Amber Heard and Johnny Depp made headlines after the legal battle that went on for six years. In her petition, she revealed that she was a victim of domestic violence. The public trial in Virginia court ended up in favor of Johnny Depp. On December 19, Amber took to Instagram to reveal that she has decided to settle the case with Johnny Depp. She will be paying Depp $1 million.
In her statement, she wrote, "It's important for me to say that I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimized when they come forward. Now finally have an opportunity to emancipate me from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms, I can agree to. I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward exhausted almost all my resources in advance of and during a trial in which I was subjected to a courtroom in which abundant, direct evidence that corroborated my testimony was excluded and which popularity and power mattered more than reason and due process. In the interim, I was exposed to a type of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live. Even if my US appeal is successful, the best outcome would be a re-trial where a new jury would have to consider the evidence again. I simply cannot go through that for the third time."
