Amber Heard testimony

Amber Heard Explicitly Details Alleged Sexual Assault By Johnny Depp In Trial Testimony; “I Just Stood There Looking At The Light,” Actress Says Of 2013 Attack ...

As was made evident early in Heard’s testimony today, that legal action on the other side of the pond looms to some degree over this Stateside case. Heard’s testimony is expected to last the rest of the week. In that context and having been painted by the plaintiff’s side as an abuser suffering from borderline personality disorder both clinically and anecdotally, Heard initially was scheduled as the first defense witness. Heard said on one particular occasion in 2012 the sometimes “disappearing” Depp admitted to her knew he had a problem with booze and drugs. Calling it a “beautiful and strange time,” a sometime-tearful Heard also detailed a kiss they shared and how they first became involved in Los Angeles during the 2011 press tour for the film. Leaning in at the start to tell the jurors of her role as a mother now and her working-class childhood near Austin, Texas, Heard’s testimony comes more than three years after Depp sued her in March 2019 over a late-2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote on being a survivor of domestic abuse. That, along with pounding the table figuratively on losing a potentially $22.5 million payout to be in the as-yet-unmade sixth Pirates of the Caribbean flick, has been the thrust of the case put forth by Depp’s legal crew since the Old Dominion-set and much-postponed trial started on April 11. Remarking on the “velvety love” the duo had when things were good, Heard earlier pulled back the curtain on the couple’s relationship turning sour in and around 2012 with an allegedly heavily drinking Depp calling her a “whore,” denigrating her fashion choices and throwing objects and punches close to her. While not a party in the case, Heard did testify. Having sued Heard in March 2019 over a late 2018 Washington Post op-ed that she wrote about being a survivor of domestic abuse and never mentions the actor by name, Depp has always denied he was violent to his then wife, nor did he ever sexually assault her. Just like in Heard’s earlier testimony on Wednesday, the former Pirates of the Caribbean star barely looked at his frequently crying ex-wife as she spoke about their life together. The proceedings will resume on May 16 with what is sure to be a brutal cross examination in the offering.

Amber Heard is countersuing Johnny Depp for $100 million in damages and took to the stand on Wednesday in her defense.

She said that Lily-Rose began getting "panicky" when Depp threw himself over the edge of the boat. The strap top part of my dress," she said, and then explained that he performed a "cavity search." She said he was "accusing me of kind of, like telling on him and calling him you know, a drunk in front of his kids. She then stated that Depp went into the bedroom area before coming back out, accusing her of hiding "it." She recalled that in May 2013, both of them met with friends to do "laughy" drugs in Hicksville, where she described staying at a fancy trailer park. And he's howling, like an animal while holding the dog out of the window." And I'm all of a sudden realizing that the worst thing just happened to me," she said. I thought, 'This must be a joke.'" She testified that Depp hit her twice more, the third time hitting her "hard." She stated that Depp had been drinking, and believes he may have also used cocaine, as she remembered "a jar of cocaine out on the table." When they were driving somewhere together, Heard said, "At some point, he starts howling out of the window." Others thought that Depp's avoiding eye contact was suspicious, with another user tweeting, "If he was innocent he'd be head up, focused, listening to the testimony. Heard said she asked him about a tattoo on his arm that looked like black marks.

Amber Heard testified that Johnny Depp performed a "cavity search" on her and slapped her in multiple incidents.

When Heard and Depp made it to their hotel in Russia, Heard said Depp "whacked" her in the face, and she got a bloody nose. Heard said that on June 26, 2013, on a flight to Russia, she and Depp both did the drug MDMA and Depp also convinced the flight attendant to take some. After the flight attendant became friendly with her, Depp grabbed the flight attendant's wrist and told her not to touch Heard again, she said. That same month, Heard told her mother about the abuse and sent her mother a picture of a bruise on her arm that she said Depp caused after he accused Heard of having an affair with her ex-partner. Heard said it felt like a "never-ending fight." The next day, she said, he brought her expensive wine and told her he "put this thing away" and that he "killed the fucker" and that she could trust him to never hit her again. After the second slap, Heard said she stared at Depp and realized he wasn't kidding. He then slapped her a third time, "hard," Heard testified. Heard testified that the first time Depp hit her was in 2012, before they were married, saying the two were sitting on a couch at his home and Depp had a "jar of cocaine." "I'm all the sudden realizing that the worst thing has just happened to me that could possibly happen to you," Heard said. and then slapped Heard a second time. On Wednesday, Heard had the opportunity to tell the court about her experiences, and she recounted multiple instances of physical and sexual abuse.

