Amber Heard’s Sister Whitney Just Responded to the Johnny Depp Verdict—’I Know What I Saw’
06.06.2022 - 19:53
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Breaking her silence. Amber Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez, released a statement in support of the Aquaman actress following Johnny Depp’s verdict in his defamation trial against his ex-wife.
On June 1, 2022, a seven-person jury found Heard liable of three counts of defamation as a result of her 2018 Washington Post op-ed about domestic abuse, though she did not mention the Pirates of the Caribbean actor by name in the article. Heard was ordered to pay her ex-husband $10.35 million in damages. Depp, for his part, was ordered to pay $2 million in compensatory damages after being found guilty of one count of defamation in Heard’s countersuit.
Following the Depp verdict, Heard’s sister took to social media to show her support for her older sibling despite her loss against her ex-husband. Keep on reading ahead for Amber Heard’s sister Whitney’s response to the trial.
Amber Heard’s sister Whitney’s response to Johnny Depp’s verdict
Amber Heard’s younger sister, who testified on her behalf during her trial with Johnny Depp, spoke up in defense of the actress in a lengthy Instagram post shared on June 5, 2022.
“I still stand with you, sissy,” Henriquez, 34, began. “Yesterday, today and tomorrow I will always be proud of you for standing up for yourself, for testifying both here in Virginia and in the UK, and for being the voice of so many who can’t speak to the things that happen behind closed doors.”
Henriquez, who was present in the courtroom when the verdict was announced, went on to reveal that she sensed the odds were not in her sister’s favor. “We knew that this was going to be an uphill battle and that the cards were stacked against us. But you stood up and spoke out