thing I had to learn, (was) that I’m not in control of stories other people create around me,” she mentioned.
“That’s something that probably I’ll appreciate as a blessing further down the line. Right now, I just kind of want to not have, you know, stones thrown at me so much.
“I’m here to support a movie. And that’s not something I can be sued for.”
Heard added that having had a “decades-long” profession within the trade must have earned her respect for her “improbable” success.
“What I have been through, what I’ve lived through, doesn’t make my career at all,” she advised Deadline.
“And it’s certainly not gonna stop my career.”
Set in 1899, In The Fire follows a 38-year-old American psychiatrist referred to as to unravel the case of a disturbed little one in Columbia, following accusations that the kid is the Devil.