Amber Heard says still has love for ex-husband Johnny Dep

Despite an acrimonious six-week trial and years of court battles, Amber Heard says she still has love for her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. 'I love him. I loved him with all my heart. And I tried the best I could to make a deeply broken relationship work. And I couldn't,' the 'Aquaman' actress said Wednesday on the Today show in the second installment of her post-verdict interviews, days ahead of its full airing Friday on NBC News' Dateline. 'I [have] no bad feelings or ill will towards him at all,' Heard, 36, told co-host Savannah Guthrie. 'I know that might be hard to understand or it might be really easy to understand. If you've ever loved anyone, it should be easy.' Heard's remarks came from excerpts of her first post-verdict interview since the contentious libel trial ended in Virginia two weeks ago. That's when a jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages after finding that she defamed the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' superstar. She was awarded $2 million in her countersuit. The sensational trial and verdict, stemming from a 2018 Washington Post op-ed Heard wrote, also vindicated Depp's allegations that Heard lied about him abusing her. 'I'm scared that no matter what I do, no matter what I say or how I say it, every step that I take will present another opportunity for this sort of silencing,' she told Guthrie, 'which is what I guess a defamation lawsuit is meant to do. It's meant to take your voice.' 'I think no matter what, it will mean something,' she said Wednesday. 'I did the right thing. I did everything I could to stand up for myself and the truth.' 'Of course not, of course not,' Heard told Guthrie. 'It wasn't about him.' In the first part of Heard's interview, which aired Tuesday, the 'Rum Diary' star insisted that she 'always told the truth' during the trial. Heard also said that she didn't blame the jury for siding with Depp, saying her ex is 'a beloved character, and people feel they know him. He's a fantastic actor.'