Key moments within the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial

Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are suing one another for defamation, every claiming they had been abused earlier than and through their roughly two-year marriage.

A Virginia jury is listening to the case, which is anticipated to run by way of late Might.

Beneath are key moments within the trial thus far:

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Depp testified that he by no means hit Heard or another girl

He stated she was the one who grew to become abusive and “bullied” him with “demeaning identify calling.”

“If I stayed to argue, ultimately, I used to be certain it was going to escalate into violence, and oftentimes it did.”

The pair supplied differing accounts of an early 2015 argument in Australia, the place Depp was filming a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film

Depp stated Heard threw a vodka bottle that severed the highest of his proper center finger. The actor stated he went into shock and wrote messages to Heard on the wall utilizing blood from the finger.

Heard sobbed as she instructed the jury that Depp sexually assaulted her that night time by inserting a liquor bottle in her vagina.

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“I used to be scared,” she stated. “I had simply married him.”

Just a few months later, Heard stated, Depp broke her nostril and ripped out chunks of her hair throughout one other violent encounter.

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Heard’s attorneys launched images that they stated confirmed accidents after varied arguments, together with scars on her arm that had been seen as she posed on a purple carpet, and redness and swelling round a watch that she stated was struck by a cellphone thrown by Depp.

A lawyer for Depp confirmed photographs from public appearances that they stated had been taken across the time of their fights and appeared to indicate no accidents, and urged Heard edited images to make the redness seem extra pronounced. Heard stated she by no means edited the images.

Depp testified that feces had been discovered within the couple’s mattress in 2016

Considered one of his safety guards stated Heard instructed him it was “a horrible sensible joke gone incorrect.”

Heard denied any involvement and urged one of many couple’s canine was accountable.

Heard’s attorneys launched textual content messages by which Depp known as Heard a “filthy w—e” and stated he needed her useless

Writing to actor Paul Bettany in 2013, Depp stated: “Let’s drown her earlier than we burn her” and “I’ll f–k her burnt corpse afterward to verify she is useless.”

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