Amber Heard Releases Therapy Notes Not Seen During Johnny Depp Trial

On Friday night, Amber Heard will once again sit down with TODAY co-host Savannah Guthrie and talk about her highly publicized trial with ex-husband  Johnny Depp.

Although the Dateline special doesn’t take place until Friday night, a 20-minute-preview clip on Peacock shows that Heard provided NBC with numerous documents from her therapist.

The “Aquaman” actress claims that these documents are her therapy notes from her doctor, that represent “years, years of real-time explanations of what was going on.”

The two didn’t meet until the set of “The Rum Diary” in 2011. She married Depp in 2015 and filed for a restraining order against him in May 2016. Their divorce wasn’t finalized until 2017.

The “Aquaman” actress claims that she presented NBC with “a binder worth of years of notes dating back to 2011 from the very beginning of my relationship that was taken by my doctor, to who I was reporting the abuse to.”

During the trial, Heard had also claimed that she sent messages and pictures of bruises to her mother, Paige Parsons.

Some of the therapy notes document one instance where Heard claims that Depp struck her in 2012. The notes say that Depp “hit her, threw her against a wall, and threatened to kill her.” Of course, these are notes of what Heard told her therapist happened. The therapist was not there to witness the abuse, and so the therapy notes were not admissible as evidence due to hearsay.

A few months later, Heard alleges that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor “ripped her nightgown, threw her on the bed.” Later on, in 2013, Depp reportedly “threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her.”

Although the “Zombieland” actress keeps trying to bring up the drama in the courtroom, a spokesperson for the “Fantastic Beasts” actor told Dateline that he wants to move forward with his life.

In a statement, his spokesperson said, “It’s unfortunate that while Johnny is looking to move forward with his life, the defendant and her team are back to repeating, reimagining, and re-litigating matters that have already been decided by the Court and a verdict that was unanimously and unequivocally decided by the jury in Johnny’s favor.”

Depp had sued Heard for $50 million dollars over a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post, in which Heard declared herself a survivor of domestic violence. Although she did not call Depp out by name, he claims that he lost several movie roles due to the implication that he was her abuser.

It seems that the court agreed and a jury found that defamation had occurred in the controversial op-ed that Heard insisted was never about him. A jury awarded Depp $15 million dollars: $10 million dollars in compensatory damages and $5 million dollars in punitive damages. Those five million dollars were then reduced to $350,000 – the maximum allowed under Virginia state law.

However, Heard had countersued for $100 million dollars after one of Depp’s attorney’s called her abuse claims “a hoax.” The jury found that defamation had occurred in only one of his three statements and awarded Heard $2 million dollars.

Shortly after the verdict was announced, Heard took to social media to call it a “setback” while #JusticeForJohnnyDepp exploded online in what was seen as a clear victory for “The Lone Ranger” actor.

One male member of the seven-person jury told Good Morning America that they ultimately sided with Johnny Depp in the highly publicized defamation trial because Heard "didn't come across as believable" when she was testifying.

The juror said that it "seemed like she was able to flip the switch on her emotions," noting that Heard "would answer one question and she would be crying and two seconds later she would turn ice cold." They added that her behavior "didn’t seem natural.”

Heard's legal team has stated that the jury was influenced by the #JusticeForJohnnyDepp memes and videos that were prevalent on social media throughout the trial. However, the juror claimed that he doesn't have a Twitter account... and says many members of the jury didn't either.

“Social media did not impact us. We followed the evidence,” the juror insisted. “We didn’t take into account anything outside [the courtroom]. We only looked at the evidence… There were very serious accusations and a lot of money involved. So we weren’t taking it lightly.”