Amber Heard seems to have guessed.

When the actress entered the courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, shortly before 3 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday, she was wearing black.

An hour and a half earlier, the jury had let Presiding Judge Penney Azcarate know that it had reached a verdict in the defamation trial between Heard and Johnny Depp.

The first camera teams positioned themselves in front of the courthouse, and some fans of the Golden Globe winner moved up with their "Justice for Johnny" posters.

It had already become apparent on Friday that they would have to do without the Hollywood star when the verdict was announced.

After six weeks of the trial, Depp boarded the plane shortly after the closing arguments to fly to London.

There the fifty-eight-year-old stood on stage with British rock guitarist Jeff Beck, played John Lennon's song "Isolation" and then celebrated with his former partner Kate Moss.

The model disproved rumors via video in Fairfax court last week that Depp pushed her down a flight of stairs in the 1990s.

Consciously told the untruth about violent excesses

Moss' testimony just before the closing arguments may have made the jury's deliberations easier.

Judge Azcarate answered the 24 questions about Depp's defamation lawsuit against Heard in favor of the actor.

Yes, Heard slandered him in a 2018 op-ed piece for The Washington Post when she described herself as a victim of physical and sexual violence, the jury found.

And yes, she deliberately said the untruth about the supposed violent excesses of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor.

While a court spokeswoman read the individual questions and provided the jury with a unanimous "Yes" in each case, Heard kept his eyes lowered.

She remained motionless when the jury ordered her to pay Depp $15 million in damages.

The actor had asked for $50 million in his lawsuit.

As he argued, Heard's allegations had destroyed his film career.

Among other things, because of Heard's allegations, Disney decided not to cast him for the continuation of the pirate saga "Pirates of the Caribbean".

The "Aquaman" actress, who filed for divorce in May 2016 after alleged fisticuffs, responded to Depp's 2019 defamation lawsuit with a $100 million counterclaim.

Adam Waldman, the Hollywood star's former attorney, previously accused Heard of "abuse fraud."

The 36-year-old Texan presented herself at the wedding of the #MeToo movement as a victim of domestic violence to harm Depp.

There was never a dispute in his penthouse in Los Angeles, which allegedly led to fisticuffs.

The bruises that Heard wore to his face during a restraining order petition in May 2016, Waldman claimed she produced with makeup.

Since the lawyer passed on information to the media after being muzzled by the court,

the Fairfax court withdrew him from the Depp case in the fall of 2020.

When the verdict was announced on Wednesday, Waldman's allegations still resonated.

The seven jurors ruled that the lawyer's allegation that Heard staged Depp's penthouse as the scene of an altercation to incriminate her then-husband prior to a police visit in May 2016 was malicious defamation.

They awarded Heard $2 million in damages for that point.

"Disappointed and heartbroken"

"The jury gave me my life back," Depp said shortly after the verdict was announced.

Heard, who repeatedly invoked the First Amendment freedom of speech during the defamation trial, said she was "disappointed and heartbroken."

"The mountain of evidence was not enough to counter the power, influence and rule of my former husband," the actress said resignedly.

As American media reported, Heard is already planning an appeal.