Amber Heard Blasted Over Post-Trial Interview, 'Unfair' Comment: 'Leave Johnny Depp Alone'

Johnny Depp's fans have accused Amber Heard of hypocrisy for giving a post-trial interview despite previously saying she wants her ex-husband to move on from their years-long legal battles.

Two weeks after a Virginia jury handed Depp a victory in his multimillion-dollar defamation trial against Heard, the "Aquaman" actress is set to publicly speak at length for the first time since the verdict in a sit-down interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie, a preview of which aired Monday on the network's "Today" show.

In the clip, Heard said she doesn't blame jurors for ruling against her in the trial but claimed that the social media commentary surrounding the case was "unfair" to her.

"Even somebody who is sure I am deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I am lying, you still couldn't look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there's been a fair representation," she said. "You cannot tell me that you think this has been fair."

A spokesperson for Heard told Deadline that the actress gave the interview because Depp's legal team "blanketed the media for days after the verdict with numerous statements and interviews on television, and Depp himself did the same on social media."

"Ms. Heard simply intended to respond to what they aggressively did last week; she did so by expressing her thoughts and feelings, much of which she was not allowed to do on the witness stand," her rep added.

Heard's post-trial interview and comments were met with criticism from some Twitter users and fans of Depp.

"Amber Heard needs to leave Johnny Depp alone. I'm so tired of her," one fan commented.

"This is the same person who said on stand she just wants Johnny to leave her alone. Not fair? For six years, he kept quiet, and now he told the world that he is a victim of [domestic violence]. @realamberheard, you are not the victim! You set women back with your lies!" another claimed.

"A woman who screamed, 'Johnny, just move on,' is now doing an interview on the 'Today' show to accuse the jury of bias and repeat the lie once again that Johnny abused her!" a third user tweeted.

"No, it hasn’t been fair. You got to keep your life going when you divorced Johnny and made accusations. His life got canceled and put on hold," a fourth user claimed.

Some celebrities also reacted to Heard's interview and accused her of playing the victim.

"Amber Heard pre-verdict: 'I just want to move on. And for Johnny to move on.' Amber Heard on national TV this week: 'You cannot look me in the eye and tell me my trial was fair,'" tweeted Greg Ellis, who appeared in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films alongside Depp. "The narcissist craves attention. The victimology tour continues."

"The jurors didn't read any of the social media stuff. They listened to the evidence and concluded she was lying. I suggest it's time for Ms. Heard to stop playing the victim," Piers Morgan claimed.

Other social media users and fans of Heard defended the actress, saying that the online chatter that followed throughout the course of the legal battle matters even if the jury was told to never read the news or check social media.

"She's right," one person tweeted. "Amber Heard was eviscerated online to a violently dehumanizing degree. People did it with glee, trading in misogynist tropes and mocking her stories of being raped and beaten. It's sick and disturbing and harms far more than just her — it hurts all of us."

"Unfortunately, this is true. Only a week ago I found out that I was one of the culprits against her. I feel ashamed about what I was posting on TikTok because I ignored her testimony and did not listen to her. I discovered that I was wrong so #istandwithamberheard," another admitted.

"She didn't stand a chance. The fact that the jury could see everything that was happening on social media which was all pro-Johnny and anti-Amber, that clouded their judgment [in my opinion]," a third Twitter user claimed.

"This woman keeps receiving hate for speaking the truth!" another person wrote.

"As a society, we failed a woman who was abused by her husband. It's not a matter of one or two names, it's something much bigger," a fifth netizen tweeted.

"Some people are already complaining about her speaking up. But if she had spoken later, then 'they' would say why now and not sooner. I'm glad she's speaking," another user pointed out.

When Heard took the stand back in May, she said it was "agonizing" dealing with the public attention surrounding their trial and described feeling "humiliated" over the comments "mocking" her testimony about being assaulted. She ended her testimony by saying that she "just want[ed] Johnny to leave me alone," NPR reported.

On June 1, Depp was awarded more than $10 million in damages after the jury found that Heard defamed him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed about surviving domestic abuse.

Heard won on one counterclaim, with jurors awarding her $2 million after she argued that Depp's lawyer defamed her by calling her abuse allegations a "hoax."

Heard's new interview with Guthrie will appear on "Today" throughout the week, before more from the sit-down will be shown on a special "Dateline" Friday.