Actress Amber Heard took the witness stand Wednesday to defend herself in the defamation suit filed by her former husband, actor Johnny Depp.

Click here to see the full defendant's and plaintiff's witness list. But a judge ruled that Depp was within his rights to bring the case in Virginia because The Washington Post’s computer servers for its online edition are located in the county. "The punching of the walls next to my head was a constant in 2012 when he was drinking," Heard stated. Depp has said he never physically attacked her, and that she was the aggressor who routinely hit him and threw things at him through the course of their relationship. Actor James Franco and Telsa CEO/Twitter owner Elon Musk, who came up in court, were on the witness list submitted by Heard’s team before the trial began. I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is for me.

Amber Heard took the stand on Wednesday in her defense against a $50 million defamation claim brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, detailing in her three ...

"I knew it was wrong and I knew that I had to leave him. "But he was also this other thing. He accused her of hiding his cocaine, Heard testified, and began ripping off her dress and underwear. Because I didn't want to leave him," Heard said. But she described the relationship continuing with escalating violence that she believed corresponded to Depp drinking. "I wish I could sit here and say I stood up and walked out of that house and I drew a line and I stood up for myself." This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relieve everything," Heard said during the start of her testimony at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia. He made me feel like a million dollars," Heard testified. "It just felt very intense." I laughed because I didn't know what else to do. Though Depp was not named in the article, he claims it cost him lucrative acting roles. The two began seeing each other romantically in 2011.

Actor takes witness stand in Virginia court and tells jurors trial 'has been one of the most painful things I've ever gone through'

Depp described Heard to the jury as having a “need for conflict”. “This man lost control of his bowels and I cleaned up after him,” she said. Heard said she convinced Depp to leave the house with her to get him to work. He was intent on me admitting an affair I wasn’t having,” Heard said. “I was heartbroken.” Depp, she said, called a few days later to say, “he would rather cut [his] hand off” than lay it on her. “I will never do that again, I’m so sorry, baby … I thought I put the monster away,” Depp said, she testified. “I fell head over heels in love with this man,” she told the court. “I was an acquaintance with someone. He’d smash things,” Heard told the court. Depp’s seduction continued, she said, with Heard “batting him away”. After the filming was complete, she said, they parted. “You think it’s funny, bitch?” he said after hitting her, she testified. “It didn’t feel like a normal scene in the job, the lines were blurred.

On May 4, Amber Heard took the stand in Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial. During her testimony, the actress discussed how their romance first began ...

"He'd get clean and get sober and become this thing that made me feel so loved," she said. But when he tried to get sober, Heard said that she was hopeful things would change. "You couldn't see the Johnny I loved underneath it." "It felt like there was an electricity to the room." According to Heard, "for the rest of the press tour, it was on." "He did anything to make them feel special and they did." It was clothing in general." "The reconnection was instant," Heard said. While testifying in court, Heard said that Depp spoiled her parents with generous presents. When she arrived, Depp said the director was unable to make it. Although the article never mentioned Depp by name, his attorneys previously said in court documents that Heard's op-ed was all part of an " elaborate hoax." "I am here because my ex-husband is suing me for an op-ed I wrote," she said.

Amber Heard said she knew she should leave Johnny Depp the first time he hit her, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Ms. Heard took the stand for the first time in the defamation case filed against her by the actor, her ex-husband, who says he was damaged by an op-ed she ...

