One of the jurors in the defamation suit between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp has revealed that he made them “uncomfortable” while in the stands and that many of the jury found their emotional responses full of “crocodile tears.”
The claim comes from one of five male members of the seven-person jury who spoke anonymously to ABC. Good morning America Thursday.
“The tears, the facial expressions he had, his gaze fixed on the jury. We were all very uncomfortable, “the jury said GMA. “She answered a question and cried, and two seconds later it became icy. Some of us used the expression ‘crocodile tears’.”
In comparison, the jury said, Depp seemed calmer and more credible.
“It seemed a little more real in terms of how I answered the questions,” the jury said. “Her emotional state was very stable all the time.”
Heard said this week that he did not believe he was a “sympathetic victim,” but that he hoped the jury would consider Depp’s 2016 text message to his former agent in which he pledged to cause “total global humiliation.” “to Heard after she filed a restraining order. order against him and divorce him.
“I’m not a ‘good victim,’ I understand. I’m not a nice victim. I’m not a perfect victim,” Heard told NBC. Today show. “But when I testified, I asked the jury to see me as human and to hear their own words, which is a promise to do that. It seems like it is.”
However, the jury said GMA that he believed the couple was abusing each other, but that Heard did not have enough evidence to support his allegations of physical abuse.
“Much of Amber’s story didn’t add up and most of the jury felt she was more of the aggressor,” the jury said.