Heard then counter-sued against Depp to $100 million, adding even further media coverage to the trial.
Ultimately, in 2022, a jury found in favour of both Depp’s original suit, awarding Depp $10.35 million in damages, while Heard received $2 million after winning one of her three counter-claims against her ex.
Some three years later, Depp has been speaking to The Sunday Times about his relationship with Heard.
“If you’re a sucker like I am, sometimes you look in a person’s eye and see some sadness, some lonely thing and you feel you can help that person,” the actor said.
“But no good deed goes unpunished, because there are those who, when you try to love and help them, will start to give you an understanding of what that malaise, that perturbance was in their eyes. It manifests itself in other ways.