Ms. Heard remembered going to her car, leaning her head against the window and sitting there for a while before she drove home. Another time, Ms. Heard testified, Mr. Depp engaged in an invasive search of her body for drugs that he thought she was hiding from him. They have also sought to prove that Ms. Heard was the primary abuser, playing audio of the couple discussing an incident in which Mr. Depp said Ms. Heard kicked a bathroom door into his head. Soon Mr. Depp began crying, she said, and got down on his knees to tell her, “I thought I put the monster away.” In her account, it was Mr. Depp who would often erupt into fits of jealous rage, especially when he had been using drugs or alcohol. The first time he hit her, she said, was about two years before they were married, when the actress laughed at one of his tattoos. In four days of testimony earlier in the trial at Fairfax County Circuit Court, Mr. Depp denied ever hitting Ms. Heard or any other woman. At the beginning of her testimony, Ms. Heard said it had been difficult to sit in the courtroom as Mr. Depp presented his case, listening as her ex-husband and others testified about their tumultuous relationship. “He was the love of my life,” Ms. Heard said. But by 2012, she said, Mr. Depp was repeatedly accusing her of infidelity and his anger would often escalate to physical attacks, despite her denials. (In his testimony, Mr. Depp said the woman had been “very affectionate” with Ms. Heard and so he had removed the woman’s hand from Ms. Heard. That led to an argument later between the couple in their trailer, during which he said he punched a sconce in the bathroom.) And that other thing was awful.”

After days of smirking, joking, and self-indulgent testimony, Johnny Depp is laughing no more from Amber Heard's testimony.

Depp threatened to break the wrists of at least two women, Heard said, with witnesses to both incidents. Depp’s bodyguard saw Heard after Depp smacked her in a hotel room, her nose bleeding. She had no frame of reference — she was in her mid-20s then, half Depp’s age. She said his security team would clean up after him, or Heard herself. Oh, excuse me: There was that incredible moment he was caught smirking on camera as ex-wife Amber Heard recounted the moment Depp cornered her in a trailer — a trailer he’d just smashed up — ripped off her dress, grabbed her breast, tore off her underwear and, as Heard testified, “proceed[ed] to do a cavity search. It’s all another form of violence. That, Heard said, she rationalized as hyperbole. [That] I was an embarrassment . . . I made him feel sick.” His then-14-year-old daughter Lily-Rose, Heard said, started to cry. Holds me there for a second and tells me he could f—king kill me. She had no idea about the iconic Gen X romance that was Johnny Depp, 26, and Winona Ryder, 17 and then, by her own account, a virgin. Heard said she was more upset that Depp was embarrassed by her — “I was very much in love with this whole family now” — than by his threat to kill her.

Amber Heard said she knew she should leave Johnny Depp the first time he hit her, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

- US actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 ...

“I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is,” Heard testified, according to People. “This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything. After Hughes, the forensic psychologist, testified that she determined Heard suffered from PTSD, Depp’s attorney cross examined her. Heard is expected to argue that Depp’s career was already on the rocks. After Depp’s attorneys rested their case, Heard’s legal team asked the judge to dismiss the case on the grounds that Depp had not proven his case. In the op-ed, Heard referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” While Heard did not mention Depp by name in the op-ed, over nearly two weeks of testimony and two dozen witnesses, Depp and his legal team made the case that the op-ed not only defamed him, but was “catastrophic” for his career. The high-profile trial, which is being held in Fairfax County, Virginia, is in its fourth week.

Amber Heard said she knew she should leave Johnny Depp the first time he hit her, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Actress Amber Heard testified in her defense as she stands accused of defaming her ex-husband, actor Jonny Depp, on Wednesday, saying it was one of "the ...

She said she assumed Depp was "probably really high" and walked into the bathroom. "He proceeds to do a cavity search," Heard said. "I knew it was wrong and I knew that I had to leave him. Heard said Depp slapped her two more times, causing her to fall to the carpet. And he slapped me across the face," Heard said. "This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything," she said.

Amber Heard took the stand for the first time on Wednesday in Johnny Depp's libel lawsuit against the actress.

