Amber Heard reportedly chose not take millions of dollars from Johnny Depp that she was entitled to following their messy divorce in 2016. Unsealed pre-trial court documents of actors’ libel case obtained by The Daily Beast suggest that Aquaman actor “stayed true to her word” despite her lawyers’ advice.

Documents claim that actor’s legal team begged her to pursue $ 16 million she was entitled to through Depp’s $ 33 million he made from fourth installment of Pirates of Caribbean while they were married.

However, Heard emailed her attorneys refusing to take money as she allegedly wrote to them that she was being “amazingly true to (her) word that this is not about money.”

Conversation/emails, 36-year-old had with her lawyers during divorce trial was declared unsuitable for submission in court by Judge Penney Azcarate. Depp was awarded $ 10.35 million in damages whereas Heard won one of three countersuits claims and was awarded $ 2 million in compensatory damages. Financially challenged actor has now sold her beloved California home for a whooping sum of $ 1.05 million and made a profit of about $ 500K to pay her former husband’s debt. Yucca Valley property was bought by Heard through an anonymous trust for $ 570,000 in 2019.