Depp Lawyers: Amber Heard Didn't Take Accountability For 'Anything'

MOMENT BUT FIRST A LOOK BACK AT HOW THIS HIGH PROFILE CASE UNFOLDED. A TRIAL WATCHED BY MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD ENDING IN A STUNNING VERDICT IN FAVOR OF JOHNNY DEPP. LAST WEEK A JURY FOUND DEPP'S EX-WIFE HAD DEFAMED HIM IN A 2018 "WASHINGTON POST" OP ED. SHE'S BEEN ORDERED TO PAY MORE THAN $10 MILLION IN DAMAGES. HEARD WHO PLANS TO APPEAL WON JUST ONE OF THREE GAMES THE COUNTERLAWSUIT OF DEPTH AND WAS AWARDED JUST $2 MILLION IN DAMAGES. DEPP'S LAWYERS BECAME PUBLIC FILGZ IN THEIR OWN RIGHT DURING THE TRIAL. LEGIONS OF VIEWERS ON YOUTUBE AND SOCIAL MEDIA HANGING ON EVERY WORD AND GESTURE. >> MISS HEARD TOLD YOU SHE HAS MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE OF ABUSE. BUT THERE ARE NO MEDICAL RECORDS. >> MISS HEARD LIES. ALL THE TIME. >> HEARD'S TEAM LELGD A COORDINATED SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN BY DEPP'S SIDE TURNING PUBLIC OPINION AND ULTIMATELY THE JURY AGAINST THEY ARE. >> THEY WENT HOME EVERY NIGHT. THEY HAVE FAMILIES. THE FAMILIES ARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. WE HAD A TEN DAY BREAK IN THE MIDDLE BECAUSE OF THE JUDICIAL CONFERENCE. THERE IS NO WAY THEY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY. >> A CHARGE DEPP'S TEAM DENIES SAYING THE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT FOR THE ACTOR IS NOTHING BUT AUTHENTIC. DEPP THANKED REPORTERS YESTERDAY ON A NEW HI CREATED TIKTOK ACCOUNT WRITING WE DID THE RIGHT THING TOGETHER ALL BECAUSE YOU CARED. AND JOINING US NOW ARE JOHNNY DEPP'S LAWYERS CAMILLE VAZQUEZ AND BENJAMIN SHOE. DID YOU SPEAK TO YOUR CLIENT RIGHT AFTER THE VERDICT? WHAT WAS HIS REACTION IN THE MOMENT? >> I THINK JUST AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF RELIEF. I WAS SPEAKING WITH ANOTHER FRIEND OF OURS, A MUTUAL FRIEND OF JOHNNYS AND OURS AND HE SAID I HAVEN'T SEEN JOHNNY SMILE LIKE THAT IN SIX YEARS. >> THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD OFF HIS SHOULDERS. HE GOT HIS LIFE BACK. >> AS YOU WELL KNOW THE LAW DOES NO IT FAVOR A PLAINTIFF LIKE JOHNNY DEPP IN A DEFAMATION CASE LIKE THIS. THE BURDEN IS HIGH. THE THRESHOLD IS HIGH AND HE CROSSED IT. FRANKLY SPEAKING WERE YOU STUNNED AT THIS VICTORY? >> WE HAD ULTIMATE CONFIDENCE IN JOHNNY AND THE JURY AND THE FACTES OF THIS CASE. AND THE. >> -- RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFAMATION FOR ONE OF THE STATEMENTS MADE BY HIS LAWYER. ACCUSED HER ESSENTIALLY OF STAGING A SCENE IN FURTHERANCE OF AN ABUSE HOAX. HOW DO YOU SQUARE THAT FINDING WITH THE REST OF THE VERDICT, CAMILLE? >> I THINK IT IS JUST THE VERDICT IS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE FOR JOHNNY. CAN IT WAS UNANIMOUS. THERE WERE SEVEN PEOPLE WHO DECIDED HE WAS DEFAMED. >> AMBER HEARD'S TURNED WAS HERE AFTER THE VERDICT AND SAID THE JURY HAD NOT BEEN PERMITTED TO SEE CERTAIN EVIDENCE THAT WOULD HAVE BOLSTERED AND VERIFIED AMBER HEARD'S CLAIMS OF ABUSE IN PARTICULAR THERAPIST NOTES. WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT? AND WAS THERE EVIDENCE EXPRESSED FOR A VALID LEGAL REASON THAT MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE? >> I THINK THAT WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR AND TO HEAR HER INFUME THE CHARACTER OF THE JURY AND THAT THE EVIDENCE CAME IN THAT SHOULD COME IN AND THE JUDGE WAS VERY FAIR TO BOTH SIDES. >> IN PARTICULAR SHE CITES THE UK JUDGMENT. JOHNNY DEPP SUED THE SUN, A NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND LOST THAT CLAIM. THE JUDGE FINDING CLAIMS THAT HE WAS A WIFE BEATER WERE STANLEY TRUE. AND AMBER HEARD SAYING THAT JUDGMENT SHOULD HAVE COME INTO THE COURT CASE. WHAT SAY YOU? >> IT WAS A DIFFERENT PROCESS AND ALSO MR. DEPP AND MS. HEARD IN THESE CASE WERE PARTIES. THEY HAD DIFFERENT DISCLOSURE OBLIGATIONS. -- OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE PRESENTED IN THIS CASE IN VIRGINIA FAR EXCEEDED WHAT WAS PRESENTED IN THE UK AND WE BELIEVE THE JURY GOT IT RIGHT. >> THIS TRIAL WAS CLOSELY WATCHED. SOCIAL MEDIA CERTAINLY TOOK OFF IN WAY THAT WE'VE SEEN HIGH PROFILE TRIALS BEFORE BUT THIS IS THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE. DO YOU BELIEVE THE JURORS SAW ANY OF THAT? WERE SWAYED BY ANY OF