Depp's family, friends and employees have similarly downplayed the notion that Depp struggled with alcohol, which Heard said was a big part of the problem. "I would excuse myself from the situation," Depp said. Hughes was the first witness to take the stand on Heard's behalf after Depp's lawyers rested their case Tuesday morning. He then accused her of hiding his drugs, ripped her dress and started patting her down, she said. And arguments began to turn ugly, Heard alleged, with Depp tossing around expletives, smashing glass or turning over a table before leaving and coming back as the "wonderful, almost unreal... It changed my life," Heard told the jury, recalling sitting on the couch with Depp, having a "normal conversation" while Depp was drinking and smoking (Heard also hypothesized later that Depp was using cocaine at the time) when she asked what the tattoo on his arm meant. Heard said it was then that they began "falling in love" but kept things under the radar because his split with ex Vanessa Paradis, with whom he shares two children, had not yet been publicized. As their relationship progressed, Heard said, Depp took issues with clothing she wore and expressed concern she was cheating on him with friends. They ingested psychotropic mushrooms, and Depp became jealous when he saw another woman acting in what he perceived as a flirtatious manner with Heard. Depp focused his eyes downward for a majority of the testimony. She eventually walked out and sat in her car for a while before driving home. Heard said Depp slapped her twice more.

Depp had previously lost a 2020 libel case against The Sun, which had labeled the star a "wife-beater." Depp has repeatedly denied being violent to Heard.

Depp then slapped her "across the face," she testified. "Johnny Depp is so cowardly (we already knew it) that he doesn't even dare to look Amber Heard in the eye and tries to escape this by smiling with his lawyer, drawing," wrote another. "It changed my life." "I will never forget it," she said. "The Abused can't look at the tormentor. "If [Heard] had kept her head down when he was talking she would have been accused of being guilty! He refuses to look at her." "Just because #JohnnyDepp keeps his head down doesn't make him innocent!" i am sick to my stomach watching from home, can't imagine how he must be feeling." "This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything," Heard said. It's really hard to know what is authentic and what is an act." During the first 10 minutes of testimony, Depp kept his head down.

Amber Heard will return to the stand Thursday, her second day of testimony in the civil trial for the $50 million libel lawsuit filed by her ex-husband ...

He said he was punched and struck by her on many occasions, and that she threw things at him. Depp testified he never struck Heard and that he was the abuse victim. The article never mentions Depp by name, but Depp's lawyers say he was defamed nevertheless because it clearly referred to accusations she made in 2016 during their divorce proceedings.

Depp is suing Heard over a 2018 op-ed published by The Washington Post in which Heard called for change in how the U.S. treats abuse survivors and urged ...

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Amber Heard is set to take the stand for a second day on Thursday in the defamation suit filed by her former husband, fellow actor Johnny Depp.

Depp told her the tattoo said “wino” and slapped her when she laughed about it, Heard said. The problem is the reflexive assumption that Depp is being wronged, along with the gleeful way social media is harassing the woman who accused him of violence. He said that he locked himself in a bathroom during the fight and went to sleep. "There was no one to back me up, just his employees and everyone who had been taking care of him versus my word," Heard said. And there’s the toxic fandom gone amok as people mindlessly cheer on a man who has already lost a libel trial against the British tabloid The Sun after it called him a “wife beater.” Heard's legal team pushed Depp during cross-examination regarding his claims that he wasn't drinking prior to the flight. "I watched it," Heard said. "I already knew he was drunk...he reeked of weed and alcohol," Heard said. Depp had been filming the movie "Black Mass" at the time, according to his own witness testimony. He told the court he did not recall having any alcohol before the flight except for possibly a glass or two of champagne. I thought to myself, 'I don't know what to do,'" Heard said. Heard took the stand on Wednesday for more than two hours and described meeting Depp, the beginnings of their romantic relationship and when things allegedly turned abusive.

Depp is suing Heard over a 2018 op-ed published by The Washington Post in which Heard called for change in how the U.S. treats abuse survivors and urged ...

Depp has denied committing violence against Heard, and he accused Heard of domestic violence in his own lengthy testimony. Babe, you're not punched." This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything."

After Heard testified in her court battle with Johnny Depp, Meredith Anne Bull said that watching the testimony from an actor's perspective caused her to ...

Depp then slapped her "across the face," she testified. "But knowing that she has a performer background, to see her being so big and seeing that she's trying to get eye contact with every juror... I thought that was a little weird." In turn, Heard has counter-sued for $100 million for nuisance, with her lawyers arguing that the op-ed was a matter of public interest. "What I saw today was like [a] massive performance to the jury: 'Do you believe me?'" Bull said. "This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything," Heard said.

After spending weeks sitting in a Virginia court and listening to witnesses, actress Amber Heardis able to tell her story to a jury in the defamation suit ...

