Johnny Depp is ready to close the door on his defamation case against Amber Heard.

Di lunedi, attorneys for Depp, 59, announced that he will donate Heard’s $1 million settlement payment to several different charities.

“We are pleased to formally close the door on this painful chapter for Mr. Depp, who made clear throughout this process that his priority was about bringing the truth to light,” Depp’s attorneys Benjamin Chew and Camille Vazquez wrote in a statement Monday, shortly after Heard announced that a settlement in the case had been made.

“The jury’s unanimous decision and the resulting judgement in Mr. Depp’s favor against Ms. Heard remain fully in place,” the attorneys added in a statement. “The payment of $1M – which Mr. Depp is pledging and will (in realtà) donate to charities – reinforces Ms. Heard’s acknowledgement of the conclusion of the legal system’s rigorous pursuit for justice.”

Heard wrote in a statement shared to Instagram Monday morning that she had made “a very difficult decision” to settle the case, just weeks after she appealed the defamation verdict demanding a reversal or new trial and saying the outcome has a “chilling effect” on women speaking out.

“It’s important for me to say that I never chose this,” Heard wrote in her statement. “I defended my truth in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways women are re-victimised when they come forward.”

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“Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to,” lei ha continuato. “I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.”

Depp’s donation announcement follows his recent reprisal of his pirati dei Caraibi franchise character Capt. Jack Sparrow for a series of personal videos sent in collaboration with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to an 11-year-old boy named Kori, who is currently in palliative care.

A source close to Depp told PEOPLE the actor was contacted by Make-A-Wish with “a timely ask” to get in contact with the boy, who operates a pirate-themed Youtube channel called “Kraken The Box.”

Kori is a “massive” fan of Jack Sparrow and frequently watched the Pirates film “during his multiple heart surgeries and subsequent recovery periods,” the source told PEOPLE.