Amber Heard choked again tears as she took the stand in her defence towards a US$50 million (approx. $69.3 million) defamation declare introduced by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
“I battle to search out the phrases to explain how painful that is. That is horrible for me to sit down right here for weeks and relive all the pieces,” Heard stated in the course of the begin of her testimony.
Depp is suing Heard for US$50 million (approx. $69.3 million) over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Publish through which she described herself as a “public determine representing home abuse.” Although Depp was not named within the article, he claims it value him profitable appearing roles.
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Heard reportedly instructed the Virginia jury that Depp slapped her when she laughed on the writing of “wino” on one in every of his pale tattoos, saying she thought it was a joke, and claiming that was Depp’s first bodily outburst in direction of her.
“I am going to always remember it, it modified my life,” she stated.
“He slapped me throughout the face,” Heard stated on the stand. “I did not know what was happening. I simply stared at him.”
She stated Depp then slapped her once more twice, saying to her, “You suppose it is humorous, b–ch?” as she was laughing after he allegedly struck her as she “did not know what else to do.”
Heard stated Depp, after he allegedly hit her for the primary time, obtained down on his knees and sobbed and apologised. She additionally stated there was a “jar of cocaine” close by on the time of the incident.
“I’ll by no means try this once more, I am so sorry, child … I assumed I put the monster away,” Heard testified Depp instructed her whereas he grabbed her fingers.
She additionally stated she knew she needed to depart, however she did not need to.
“I want I might say I stood up and walked out of the home however I did not,” Heard instructed the jury. “I used to be heartbroken.”
In response to Heard, Depp instructed her a number of days later that “he would slightly minimize [his] hand off” than put it on her, and, Heard stated, he was calling her and texting her to apologise.
Previous to this incident, Heard stated the duo had a “magical” relationship nevertheless it had “all the time” been “intense.”
In Depp’s earlier testimony, he stated he by no means hit Heard and alleged that she was the abusive one within the relationship.
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Heard stated Depp started of their “intense” relationship by commenting on how she dressed, and she or he stated he would name different actresses “nugatory whores.”
“No surprise you get forged in these roles, that is what you’re,” Heard alleged Depp would inform her, saying he made it sound “soiled” to be an actress.
“I would depart the home and he’d say, ‘You are going to put on that, child?'” Heard stated Depp’s feedback would say.
“Then there’d be a blow-up. He’d smash issues,” Heard claimed, saying Depp “loves to interrupt furnishings” and including he would typically “smash up the place.”
Heard’s testimony comes 14 days into the trial, after weeks of jurors listening to testimony concerning the explosive relationship between the actors, together with from Depp himself, who testified over the course of a number of days that he by no means struck a lady in his life and accused Heard of abuse.
Heard and Depp, who met in 2009 and had been married from 2015 to 2016, accuse the opposite of acts of bodily violence throughout their relationship. They’ve each denied the opposite’s claims.
Attorneys for Depp rested their case on Tuesday.
The primary witness referred to as by the defence was forensic psychologist Daybreak Hughes, who testified that she believed Heard has post-traumatic stress dysfunction because of intimate associate violence perpetrated by Depp.
“What these assessments present is that there was a excessive diploma of great violence perpetrated by Mr. Depp towards Ms. Heard. There was violence extra on the delicate degree perpetrated by Ms. Heard towards Mr. Depp with one extreme indicator which was the punching that she indicated to me,” Hughes testified on Tuesday. “She was subjected to sexual violence the place Mr. Depp, based mostly on her report, was subjected to none.”
On Wednesday, Depp’s lawyer Wayne Dennison performed a recording of a dialog between Heard and Depp.
“I used to be hitting you, I used to be not punching you,” Heard’s voice was heard saying within the recording.
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“Do not inform me what it feels wish to be punched,” Depp’s voice was heard saying within the recording.
Dennison requested Hughes if she felt the state of affairs captured in that recording was Heard preventing again reactively.
“On this occasion, if true, if she stated she hit him first, then that might not be reactive violence,” Hughes stated.
Dennison pressed Hughes on her evaluation that violence perpetuated by Heard towards Depp was “delicate,” exhibiting a graphic photograph of Depp’s partially severed finger, an damage Depp stated he sustained after Heard allegedly threw a glass bottle at him.
“That {photograph} would not mirror a low degree of violence, does it?” Dennison requested.
“That displays a severe damage,” Hughes stated.
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