Amber Heard was grilled about donating her $7 million divorce settlement throughout her post-trial interview with At present co-host Savannah Guthrie final week—with the actress declaring that she “should not have needed to have donated” in any respect.

In the course of the week’s lengthy defamation trial between Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp, it emerged that Heard had not but donated the total settlement to charity, as she had beforehand pledged.

Guthrie questioned Heard about being “caught in a lie” and questioned whether or not this raised doubts about her “credibility” to the jury.

“Do you assume to the jurors sitting there that was you getting caught in a lie?” Guthrie requested.

In the course of the trial, Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, stated throughout cross-examination: “In order of at this time, you haven’t donated—paid—$7 million of your divorce settlement to charity, proper?”

Heard conceded: “I’ve not been capable of fulfill these obligations but.”

The previous couple reached a $7 million divorce settlement in August 2016. Heard introduced that she would break up your entire payout equally between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Youngsters’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

She additionally stated throughout her testimony that she makes use of the phrases “pledge” and “donate” interchangeably.

The ACLU additionally testified that it had thus far acquired lower than half of the $3.5 million fee promised by Heard.

The jury was additionally proven Heard’s look on a Danish TV present in October 2018, the place she confirmed that “$7 million was donated in whole.”

“You had promised to donate $7 million of your divorce settlement to charity,” Guthrie questioned Heard throughout the Dateline particular.

“It was revealed at trial that you have not carried out so but, nevertheless, they performed a tape the place you state on air that you’ve donated it,” Guthrie stated earlier than later including: “You say donated you recognize that everyone thinks you’d donated—not that you have pledged it.”

Heard pushed again to say that “a lot of the trial” was used to attempt to “forged aspersions” on her credibility.

“I do not know as a result of a lot, I really feel like a lot of the trial was meant to forged aspersions on who I’m as an individual, on my credibility, to name me a liar in each means you may,” she stated.

Guthrie responded: “That was the trial, it was a credibility contest—that was it.”

Heard replied: “That is one other a kind of examples for those who pull again and you concentrate on it, I should not have needed to have donated it in an try and be believed.

“I should not have needed to earmark the whole thing of it as a way to—”

The host interjected to say: “You should not have however when you stated you probably did.”

Heard responded: “Proper and that was the place it was supposed to go.”

The NBC interview comes after Heard’s high-profile courtroom battle with Depp, who sued her for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Submit, by which she stated she was a home abuse survivor—a declare the jury discovered to be false and defamatory.

Following a six-week trial, the jury on June 1 awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

Heard, who had countersued for $100 million, was awarded $2 million after it was discovered that Depp’s former lawyer, Adam Waldman, had made defamatory feedback about her.