Amber Heard mentioned that Johnny Depp would change into a “monster” when he was ingesting.
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Amber Heard testified on Monday that she filed for divorce from “monster” Johnny Depp in Might 2016 as a result of she feared for her life.
“I needed to go away him,” the 36-year-old actress Heard informed the jury on the defamation path filed in opposition to her by her former husband. “I knew I would not survive if I did not.
“I used to be so scared that it was going to finish actually badly for me,” she mentioned.
“On the time it felt like the toughest factor I’ve ever needed to do,” Heard mentioned of submitting for divorce. “I had labored so onerous to attempt to make this relationship work.”
“It was onerous as a result of I liked Johnny a lot,” she mentioned. “I liked him a lot.”
Heard mentioned the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star would change into a “monster” when he was ingesting and her efforts to curtail his drug and alcohol use had failed.
“The monster had been this factor that was now the traditional and never the exception,” she mentioned. “The violence was now regular.”
Heard mentioned the identical week she filed for divorce she sought a short lived restraining order following an argument throughout which Depp threw a cell phone at her, hitting her within the face.
The 58-year-old Depp, throughout his 4 days on the witness stand, denied ever putting Heard and claimed that she was the one who was incessantly violent.
Depp filed go well with in opposition to Heard over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Submit in December 2018 during which she described herself as a “public determine representing home abuse.”
Heard, who had a starring position in “Aquaman,” didn’t title Depp within the op-ed, however he sued her for implying he was a home abuser and is looking for $50 million in damages.
The Texas-born Heard countersued, asking for $100 million and claiming she suffered “rampant bodily violence and abuse” at his arms.
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Heard additionally testified about an incident that occurred whereas the couple have been staying at chateau in France.
She mentioned they have been watching a pre-release trailer of a film she appeared in known as “London Fields” and the film-makers had “unbeknownst to me” put in a intercourse scene utilizing a physique double.
“Johnny freaked out as a result of it regarded like me,” she mentioned. “So I’ve an extremely jealous man who already is upset with me for breaking the rule that I’ve a intercourse scene.
“I am telling him it wasn’t me. I did not shoot that scene,” she mentioned. “He was irate and was calling me a liar, a whore, amongst different issues.
She mentioned Depp slapped her within the face and punched her within the jaw.
Heard’s attorneys are anticipated to wrap up their questioning of the actress on Monday earlier than turning her over to Depp’s authorized workforce for cross-examination.
Choose Penney Azcarate has scheduled closing arguments within the case for Might 27, after which it can go to the jury.
Depp’s legal professionals have put consultants on the stand who testified that he has misplaced hundreds of thousands due to the abuse accusations, together with a $22.5-million payday for a sixth installment of “Pirates.”
Depp filed the defamation grievance in the US after shedding a separate libel case in London in November 2020 that he introduced in opposition to The Solar for calling him a “wife-beater.”
Depp, a three-time Oscar nominee, and Heard met in 2009 on the set of “The Rum Diary” and have been married in February 2015. Their divorce was finalized two years later.
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