WARNING: This story contains particulars which can be graphic in nature about sexual violence and could also be disturbing to some readers.
Amber Heard testified for a second day telling the jury in graphic element how she was allegedly crushed by Johnny Depp and sexually assaulted with a liquor bottle. The 36-year-old actress spoke about a number of alleged incidents of abuse on Thursday, however essentially the most disturbing story was from the pair’s Australia journey in March 2015.
The Aquaman star was emotional all day, however broke down on the stand when she was requested to inform the jury about Depp allegedly penetrating her with a bottle throughout a drug-fueled rampage.
“I can not consider I’ve to,” she sobbed.
“I am so sorry,” Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehof, replied.
“Johnny had the bottle inside me and was shoving it inside me over, and over once more,” Heard advised the court docket.
Depp has vehemently denied Heard’s claims of home violence and sexual assault. His spokesperson issued an announcement after court docket about her “convoluted testimony.”
“As Mr. Depp’s counsel accurately predicted of their opening statements final month, Ms. Heard did certainly ship ‘the efficiency of her life’ in her direct examination. Whereas Ms. Heard’s tales have continued to develop new and handy particulars, Mr. Depp’s recollections have remained precisely the identical all through the six painful years since her first allegations had been made,” Depp’s spokesperson tells Yahoo Leisure. “His reality — the reality — is similar irrespective of the surroundings by which it’s has been introduced. The upcoming cross examination from Mr. Depp’s workforce will likely be most telling, and will definitely spotlight the various fallacies Ms. Heard has now tried to cross off as reality all through her convoluted testimony.”
On Thursday, Heard testified that whereas in Australia the place Depp was filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, she was abused for days. The actress mentioned that earlier than she arrived, she and Depp fought as he accused her of getting an affair with actor Eddie Redmayne. (Heard and Redmayne had been filming The Danish Lady.)
“All I wished to do was see my new husband,” she mentioned. When she arrived, she knew one thing was fallacious. “He’d misplaced a ton of weight so I simply knew one thing was up.”
Heard mentioned Depp did MDMA the primary evening, denying his declare that he secured the medicine at her request. A combat broke out about his supposed substance use.
“He shoves me up in opposition to the fridge. He has me by the throat and he simply was holding me there by my throat and I puzzled if it was the medicine, I puzzled if it was him,” she mentioned, claiming he was “bashing me in opposition to the wall subsequent to the fridge.”
Heard admitted to “screaming at” Depp and that she “slapped him throughout the face” earlier than barricading herself upstairs. She finally took remedy and went to mattress. The subsequent morning, Heard mentioned she walked downstairs and Depp “was nonetheless up.”
“He had not slept, he had not eaten. I attempted to get him to eat. We get in an argument,” she recalled, claiming Depp accused her of getting an affair with Redmayne and her former co-stars, Billie Bob Thornton and Jim Sturgess. She testified Depp took “both 8 or 10 tablets of MDMA.”
“He was simply belligerent, throwing issues, screaming at me,” Heard defined. She advised the jury she could not recall how “the following a part of the violence” was “even initiated.”
“Once more he has me up in opposition to the wall… I hit my head laborious,” Heard testified. “I bear in mind pushing him off of me. I bear in mind the identify calling — ‘whore, slut, fats ass.'”
Heard claimed Depp was “squeezing my neck, it obtained actually nasty.”
“In some unspecified time in the future I shoved him laborious to get him off me,” she recalled. “He mentioned, ‘You wanna go little woman?'”
Heard mentioned Depp was “taunting” her with a liquor bottle. She lastly obtained ahold of it and “slammed it down proper on the bottom.”
“That actually set him off. So silly,” Heard emotionally recounted. “It was like a lightbulb swap went off. He begins screaming. I do not know if he backhanded me or hit me usually.”
Heard mentioned she flew to the bottom and Depp began smashing liquor bottles far and wide.
“In some unspecified time in the future he had a damaged bottle up in opposition to my face,” she mentioned. “He advised me he’d carve up my face… it was terrifying.”
Heard, who was in a nightgown, mentioned she was trapped and Depp grabbed her “slamming me from the wall to the countertop.”
“I bear in mind at one level he is teasing me, taunting me he has my breast in his hand. My nightgown got here utterly off, it was ripped off of me. I used to be bare and slipping round on this tile and making an attempt to get my footing,” Heard testified. “He is flinging me round, in some unspecified time in the future I am up in opposition to the wall, he is screaming at me that he f****** hates me, that I ruined his life… he begins punching the wall subsequent to my head, holding me by the neck… I’ve by no means been so scared in my life.”
Heard mentioned she “could not get by” to Depp and that his eyes had been “black.” What occurred subsequent, based on the actress, is disturbing.
