By Lisa Richwine
-“Aquaman” actor Amber Heard broke down in tears on the witness stand on Thursday as she mentioned ex-husband Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle and threatened her life shortly after the pair have been married.
Testifying in a broadly watched defamation trial, Heard mentioned she visited Depp in Australia a few month after their wedding ceremony in early 2015 when he was filming the fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film.
On their first night collectively, Heard mentioned, a deliberate dinner on the home the place Depp was staying advanced into an argument. Depp, who she mentioned was ingesting, pushed her in opposition to the fridge and held her there by her throat.
Heard mentioned she broke free and retreated upstairs, returning later in her nightgown to search out Depp nonetheless awake. She mentioned she tried to get him to eat since they'd by no means had dinner, however he was “belligerent” and threw bottles that broke round her.
Depp ripped off her nightgown, leaving her bare, she mentioned, and threw her on a ping-pong desk earlier than inserting a bottle into her vagina.
“He was shoving it within me time and again,” mentioned Heard, who shook her head and sobbed as she described the episode. She mentioned she saved considering that she hoped the bottle was not one of many ones that was damaged.
In the course of the assault, Depp repeatedly mentioned “I’ll fucking kill you,” she informed the jury.
“I used to be scared,” Heard mentioned. “I had simply married him.”
A number of months later, again dwelling in Los Angeles, Heard mentioned Depp broke her nostril and ripped out chunks of hair in one other violent encounter.
Depp, 58, testified earlier within the trial that he by no means hit Heard and argued that she was the one who was the abuser.
The star of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies is suing Heard, 36, for $50 million, saying she defamed him when she claimed she was a sufferer of home abuse. Heard has counter-sued for $100 million, arguing Depp smeared her by calling her a liar.
Depp has supplied a unique account of the incident in Australia. He informed jurors that Heard was the one who hurled objects, hitting him with a vodka bottle that severed the highest of his proper center finger.
His attorneys confirmed proof of his hospital go to to surgically restore the damage.
Depp acknowledged utilizing blood from his finger to write down on the wall to remind Heard of “lies” she had informed him. He described her as “bullying” to him all through their relationship and mentioned she left him “damaged.”
The authorized case hinges on a December 2018 opinion piece Heard authored within the Washington Submit. The article by no means talked about Depp by title, however his lawyer informed jurors it was clear Heard was referencing him. The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2017 after lower than two years of marriage.
Depp, as soon as amongst Hollywood’s greatest stars, mentioned Heard’s allegations price him “the whole lot.” A brand new “Pirates” film was placed on maintain, and Depp was changed within the “Unbelievable Beasts” movie franchise, a “Harry Potter” spinoff.
Heard’s attorneys have argued that she informed the reality and that her opinion was protected free speech below the U.S. Structure’s First Modification.
A state court docket choose in Virginia’s Fairfax County is overseeing the trial, which is in recess till Might 16. Closing arguments are scheduled for Might 27.
Lower than two years in the past, Depp misplaced a libel case in opposition to the Solar, a British tabloid that labeled him a “spouse beater.” A London Excessive Courtroom choose dominated he had repeatedly assaulted Heard.
Depp’s attorneys have mentioned they filed the U.S. case in Fairfax County as a result of the Washington Submit is printed there. The newspaper shouldn't be a defendant.
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