Amber Heard sparred with Johnny Depp’s lawyer as cross-examination obtained underway on Monday afternoon. The 36-year-old actress appeared particularly bothered when the subject of her $7 million divorce settlement was introduced up, which was by no means donated in full to charity as promised. Heard was additionally grilled about not looking for medical therapy after Depp’s quite a few alleged assaults.
Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, kicked issues off by asking Heard: “Mr. Depp hasn’t checked out you as soon as this whole trial, has he?”
“Not that I’ve observed, no,” the Aquaman star replied.
“You’ve got checked out him although many instances, have not you?” Vasquez stated.
“Sure I’ve,” Heard responded.
“You recognize precisely why Mr. Depp will not look again at you, do not you?” Vasquez requested. “He promised you’ll by no means see his eyes once more, is not that true?”
In July 2016, two months after Heard filed for a short lived restraining order, she organized to fulfill with Depp in San Francisco. The pair’s former agent testified at trial it was as a result of the actress wished to get again along with Depp, one thing she denied earlier on Monday. (“I wished to attenuate the animosity, I wished to reconcile in that method. I did not need to get again along with him.”)
An audio recording from the assembly was performed to the jury during which Depp tells Heard from then on, “We wont need to see one another once more. … You’ll not see my eyes once more.”
Vasquez stated to Heard, “He stored that promise, hasn’t he?”
“So far as I do know, he can’t take a look at me,” Heard replied.
“He will not take a look at you, proper Ms. Heard?” Vasquez stated.
“He cannot,” Heard shot again.
The strain did not ease from there. Heard was proven images from a number of occasions from 2014 to 2015 during which she seems unhurt, hours or days after alleged violent incidents with Depp.
After the 2014 Met Gala, Heard testified that Depp hit her so arduous she thought he broke her nostril. Heard did not search medical therapy and went to Spike TV’s Don Rickles: One Evening Solely occasion the next night time with Depp.
When requested if she sought medical therapy after what she alleges was a three-day hostage scenario in Australia in March 2015, Heard replied: “I didn’t search medical therapy after Australia, no.”
“Not for the rape?” Vasquez requested.
Heard, who flinched on the phrase, replied, “No I did not inform anybody.” The actress testified earlier this month that Depp penetrated her with a liquor bottle and that she bled afterwards.
Depp agreed to pay Heard $7 million after they settled their divorce in 2016. The cash got here in installments however was absolutely paid in February 2018. The courtroom was proven a clip of Heard on a chat present in October 2018 saying she donated your complete settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Kids’s Hospital of Los Angeles as a result of she “wished nothing” from her ex-husband.
“I’ve not been capable of fulfill these obligations but,” Heard admitted below oath.
Earlier on Monday, Heard stated throughout direct examination she was unable to satisfy her pledge of $3.5 million to every charity “as a result of Johnny sued me for $50 million.” Nevertheless, Vasquez famous that Heard had the complete settlement for 13 months earlier than she was sued by Depp over her 2018 op-ed within the Washington Publish. Vasquez prompt that Heard “wished Mr. Depp’s cash” and that she solely vowed to donate for good press.
“You wished to be seen … as a noble sufferer of home violence,” Vasquez stated.
Heard fired again, “I’ve by no means, by no means wished to be seen as a sufferer. Nor have I ever known as myself one.”
Vasquez stated Heard lied below oath within the U.Okay. trial as she testified “everything of my divorce settlement was donated to charity.” This prompted a backwards and forwards concerning the distinction between the phrases “pledge” and “donation” as Heard stated she pledged the cash to charity, which she nonetheless intends to satisfy.
“I take advantage of ‘pledge’ and ‘donation’ synonymously,” Heard testified.
“I do not,” Vasquez replied, earlier than noting how “a lot of the cash” that has been donated to ACLU and CHLA in Heard’s title is just not from the actress, however moderately Elon Musk.
“I imagine Elon made a donation in my honor in one of many years,” Heard confirmed, sustaining the Tesla CEO’s contribution did “not depend in direction of my pledge.”
Earlier on Monday, Heard testified that Musk donated $500,000 to every charity “in my honor.”
“Elon, who was my boyfriend on the time, had his personal charitable contributions that he made,” she informed the courtroom. Heard related with Musk on the 2016 Met Gala weeks earlier than submitting for divorce.
“I did not acknowledge [Elon] till we began speaking [on the red carpet] and he jogged my memory we had met as soon as earlier than,” she informed the courtroom.
Heard “ended up going on my own” to the Met Gala as she and Depp weren’t on talking phrases from their battle on her thirtieth birthday in April 2016.
“I sat subsequent to an empty place setting for Johnny that they cleared as quickly as we realized he successfully stood me up on the pink carpet,” Heard declared.
As for Musk, the actress stated the entrepreneur “appeared like an actual gentleman.”
“He was very nice. He sat at a close-by desk and we obtained to talking that night time and ultimately turned associates,” she added.
Heard’s group issued the next assertion forward of cross-examination:
There’s an previous saying by trial legal professionals: when the info are in your facet, argue the info. When the info will not be in your facet, pound away on the rostrum. Right this moment, we count on Depp’s attorneys will as an alternative pound away on the sufferer. We concern it will likely be equal components shameful and determined. And, the overwhelming proof — the reality — is just not on Depp’s facet.
The one factor we suspect Depp’s attorneys will keep away from is the central problem of this trial: does Amber or any girl have the First Modification Proper of Freedom of Speech.
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