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Amber Heard took the stand as soon as once more Tuesday to proceed dealing with the extraordinary cross-examination about her relationship along with her former husband, actor Johnny Depp.
Heard confronted the primary hours of her cross-examination Monday, as Depp’s legal professionals tried to poke holes in her earlier claims about alleged bodily and sexual abuse by the hands of Depp.
The couple cut up in 2016, however have been battling it out in varied courtrooms since, as every tries to color themselves as the larger sufferer within the relationship.
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This specific trial stems from an op-ed piece Heard wrote for The Washington Submit in 2018, during which she claimed she had been abused, however by no means talked about Depp by identify.
Depp is suing Heard for US$50 million, whereas Heard is countersuing her former companion for US$100 million.
As Heard returned to the stand Tuesday, she was requested in regards to the beginnings of her relationship with Depp. Once more, Heard instructed the jury the primary yr collectively was “magic.”
Actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch because the jury comes into the courtroom after a lunch break on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 17, 2022.
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Nevertheless, tensions within the courtroom shortly rose as one in every of Depp’s legal professionals, Camille Vasquez, interrogated Heard about an alleged sexual assault in Australia in 2015.
In her earlier testimony, Heard claimed Depp forcibly penetrated her with a glass liquor bottle. She testified Depp had taken 8-10 MDMA drugs on the time of the alleged sexual assault.
Depp, alternatively, claimed he was the sufferer of assault in Australia. He testified Heard severed the tip of his finger when she threw a glass bottle at his hand.
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Depp’s lawyer spent a big chunk of time attempting to disprove Heard’s testimony, typically evaluating her earlier testimonies.
By exhibit after exhibit of proof, Vasquez cross-examined Heard, trying to poke holes in her claims.
Vasquez requested Heard about scars on her arm which Heard claimed she obtained through the alleged sexual assault in Australia. Vasquez implied Heard had a historical past of self-harm and brought about the scars herself.
Depp’s lawyer additionally learn a number of pages from the couple’s “love journal,” the place Depp and Heard wrote many love letters to one another all through their relationship. In varied entries, Heard apologizes for “hurting” Depp, asks why they combat so typically and proclaims her love for the actor.
Proof of the “love journal” displaying notes from US actress Amber Heard, which appeared on a display throughout a defamation trial on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 17, 2022.
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Heard was requested about Depp’s drug and alcohol use. She has testified a number of instances that Depp has quite a few substance abuse points. Depp claims he has by no means been hooked on alcohol or medicine (excluding Roxicodone, for which he acquired medical therapy).
Heard testified she had solely taken medicine with Depp twice of their relationship, on a visit to the Hicksville Trailer Palace in California and on a flight to Russia.
Vasquez requested Heard about an e-mail containing what Heard claimed was a tentative schedule for the couple’s marriage ceremony. The e-mail included a scheduled time for “medicine and music.”
Vasquez additionally learn a textual content despatched by Heard the day earlier than her thirtieth birthday the place she asks Depp to convey wine “and perhaps a joint.”
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A brand new audio clip was additionally introduced in court docket that includes one other argument between the couple.
Heard, laughing, calls Depp a “sellout” and a “joke,” mocking his profession. She additionally tells Depp to “suck my d—ok” within the clip.
“Your jealousy is so tragic,” Depp stated within the audio recording. He mocks Heard in return with a protracted chant of “Aquaman!”
An outdated deposition of Heard was performed in court docket following the day’s lunch break. Within the clip, Heard — who’s seen consuming a snack whereas being questioned — is performed audio of Depp accusing her of kicking a rest room door into his head.
“I bear in mind hitting you as a response to the door factor,” Heard stated within the audio clip, additionally claiming Depp had pressed the door over her toes. Heard is visually dismissive within the clip, laughing at instances.
In court docket Tuesday, Heard testified she was laughing due to the legal professionals on the opposite aspect of the desk, not seen within the recording. She claimed they had been the dismissive ones and that they had been “rolling their eyes” at her, inflicting her to have that response.
In closing their cross-examination, Depp’s legal professionals requested Heard a few earlier, much-discussed home violence cost in opposition to her.
(In 2009, Heard was arrested for misdemeanour assault within the fourth diploma/home violence after allegedly putting her then-girlfriend Tasya van Ree at an airport.)
For the reason that incident, Ree has launched a public assertion saying Heard was “wrongfully accused” of home violence. In 2011, the arrest info was withdrawn.
Upon beginning redirect, Heard’s lawyer requested her why she thought Depp wouldn’t “look her within the eye” all through the trial, as questioned by Vasquez earlier.
“As a result of he’s responsible,” answered Heard, wanting straight at Depp, who smiled and appeared to chuckle as he whispered along with his counsel sitting subsequent to him.
Because the redirect continued, Heard’s lawyer confronted fixed objections from Depp’s crew. After practically half-hour and just a few viable questions, Heard instructed the court docket she didn’t ask for a better divorce settlement from Depp as a result of she “didn’t need it.”
