Amber Heard still loves Johnny Depp – two weeks after he won his bombshell defamation trial against her, she said in an interview that aired Wednesday.
"Absolutely. I love him. I loved him with all my heart," Heard told Savannah Guthrie in Part 2 of her exclusive interview for NBC News. "I have no bad feelings or ill will toward him at all."
She continued, "I know that might be hard to understand, or it might be really easy to understand. If you’ve just ever loved anyone, it should be easy."
The verdict indicated that the jury didn't believe that Depp had sexually and physically abused her after listening to six weeks of shocking testimony that detailed the pair's toxic marriage.
In the interview, Heard insisted that the op-ed wasn't about Depp but about loaning her voice to a "bigger cultural conversation" at the height of the #MeToo movement.
She said that the op-ed was not intended to cancel the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star.
In the aftermath of the devastating verdict in Fairfax, Virginia, Heard told Guthrie she now fears that Depp will sue her again.
"I'm scared no matter what I do, no matter what I say or how I say it, every step I take will present another opportunity for this sort of silencing, which is what a defamation lawsuit is meant to do, to take your voice," she said.
Guthrie asked her about a text that Depp sent after the pair split in 2016 promising her "total global humiliation."
"Do you feel like that came true?" Guthrie asked. Heard bowed her head and exhaled deeply. "It feels as though he has," she replied.
Guthrie questioned Heard about the most glaring inconsistencies in her testimony in a trial that turned on the credibility of the opponents.
Heard had announced on a Dutch television show that she had donated the entirety of her $7 million divorce settlement to charity – a claim that was false.
"I made a pledge, that pledge is made over time by its nature," she told Guthrie, digging her heels in. Guthrie asked her whether she had been caught in a lie when she was cross-examined about the donation.