Johnny Depp has denied ever being bodily abusive in the direction of Amber Heard.
Washington:
Legal professionals for Amber Heard on Monday ended their marathon grilling of Johnny Depp at his defamation trial towards his former spouse by enjoying audio recordings of heated arguments between the couple.
“Shut up fats ass,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star is heard telling Heard in a single recording performed for the seven-member jury listening to the case in Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom.
In one other audiotape, the 36-year-old Heard, who had a starring position within the film “Aquaman,” accuses Depp of getting “beat the shit out of” her and throwing a “swing” at her.
Depp has denied ever being bodily abusive in the direction of Heard and has claimed repeatedly on the trial that she was the one who was incessantly violent.
Depp filed a defamation swimsuit towards Heard over a column she wrote for The Washington Submit in December 2018 through which she described herself as a “public determine representing home abuse.”
Heard by no means named Depp however he sued her for implying he was a home abuser and is searching 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.
‘Hit items’
Depp, a three-time Oscar nominee, and Heard met in 2009 on the set of the movie “The Rum Diary” and had been married in February 2015. Their divorce was finalized two years later.
Heard’s attorneys have alleged that Depp would develop into a bodily and sexually abusive “monster” when he was drunk or on medicine, and pressed him extensively about his drug and alcohol use throughout his three days of cross-examination on the witness stand.
“If anybody had an issue with my consuming, at any time in my life, it was me,” Depp mentioned. “The one particular person I’ve ever abused in my life is myself.”
Heard’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn additionally sought to persuade the jury that the accusations towards Depp pre-dated the Washington Submit column that Heard wrote.
Rottenborn famous that Heard had filed a short lived restraining order towards Depp in Los Angeles in Could 2016, citing abuse, and quoted headlines from various newspaper articles.
“These are all hit items,” Depp replied.
Depp additionally performed down among the harsh language he used to explain Heard in textual content messages to varied pals, together with one which mentioned “I can solely hope that karma kicks in and takes the reward of breath from her.”
“It is simply irreverent and summary humor,” Depp mentioned, and he was “ashamed that this needs to be unfold on the world like peanut butter.”
Severed finger
After Depp completed testifying, his attorneys known as as a witness Ben King, an Englishman who managed the house the place the couple stayed in Australia throughout the 2015 filming of the fifth installment of the “Pirates” franchise.
A lot of the testimony on the trial has revolved round an incident that occurred there through which the tip of the center finger of Depp’s proper hand was severed.
Depp informed the jury it occurred when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, smashing the finger towards the sting of a bar in the home. Heard’s legal professionals urged that Depp minimize it with a knife within the kitchen.
King’s testimony appeared to again up Depp’s account.
The home supervisor mentioned he discovered the severed fingertip in a tissue on the ground of the bar together with a damaged bottle of Stolichnaya vodka.
He mentioned a “huge chunk” of the marble bartop had been damaged off.
King mentioned that whereas he had witnessed frequent arguments between the couple throughout their keep in Australia, and one other in London, he had by no means seen them be violent.
Testifying final week, Depp mentioned the allegations that he was a “drunken, cocaine-fueled menace who beat ladies” have price him “every part.”
The actor mentioned {that a} “couple of days” after the Submit column appeared, Disney introduced he would now not seem as Captain Jack Sparrow within the blockbuster “Pirates” franchise.
Depp filed the defamation grievance in america after shedding a separate libel case in London in November 2020 that he introduced towards The Solar for calling him a “wife-beater.”
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