But a judge ruled that Depp was within his rights to bring the case in Virginia because The Washington Post’s computer servers for its online edition are located in the county. Depp has said he never physically attacked her, and that she was the aggressor who routinely hit him and threw things at him through the course of their relationship. Click here to see the full defendant's and plaintiff's witness list. Heard also described a time she said she was sexually assaulted by Depp -- She said the two of them and some friends had gone to the Hicksville Trailer Palace in Joshua Tree, California, in May 2013 for what was going to be a nice night in the desert. She laughed when Depp told her it said “Wino” — an alteration to a tattoo he had made when he'd been dating actor Winona Ryder. "I struggle to have the words.

Depp is suing Heard over a 2018 op-ed published by The Washington Post in which Heard called for change in how the U.S. treats abuse survivors and urged ...

Depp has denied committing violence against Heard, and he accused Heard of domestic violence in his own lengthy testimony. Heard and Depp married in February 2015. This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything." When he did board, he reeked of alcohol and marijuana, she said. And I — it didn't hurt me, it didn't hurt my face, I just felt embarrassed that he'd do that to me in front of people. Heard's account of the flight details the aftermath of her filming The Adderall Diaries alongside Franco in 2014. She said he was against her filming romantic or kissing scenes. When Heard moved again, Depp taunted her and called her names, she said. I fell to the floor and caught myself on the floor, and it just felt like I was looking at the floor of the plane for what felt like a long time. And I thought to myself, 'I don't know what to do. Hurry up," Heard said. At the time, they were traveling with security personnel and Depp's assistants.

Amber Heard entered day two of testimony against Johnny Depp in the libel lawsuit. She claimed he abused her as a result of jealousy.

Depp argued that he would remove himself from the room during fights with Heard to avoid escalation. But jurors heard a recording Heard made toward the end of the incident, in which it sounds like Depp is howling and babbling incoherently. "I felt so embarrassed that he could kick me to the ground in front of people." He denied that he'd drank excessively before getting on the plane, and said Heard initiated an argument and pursued him until he felt compelled to hide in a bathroom. Heard said Depp got even more aggressive when she began filming "The Adderall Diaries" with James Franco in 2014. She later claimed Depp had a range of extreme moods throughout their stay including "bursts into anger." The two would reunite in person on a private plane to go to a birthday party for Lily-Rose. "I was so in love ... I can’t describe that kind of joy." "I had just met them and I didn’t want them to think poorly of me and hate me not knowing what was going on behind doors." "I was unsure what that feeling was but I suspected I had a broken nose. "Johnny screamed at me in the hotel room and all I could think about was the kids were in an adjoining room. Depp's children, Lily-Rose Depp and Jack, were also with the couple.

Her emotional testimony frequently halted as Depp's lawyers persistently and successfully objected to various questions.

At some point between then and the next day, Heard said, Depp’s finger was injured (previous testimony has described it as a severed fingertip). Heard said she found letters scrawled on the walls in blood. Depp accused her of sleeping with various co-stars, such as actors Eddie Redmayne, Jim Sturgess and Billy Bob Thornton. In one instance, she testified, after he took eight to 10 ecstasy pills, he held her by the neck and slammed her against a wall, at which point she slapped him. “It was the first time something like that happened in front of somebody,” she said. She took a liquor bottle and broke it on the tile floor. He also, she said, “whacked” her in the face. In another instance, she said, he choked her and wrestled with her on a table. “I think that was the first time I was like, ‘Is this a broken nose?’” On another occasion, Heard said, she took Lily-Rose to Benihana for her birthday while Depp slept off a binge. That Johnny had finally hit rock bottom and finally, he felt like changing for good.” At the their engagement party five months later, she testified that he spent most of the event upstairs, taking drugs with her father. “Even if it was platonic, I couldn’t be photographed with other men or women that other people could possibly spin as romantic,” she testified. She also said that he attempted to control her career, and she began choosing roles requiring minimal makeup and avoiding romance or sex for her characters — if she chose to work at all — per his comfort level. The case centers on a 2018 op-ed Heard wrote that was published in the The Washington Post, which alleged domestic abuse from an unnamed person.