Amber Heard Awarded $2 Million Despite Losing Defamation Trial

Amid the drama in court as the jury delivered its verdict that Johnny Depp had won the defamation trial, Amber Heard herself was awarded $2 million.

The jury awarded Depp $15 million in total, $10 million in compensatory damages, as well as $5 million in punitive damages. However, Heard won’t be left empty handed.

Scroll on to see why she’s been awarded the money.

Depp’s lawyer, Camile Vasquez, then spoke of Heard’s alleged lies during the cross-examination yesterday.

Vasquez has said that Heard’s “lies have been exposed to the world.”