<p> Actress Amber Heard announced Monday that she had made the "very difficult" decision to settle the multimillion dollar defamation case brought against her by her former husband Johnny Depp.</p>.<p>Heard, in a post on Instagram, did not reveal the terms of the settlement, which comes after a Virginia jury ordered her to pay $10 million to the Pirates of the Caribbean star.</p>.<p>Heard said she was dropping her appeal of the damages awarded by the jury and settling the case because she "simply cannot go through" another trial.</p>.<p>"I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder," she said.</p>.<p>"Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to," Heard said.</p>.<p>The jury found Depp and Heard liable for defamation -- but sided more strongly with the "Pirates" star following an intense six-week trial riding on bitterly contested allegations of domestic abuse.</p>.<p>The jury awarded $10 million in damages to Depp after finding that a 2018 newspaper article penned by Heard on her experience of "sexual violence" was defamatory.</p>.<p>Heard, who had countersued, was awarded $2 million.</p>.<p>The case, live streamed to millions, featured lurid and intimate details about the Hollywood celebrities' private lives.</p>
<p> Actress Amber Heard announced Monday that she had made the "very difficult" decision to settle the multimillion dollar defamation case brought against her by her former husband Johnny Depp.</p>.<p>Heard, in a post on Instagram, did not reveal the terms of the settlement, which comes after a Virginia jury ordered her to pay $10 million to the Pirates of the Caribbean star.</p>.<p>Heard said she was dropping her appeal of the damages awarded by the jury and settling the case because she "simply cannot go through" another trial.</p>.<p>"I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder," she said.</p>.<p>"Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to," Heard said.</p>.<p>The jury found Depp and Heard liable for defamation -- but sided more strongly with the "Pirates" star following an intense six-week trial riding on bitterly contested allegations of domestic abuse.</p>.<p>The jury awarded $10 million in damages to Depp after finding that a 2018 newspaper article penned by Heard on her experience of "sexual violence" was defamatory.</p>.<p>Heard, who had countersued, was awarded $2 million.</p>.<p>The case, live streamed to millions, featured lurid and intimate details about the Hollywood celebrities' private lives.</p>