THAT. >> NO. I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE JURORS VIOLATED THEIR OATH. AND AGAIN, THAT SUGGESTION WAS DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR. >> YEAH, I MEAN, AMBER HEARD'S LAWYER SAID SO. SHE SAID IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNAVOIDABLE. IT IS ON TIKTOK AND SOCIAL MEDIA. IN THE OLD DAYS YOU TELL THE INJURY BEFORE THEY WENT OUT. DON'T READ NEWSPAPERS, DON'T WATCH THE EVENING NEWS. NOW IT IS EVERY. >> DIMINISHED EVERY SINGLE NIGHT AND HAD TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESPECT FOR THE COURT AND THE PROCESS AND THEY WERE DOING THE BEST THEY COULD. >> SUPPORT FOR JOHNNY DEPP ONLINE WAS EXPONENTIALLY GREATER THAN FOR AMBER HEARD. JUST ONE EXAMPLE ON TIKTOK THE JUSTICE FOR AMBER HEARD HASHTAG HAS 27 MILLION VIEW. JUSTICE FOR JOHNNY DEPP, 20 BILLION. HARDY HEARD ATTORNEYS SUGGESTED THIS IS BECAUSE ON ORCHESTRATED CAMPAIGN ON BEHALF OF JOHNNY DEPP. DO YOU THINK ANYTHING ABOUT THAT? >> THAT IS UTTERLY BASELESS. IN FACT VERY EARLY IN THE CASE THE PRIOR CHIEF JUDGE WHITE HAD THROWN OUT ACCOUNT AND COUNTERCLAIMS THAT RELATED TO THAT. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD AND BASELESS. >> YOU KNOW FOR A FACT NEITHER HE OR HIS AGENTS OR ANYONE TRIED TO IN SOME WAY PAY FOR OR OTHERWISE ENCOURAGE THIS KIND OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY. >> CATEGORICALLY FALSE. >> WHY DO YOU THINK THE JURY DIDN'T BELIEVE HERE? WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE VERDICT IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO THAT. THE ISSUE IS IS WHAT SHE SAYING TRY I OR FALSE AND BY THEIR VERDICT THEY SAID IT IS FALSE. >> MY POSITION IS IT HAD A LOT TO DO WITH ACCOUNTABILITY. JOHNNY OWNED HIS ISSUES. HE WAS CANDID ABOUT HIS ALCOHOL AND DRUG ISSUES AND CANDID ABOUT SOME UNFORTUNATE TEXTS SHE WROTE AND I THINK IT WAS A SHARP CONTRAST TO MS. HEARD WHO DIDN'T SEEM OAR AT LEAST THE JURY MAY HAVE PERCEIVED SHE DIDN'T TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ANYTHING. >> CLOSELY WATCHED IN THE #METOO CONTEXT PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED WHETHER THERE IS A LARGER RESONANCE TO THIS TRIAL, WHETHER IT SENDS A MESSAGE. DO YOU SEE ANY LARGER MESSAGE BEYOND THE CASE YOU TRIED? >> NO. FRANKLY WE DON'T. WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE CASE WE TRIED. WE ENCOURAGE ALL THE VICTIMS TO COME FORWARD, HAVE THEIR DAY IN COURT WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE. >> DO YOU FEEL CONFIDENT IN YOUR APPEAL? MS. HEARD DOES INTEND TO APPEAL. >> WE VERY CONFIDENT. >> NOT SINCE O.J. HAS THE TRIAL BECOME SO CLOSELY WATCHED AND THE LAWYERS BECAME FAMOUS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. WHAT HAS THAT BEEN LIKE FOR YOU? PARTICULARLY YOU CAMILLE IT. THINK I SAW SOMEONE ON SOCIAL MEDIA GET A TATTOO OF YOUR FACE ON THEIR BODY. WHICH IS WEIRD. >> ITS BEEN OVERWHELMING AND SURREAL. BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT I CAN ENCOURAGE YOUNG WOMEN TO STAY IN SCHOOL AND MAYBE INSPIRE THEM TO PURSUE A LEGAL CAREER, THEN IT IS ALL WORTH IT. >> I UNDERSTAND YOU GOT TO PROMOTION YESTERDAY TO PARTNER. >> WELL-DESERVED. >> ABOUT TIME I WAS GONNA

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Length: 7min 55sec (475 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 08 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/imagine_universe]

If it was all-male lawyers for JD, they would have said, no women lawyer would ever represent him, because he is against women. Now, since there were women lawyers for him, people say those women did that so as not to get raped! Smh!

[u/TheRussianDoll]

Pure class! Happy for them and well deserved promotion for her!

[u/KrisMisZ]

The verbiage is just disgusting from these “news outlets” I can’t even sit through their intros

[u/ofrm1]

Holy shit. She made partner on this trial? That's awesome. Good for her.

[u/DonEscupitajo]

That are both so Adorable!

[u/BravoWhore]

Camille is a rockstar!

[u/jnstevens47]

Professionalism after a trial? Couldn’t be Elaine.

[u/fallendauntless88]

LOL Im sorry but the amount of videos about her isn't because of Johnny Depp. I know people that don't even like him that think she's a liar so nice try HEARD

[u/nuckle]

Camille talking about the tattoo person and her promotion was so adorable. ❤️❤️