After Heard’s cross-examination wrapped up, the court docket was proven video depositions that includes former buddies of Depp and Heard – iO Tillett Wright and Raquel Pennington.
Wright, an creator, photographer, and former journalist for the New York Instances, shared particulars about his relationship with each actors, who he stated he had shut relationships with whereas the pair had been married and relationship.
He stated he’d by no means witnessed Depp abuse Heard, however did say that the Pirates of the Caribbean star could possibly be “merciless” and “surly” and “extraordinarily paranoid” when ingesting and utilizing medicine, and he stated he’d heard Depp say “terrible” issues about Heard up to now.
Wright lived on one in every of Depp’s properties for about 9 months, he stated, and shaped an in depth bond with the actor in that point. He stated he was additionally shut with Depp’s youngsters, who known as him “Uncle iO.”
When Depp was sober, Wright described him as “pretty and magical and really humorous.”
“Johnny, when sober, was extremely ludic and imaginative and I felt a kindred reference to him and a shared perspective on life.”
Nevertheless, when Depp drank or did medicine, which Wright stated he witnessed typically, he stated Depp grew to become a darkish determine, speaking poorly about Heard’s look and expertise, often throwing glasses or bottles, and performing jealous and paranoid.
He additionally recounted a time when he acquired a telephone name from Heard and Depp after the incident the place Depp discovered feces on his mattress and tried to pin it on Heard.
iO Tillet Wright, buddy of Amber Heard, testifies by way of videoconference within the courtroom on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 17, 2022.
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Wright denied that he or Heard had defecated on the mattress, however as he tried to elucidate this to Depp he stated Depp grew to become more and more agitated.
“After I realized he was critical, I used to be like ‘Okay, to start with, I wasn’t there that day,’” Wright stated.
“He grew to become increasingly agitated. Then I heard a noise and the telephone dropped.”
Wright stated he heard Depp’s voice say to Heard: “Oh, you suppose I hit you? You suppose I f–king hit you? What if I peel your f–king hair again?”
“Then I heard the telephone drop and Amber screamed,” he stated.
The court docket additionally heard the start of a deposition from Pennington, Heard’s former finest buddy.
Raquel Pennington testifies by way of videoconference within the courtroom on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 17, 2022.
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Pennington stated that whereas her relationship with Heard “grew aside” in recent times, she stated she didn’t think about Heard an enemy.
She stated she’d witnessed Depp and Heard’s fights through the years and described Depp’s behaviour as “offended and aggressive” through the fights.
Nevertheless, she stated she witnessed Heard turn into aggressive, too, noting one time when Heard both pushed or hit her when she was unable to seek out one thing in the home she was sharing with Heard after her divorce from Depp.
Pennington’s deposition continues Wednesday.
On Monday, legal professionals tried to color Heard as a duplicitous witness, pointing to numerous pictures and tv clips that had been taken across the instances of alleged abuse, arguing they didn’t present any seen accidents.
This mix of images created on Might 16, 2022, reveals U.S. actress Amber Heard as she testifies within the courtroom on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va.
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Heard defended herself, saying that she was typically capable of cowl up the markings with make-up and scale back swelling with ice.
Heard additionally denied leaking photographs of stated accidents, which made their technique to the quilt of Folks Journal in 2016. She additionally stated she was not the one who leaked — the day earlier than the deposition in her divorce settlement — a video of Depp smashing cupboards in a drunken rage.
All through Monday’s testimony, Heard insisted she “by no means wished to harm Johnny,” and stated she deliberately tried to cover any bodily accidents she sustained by the hands of Depp in an effort to “shield” him.
“All I’ve is my identify. All I’ve is my integrity, and that’s what he tried to take from me,” she stated. She added that, within the divorce, she was “not inquisitive about Johnny’s cash.”
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Nevertheless, Depp’s legal professionals argued that Heard was, in actual fact, out for Depp’s cash, highlighting the truth that she has but to make good on the charity donations she promised from her $7-million divorce settlement.
US actor Johnny Depp returns to the courtroom after a break on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, Might 17, 2022.
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Heard had publicly promised to separate the proceeds between two charities — the American Civil Liberties Union and a California youngsters’s hospital.
“I exploit ‘pledge’ and ‘donation’ synonymously,” Heard testified.
“I don’t,” replied Vasquez.
Heard instructed the court docket she hasn’t been capable of parcel out the cash but “as a result of Johnny sued me.”
Earlier within the proceedings, which started on April 12 and can wrap up on Might 27, Depp denied lots of the allegations, insisting that he’s a “Southern gentleman” and that he had not been hooked on alcohol or illicit medicine.
This week, the jury may also hear from Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez, in addition to actor Ellen Barkin, who was in a short relationship with Depp through the Nineteen Nineties.
Depp can also be anticipated to be known as again to the witness stand as a part of Heard’s case.
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