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Star: I told truth about liar Depp
Amber Heard blasted ex-husband Johnny Depp as a liar and insisted she stands by “every word” of her bombshell testimony in a new interview — in which she also took aim at his now-celebrity attorney.
“To my dying day, I will stand by every word in my testimony,” Heard, 36, told the “Today” show’s Savannah Guthrie in a teaser of her hourlong sit-down released Tuesday.
The clip came out hours before a report that claimed Heard was cut from the “Aquaman” sequel and that her role as Mera was being recast — rumors she quickly shot down.
A rep for the actress told The Post that the “rumor mill continues as it has from day one” and said that the article on gossip site JustJared was “inaccurate, insensitive, and slightly insane.”
The outlet quoted an unnamed source saying that “Warner Brothers decided to recast Amber Heard’s role after screen testing the movie,” and that the studio was going to be doing reshoots with stars Jason Momoa and Nicole Kidman.
The flick, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” is set to come out in March 2023. Heard testified during her and Depp’s highly watched defamation case that her part in the movie had been “pared down” due to the ex-couple’s public battle.
In her interview with NBC News, set to air in full on Friday, Heard bluntly said that Depp lied during the trial by denying he ever hit her.
But she conceded that she regrets being so “horrible” during their “very, very toxic” marriage.
“I never had to instigate it — I responded to it,” she insisted to Guthrie, saying that audio clips of their fights were edited and caught a victim of abuse whose life was “at risk.”
“When you’re living in violence and it becomes normal — as I testified to — you have to adapt,” she said of her own actions.
Still, Heard said, “I did do and say horrible, regrettable things throughout my relationship.
“I behaved in horrible, almost unrecognizable to myself, ways.”
Heard also showed clear disdain when Guthrie asked about Depp attorney Camille Vasquez’s repeated argument that the star gave “the performance of her life” and was merely acting in her explosive courtroom testimony.
“Says the lawyer for the man who convinced the world he had scissors for fingers,” Heard shot back, her voice dripping with sarcasm, referring to Depp’s role in 1990’s “Edward Scissorhands.”
“I’m the performer? I had listened to weeks of testimony insinuating that — or saying quite directly — that I’m a terrible actress.
“So I’m a bit confused how I could be both,” she snapped.
Vasquez’s winning performance during the trial made her an unexpected star, as well as a newly promoted partner in her firm.
Heard only mustered backhanded praise for Vasquez when Guthrie bluntly asked her if she thought she lost because Depp “just had better lawyers” than she.
“I will say his lawyers did certainly a better job of distracting the jury from the real issues,” the actress replied, without ever directly naming Vasquez or her colleague Benjamin Chew.
Heard called the six-week trial “the most humiliating and horrible thing I’ve ever been through.”
“I have never felt more removed from my own humanity. I felt less than human,” she said.
“Every single day, I passed for three, four, sometimes six city blocks lined with people holding signs saying, ‘Burn the witch,’ ‘Death to Amber,’ ” she said.
“After three and a half weeks I took the stand and saw a courtroom packed full of Captain Jack Sparrow fans who are vocal, energized,” she said, referring to Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” character.
Heard said that the overwhelming swell of support for her ex ultimately lost her the case.
“I think the vast majority of this trial was played out on social media,” she said.
To my dying day, I will stand by every word in my testimony. — Amber Heard to NBC’s ’ “Today” “on alleged abuse by ex Johnny Depp