Amber Heard 'absolutely not' able to pay Johnny Depp US$10.4mil in damages says her lawyer

Amber Heard's lawyer says that the actress wants to appeal the verdict. Photo: Reuters

Actress Amber Heard is unable to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than US$10mil in damages, her lawyer said Thursday (June 2), after a US jury took the side of the Pirates Of The Caribbean star in a bitter defamation trial.

The lengthy, high-profile televised court battle ended Wednesday, when a seven-person jury found that Depp and Heard had defamed each other, but weighed in far more strongly with Depp.