Amber Heard Is Focused on 'Work That Helped Me Heal After My Divorce' amid Johnny Depp Settlement

Mar. 16, 2025

Amber Heard.Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty

Amber Heard attends the Saint Laurent Mens Spring Summer 20 Show on June 06, 2019 in Paradise Cove Malibu, California.

On Monday, as Heard, 36, announced she had made “a very difficult decision” to settle the case, the actress shared that she is “also choosing the freedom to dedicate my time to the work that helped me heal after my divorce” from Depp, 59, who was awarded more than $10 million in damages after a seven-person jury found that Heard defamed Depp in her 2018 op-ed about domestic violence.

TheAquamanactress wrote onInstagramthat she will focus on “work that exists in realms in which I feel seen, heard and believed, and in which I know I can effect change,” after the decision to settle, which comes weeks after sheappealed the defamation verdictin November.

“Time is precious and I want to spend my time productively and purposefully,” Heard wrote elsewhere in the statement. “For too many years I have been caged in an arduous and expensive legal process, which has shown itself unable to protect me and my right to free speech.”

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Johnny Depp; Amber Heard.Steve Helber/POOL/AFP/Getty; JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP/Getty

Johnny Depp testifies in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 25, 2022. - Actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” (Photo by Steve Helber / POOL / AFP) (Photo by STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images); Amber Heard arrives in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 3, 2022. - US actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” (Photo by JIM WATSON / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Heard, who most recently appeared onscreen in the 2019 movieGully, the 2020 CBS miniseriesThe StandandZack Snyder’s Justice League, is scheduled to appear in the upcomingAquaman and the Lost KingdomandIn the Fire, both in post-production, according toIMDB.

The actress previously denied a report in June thatshe had been removed from theAquamansequel, which is set to hit theaters in March 2023.

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“The rumor mill continues as it has from day one — inaccurate, insensitive, and slightly insane,” a spokesperson for Heard told PEOPLE in response to aJust Jaredreport that claimed sources told the outlet that Heard is “being cut out of” the movie.

source: people.com

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