“if he (Johnny Depp) was ingesting there was virtually all the time a battle,” Amber Heard’s sister mentioned.
Washington:
Johnny Depp grabbed his then-wife Amber Heard by the hair and repeatedly struck her within the face throughout a heated argument a few month after their marriage, her sister mentioned Wednesday.
Heard additionally punched Depp throughout the March 2015 battle at their Los Angeles penthouse, Whitney Henriquez testified on the high-profile defamation case between the movie star couple.
Henriquez, Heard’s 34-year-old youthful sister, mentioned the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star sought to have her signal a non-disclosure settlement after the incident, however she declined to take action.
The 58-year-old Depp filed swimsuit towards 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 function in “Aquaman,” didn’t title Depp within the op-ed, however he sued her for implying he was a home abuser and is in search of $50 million in damages.
The Texas-born Heard countersued, asking for $100 million and claiming she suffered “rampant bodily violence and abuse” at his palms.
Depp, throughout his 4 days on the witness stand, denied ever placing Heard and claimed that she was the one who was often violent.
Henriquez testified on behalf of her sister on Wednesday — day 18 of the trial being heard by a seven-person jury in Virginia.
Henriquez, who lived for a time in the identical penthouse advanced as Depp and Heard, mentioned the couple had a risky relationship.
“When he was sober issues had been great,” she mentioned. “When he wasn’t sober they had been horrible.”
“If he was utilizing or if he was ingesting there was virtually all the time a battle,” she mentioned.
– ‘Saying actually nasty issues’ –
Henriquez recounted intimately the March 2015 incident on the Los Angeles penthouse advanced owned by Depp.
She mentioned Heard woke her up in the course of the night time to inform her that Depp had been dishonest on her and that the newly married couple then received right into a battle.
“They had been saying actually nasty issues to at least one one other,” Henriquez mentioned.
“Johnny runs up the steps,” she mentioned. “He comes up behind me, strikes me within the again sort of.”
“I hear Amber shout ‘Do not hit my fucking sister,'” she mentioned. “She smacks him, lands one.”
Henriquez mentioned Depp’s bodyguard moved to intervene, “however by that point Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her repeatedly within the face with the opposite.”
The bodyguard pulled them aside, she mentioned, and Depp then proceeded to trash the penthouse, breaking quite a few objects within the kitchen and emptying racks of Heard’s garments on the bottom.
Depp’s attorneys have put consultants on the stand who testified that he has misplaced tens of millions due to the abuse accusations, together with a $22.5-million payday for a sixth installment of “Pirates.”
Depp filed the defamation criticism in the US after shedding a separate libel case in London in November 2020 that he introduced towards 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 had been married in February 2015. Their divorce was finalized two years later.
Choose Penney Azcarate has scheduled closing arguments within the case for Could 27, after which it can go to the jury.
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