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Brian Cox ‘feels sorry’ for Amber Heard after Johnny Depp defamation trial loss: ‘She got the rough end of it’-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
He previously criticised Depp.
The actor previously criticised Depp, which he said he regretted (Picture: Getty)
Brian Cox has offered his sympathy to Amber Heard after Johnny Depp won his defamation case against her in June.
The Succession star, who plays patriarch Logan Roy on the hit TV show, which recently snagged more Emmy Awards, said that he ‘feels sorry’ for the actress following the fallout from her highly publicised legal proceedings against her ex-husband.
Walking back some of his criticism of Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp in a new interview – who he previously said he regrets calling ‘overrated’ – Cox said that ‘the public love him’.
Responding to the interviewer’s suggestion that the jury who found in his favour did too, the actor replied: ‘Well, they did.’
He continued to The Times: ‘I feel sorry for the woman [Heard]. I think she got the rough end of it.’
The Aquaman actress was ordered to pay her ex-husband Depp millions in compensatory and punitive damages after a jury in Virginia ruled she had defamed him when she wrote an article in 2018 for The Washington Post titled: ‘I spoke up against sexual violence – and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.’
Renowned actor Cox has received another career boost thanks to the popularity of Succession (Picture: HBO via AP)
Although it did not mention Depp by name, his lawyers were able to successfully argue that it falsely implied he physically and sexually abused Heard while they were together.
Depp sued Heard for $50million (£42m) while Heard countersued for $100m (£85m), winning one count of her countersuit and being awarded damages of $2m (£1.7m), with her current tally to pay the 59-year-old totalling over $8m (£6.8m).
Soon after the proceedings ended, Heard confirmed that she would be lodging an appeal, and has switched up her team in preparation for filing it by hiring new lawyers.
Cox said he felt Heard had ‘the rough end of it’ (Picture: Getty)
Former couple Heard and Depp in 2011, ahead of their marriage and divorce (Picture: Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock)
She has also reportedly sold her Yucca Valley, California, home for $1.05m (£895,000) making a profit of about $500K (£426K).
It’s not known whether the sale was in relation to the damages owed to Depp, but Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, previously replied when asked if the actress would be able to pay the sum to her former husband: ‘Oh no, absolutely not.’
Her next movie, Aquaman 2, how now seen its release pushed back nine months to December 2023.
Amid the trial a petition calling for her removal from the flick had reached 4.5million signatures.
Pirates star Depp is already busy with film work and a lucrative advertising contract (Picture: Getty)
The 36-year-old previously claimed that her role in the upcoming sequel was ‘reduced’, and that she ‘fought really hard to stay in the movie.’
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Meanwhile Depp has signed a new seven-figure deal with Dior and has been seen shooting new film Jeanne Du Barry.
He also made a cameo appearance at the VMAs in August as the MTV Moonman, claiming he ‘needs the work’, in a move Heard’s sister Whitney branded ‘disgusting’.
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