Mickey Rourke has labeled boyfriend Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard a “gold digger.”
During a candid interview with Piers Morgan, 57, for Talk TV, actor Mickey, 69, said: “Well, you know, I’ve known Johnny for many years, but I don’t know him really intimately.
“All I could say is that I was once in a situation where I was blamed for something I didn’t do. It took me several years of film jobs and it caused a bad reputation.
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Bitter: Johnny won his libel case against Amber, 36, (pictured) in June, saying he now has ‘his life back’ after jury found he had been slandered and awarded him $15 million
“And finally the truth came out, but the truth came out after I lost movies and lost jobs and so I felt bad for someone trying to get cut down by some gold digger, you know.”
Piers said, “Do you think she was?”
‘Abso-f***ing-lutely. Absolutely,” he replied.
Johnny won his libel case against Amber, 36, in June and said he now has “his life back” after the jury ruled he had been defamed and awarded him $15 million.
After less than three days of deliberation, the jury ruled in favor of all three of Depp’s defamation claims against Heard, finding that she had falsely accused him of domestic violence.
Not holding back: Piers asked Mickey if he thought Amber was a prospector and he replied, “Abso-f***ing-lutely. Absolute’
The actor was awarded $15 million – $10 million in compensation and $5 million in punitive damages.
Heard, meanwhile, won just one of her three claims in a counter-charge, which involved statements from Depp’s attorney suggesting that she and friends had vandalized their apartment before calling police.
She was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages of the $100 million she claimed in her counterclaim against her ex-husband and received zero dollars in punitive damages.
The judge later reduced Depp’s punitive damages from $5 million to the Virginia maximum of $350,000, reducing Depp’s total to $10,350,000 — minus the $2 million he had to pay Heard.
Depp walks away from the case with $8.35 million.
Ever So Close: Mickey (left) and Johnny (right) – who collaborated on Once Upon A Time In Mexico in 2003 – seen together in 1993
But in November, an English Supreme Court judge labeled Depp ‘a monster’ who had beaten Amber Heard 12 times – when the Hollywood star lost his sensational £5million ‘wife-beater’ libel.
In his ruling, the judge ruled that Depp assaulted his ex-wife Heard a dozen times and said he accepted the Pirates of the Caribbean actor becoming a “monster” when he indulged in alcohol and drugs.
Depp called the verdict “perverse” and “baffling” when he swore an appeal against the ruling after his high-stakes battle against his ex-wife Heard and The Sun.
After a 16-day blockbuster trial, the Supreme Court of London, Mr Justice Nicol, said he accepted that the actor had beaten Heard on 12 of the 14 times she claimed.
Jubilant Heard’s lawyers said they were “not surprised” by her stunning win, with the judge ruling that she had been beaten by the actor while he was out of control of cocaine, pills and booze.
But Depp’s lawyers criticized the judge, calling the ruling “as perverse as it is baffling.”
In May 2016, Johnny, Mickey stood up for Johnny when interviewed by TMZ in Beverly Hills. “He doesn’t seem like a very violent man to me.”
The two worked together on the 2003 film Once Upon A Time In Mexico.
“He is a very calm man, he has always been very calm and gentleman and not violent.”
Worn: Heard to leave LA court in 2016 after alleging Depp physically assaulted her
When asked what he thought of Heard, Mickey played it safe. “I have no idea, I don’t know anything about her. I don’t know anything about her at all.’
Then he returned to Johnny. “I think he’s a really good guy, always been a quiet man, a gentleman,” said the former boxer.
The second part of Piers Morgan’s Mickey Rourke interview aired Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
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