“The subsequent factor I bear in mind, I used to be bent over backwards on the bar which means my chest was up,” she mentioned by tears. “I might really feel this strain on my pubic bone.”
Heard remembered “being actually nonetheless, not wanting to maneuver.”
“I bear in mind trying across the room, I bear in mind all of the damaged bottles, damaged glass… I did not know if the bottle he had inside me was damaged, I could not really feel it, I could not really feel ache,” she emotionally declared. “I regarded round and I noticed a lot damaged glass that I did not know if he would know if it was damaged or not, and I simply bear in mind considering, ‘Please God please, I hope it isn’t damaged.'”
Heard mentioned she will be able to’t bear in mind how the assault ended.
“I do not understand how I obtained off the countertop. I simply bear in mind being within the toilet. I bear in mind retching, I bear in mind the sound my voice was making, I bear in mind I misplaced management of my bladder, I bear in mind simply retching. I bear in mind there was some blood on the ground. I obtained up in some unspecified time in the future,” she testified. “I do not understand how that evening ended. I do not bear in mind what occurred.”
Throughout the alleged sexual assault, Heard claimed Depp mentioned, “I am going to f****** kill you.”
“He mentioned it to me time and again,” she testified, saying she bled. Heard advised the court docket she “wasn’t excited about” the ache on the time.
“I used to be heartbroken. Finally I noticed I might be harm as a result of I used to be bleeding, however I satisfied myself… the bottle wasn’t damaged and the discomfort I used to be feeling afterwards simply paled compared to how scared, shocked I used to be,” Heard defined. “I simply married this man.”
Heard mentioned she took two sleeping tablets and when she awoke on day three, she discovered Depp nonetheless awake, blaring Marilyn Manson music. He was injured.
“I noticed this brown on the partitions happening the steps… it was apparent it was dried blood,” she mentioned. “There was blood on the carpet, I might see blood drips. I believed it was from my arms or toes.”
When Heard positioned Depp, his hand was wrapped in rags. She claimed he mentioned one thing like “Look what you made me do, I did this for you.”
Depp testified his finger was severed when Heard threw liquor bottles at him. Pictures of the Australia home had been proven in court docket and whereas a number of the destruction is seen, it isn’t as demolished as one may count on. The actress mentioned she thinks rooms had been cleaned up earlier than the images had been taken.
Heard left Australia, however not Depp. They reconciled and the actress recounted three extra allegations of very violent abuse. One was two weeks later, the place she mentioned a combat ensued when she found he cheated on her after discovering texts on his iPad.
“He was texting this girl that he had a [sexual] relationship with on and off form of in the beginning of our relationship, so I acknowledged the identify, however the date was proper after the marriage. I noticed he had gone to her home after we obtained married,” Heard mentioned.
“I freaked out. I instantly confronted him about it. I did not care in that second if he did kill me, which was seemingly confronting him at that stage of our lives. I did not even care anymore,” Heard claimed. “He had already ripped my coronary heart out.”
Amid the preventing, Heard mentioned her sister Whitney “put herself between Johnny and I.”
“I see my little sister together with her again to the staircase… I do not hesitate, I do not wait, I simply immediately consider Kate Moss and stairs and I swung at him,” Heard mentioned, referring to a rumor that there was violence in Depp and Moss’s relationship.
Heard admitted to punching Depp.
“I hadn’t landed a blow and for the primary time I hit him, like really hit him, sq. within the face. He did not push my sister down the steps,” she advised the jury.
Whitney is predicted to testify later within the trial. Depp’s bodyguard who witnessed the altercation beforehand testified that the actor by no means shoved Whitney as Heard has instructed. He spoke about Heard giving Depp a “good little shiner” and that the Depp by no means bodily attacked Heard in the course of the incident.
Heard testified about an alleged brutal combat in Dec. 2015 the place she mentioned she handed out in the midst of Depp’s assault. She claimed he even broke the mattress whereas he was on high of her. A number of pictures had been proven of the actress’s obvious accidents.
Heard mentioned she in the end reconciled with Depp and even went on a visit to the Bahamas with him and his children two weeks later. Whereas on the island, she alleged she was abused and sexually assaulted after she upset the actor.
“He grabbed me… shoved his fingers inside me, however by my bathing go well with,” Heard testified, including that Depp “simply form of held me there.” Depp purportedly yelled, “You suppose you are so f****** robust, now what?”
All through Heard’s testimony on Wednesday, Depp saved his head down and made it a degree by no means to have a look at his ex-wife. Halfway by the day on Thursday, it seems the 2 lastly locked eyes.
Courtroom is adjourned till Monday, Might 16 the place Heard is predicted to complete testifying and face cross-examination from Depp’s authorized workforce.
In the event you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, assist is on the market. RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline is right here for survivors 24/7 with free, nameless assist. 800.656.HOPE (4673) and on-line.rainn.org.
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