Amber Heard testified Thursday that her ex-husband Johnny Depp He slapped and kicked her on a plane after accusing her of having an affair with co-star James Franco.
“I felt embarrassed”Heard told the jury in the multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit filed against her by Depp. “It was the first time something like this had happened in front of someone.”
The 36-year-old actress denounced several cases of physical abuse by the star of Pirates of the Caribbean during his second day on the witness stand in the judgment that is celebrated in the Court of Circuit of the County of Fairfax, in Virginia.
Depp, 58, has filed a lawsuit against Heard over an op-ed he wrote for Washington Post in December 2018 in which he described himself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Heard, who had a leading role in the film Aquamandid not name Depp in the op-ed, But he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages.
Heard, born in Texas, countersued asking for 100 million dollars and assuring that she suffered “unbridled physical violence and abuse” at his hands.
“He was mad at me for taking the job with James Franco”Heard said, referring to the 2014 film The Adderall Diaries. “He hated, he hated James Franco and he already accused me of having a kind of secret relationship with him in my past, since we had done together Pineapple Express”he said, referring to the 2008 film.
“He called me a bitch”Heard added, recounting the incident that took place on a May 2014 flight.
He said Depp, who had been drinking, slapped him across the face at one point and kicked him in the back as he moved to another seat. Members of Depp’s security team and their assistants were on the plane at the time, she said.
“I fell to the ground”he remembered. “Nobody said anything, nobody did anything. It was as if you could hear a pin drop on the plane. And I remember feeling really embarrassed.”
Like a baby
Depp, during four days of testimony at the trial, denied physically abusing Heard and claimed that she was the one who frequently became violent. Heard also testified about other times Depp allegedly punched her, including one in which he said he “suspected her nose was broken.”
Heard, between fits of tears, provided details about Depp’s extensive drug and alcohol use and his recurring efforts to stay sober during their relationship.
He said a bodyguard once had to carry an unconscious Depp in his arms “like a baby” to his rented London house. “I remember thinking this had to be this way. I was encouraged that we were in a new chapter, that Johnny had finally hit rock bottom,” she said.
And he claimed that, despite a “million promises to be clean and sober,” couples therapy and rehabilitation efforts, Depp always returned to drinking and using marijuana and cocaine.
Depp’s lawyers earlier put experts on the stand who testified that he has lost millions because of the abuse allegations.including a payment of 22.5 million dollars for the sixth installment of the franchise Pirates of the Caribbean.
Depp filed the defamation lawsuit in the United States after lose in November 2020 a separate libel case in London that he brought against The Sun 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 they were married in February 2015. Their divorce was finalized two years later.
(By Chris Lefkow – AFP)
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