Hollywood actress Amber Heard is seeking a fresh defamation trial against her estranged ex-husband Johnny Depp months after a $10 million defamation verdict slammed against her.
The 36-year-old thespian has filed court documents which say she is seeking the verdict in the defamation case to be reversed, or wants an entirely new trial.
Amber Heard in the appeal she filed last month argued that the exclusion of her therapy notes, in which she reported being abused by Depp, resulted in an unfair trial.
In the new 68-page document dated to late November, Heard’s attorneys write that the court ‘improperly prevented the jury from considering several instances in which Heard reported Depp’s abuse to a medical professional.’
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‘’If not reversed, the trial court’s exclusion of contemporaneous reports of domestic abuse to medical professionals will make it more difficult for other abuse victims to prove allegations of abuse, and likely deter them from coming forward,” they continued.
‘’That holding, if allowed to stand, undoubtedly will have a chilling effect on other women who wish to speak about abuse involving powerful men.’
‘’This case also should never have gone to trial because another court had already concluded that Depp abused Heard on multiple occasions,’ wrote Heard’s lawyers, referring to the United Kingdom High Court of Justice’s ruling in a separate defamation suit brought by Depp that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor had abused his ex-wife.’’ The document read in part.
