Legal professionals for Johnny Depp tried to discredit Amber Heard‘s abuse claims within the former couple’s defamation trial in a single day, introducing a knife she gave as a present to the Pirates of the Caribbean star and affectionate notes she wrote to him.
Initially of Tuesday’s proceedings, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez requested jurors to look at the knife Heard purchased for Depp in 2012. Heard, greatest identified for her position in Aquaman, had testified that Depp had already turn into violent towards her by that point. She additionally testified that Depp “tried to kill [her].”
Love notes exchanged between the pair have been additionally proven to the court docket, and in a single signed by Heard, she wrote that Depp was the “final particular person I ever meant to harm” and “there may be by no means a ok cause to harm you.”
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Depp, 58, is suing Heard for $US50 million (approx. $71.65 million), saying she defamed him when she claimed she was a sufferer of home abuse.
Heard, 36, has countersued for $US100 million (approx. $141 million), arguing that Depp smeared her by calling her a liar.
Depp has testified he by no means hit Heard and argued that she was the abuser of their relationship. He stated she threw a vodka bottle at him in early 2015, severing the highest of his proper center finger. Heard stated she didn’t trigger the finger damage and stated she solely hit him to defend herself or her sister.
Here is what that you must learn about Heard’s second day of cross-examination, and here is what Heard stated on the stand yesterday.
Amber Heard was booed by Johnny Depp’s supporters as she arrived at court docket
Amber Heard requested about massive knife she gifted Johnny Depp
Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez confirmed Heard and Depp’s relationship standing in October 2011, and that their first yr collectively was “magic.”
Vasquez then confirmed a big knife to the jury that Heard had gifted Depp in 2012, after he had already allegedly began abusing her.
“That is the knife you gave to the person who would get drunk and violent towards you?” the lawyer requested.
“That is the knife I gave him as a gift, sure,” she stated, including that she didn’t suppose he would stab her with it.
Johnny Depp’s lawyer grills Amber Heard on alleged 2015 sexual assault with a bottle
Heard has beforehand claimed that Depp sexually assaulted her with a bottle after he sliced off the highest of his finger in Australia in 2015, and Vasquez pressed Heard on the sequence of occasions – Depp smashing a telephone, reducing off a portion of his finger, pinning Heard down on a countertop and allegedly inserting a liquor bottle into her physique.
Heard stated she could not keep in mind the precise sequence of occasions and has by no means claimed she does.
“As I’ve at all times stated, I do not keep in mind precisely what occurred first, or the sequence,” Heard stated.
Heard was then questioned as to why no medical information from the alleged sexual assault exist. In her earlier testimony, Heard claimed she had sustained accidents from the alleged assault and was bleeding.
“I did not search remedy,” Heard replied.
Vasquez then confirmed the court docket messages written in black and purple paint on a mirror within the couple’s Australian residence on the evening of the alleged assault, which Heard denied writing.
She claimed the creator of the notes was Depp, and described them as “loopy conversations with himself.”
One message learn: “She loves bare photographs of herself. So fashionable, so scorching.”
One other learn: “Name Carly Simon she stated it higher babe.”
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Amber Heard’s love notes to Johnny Depp proven to the court docket
Depp’s lawyer learn entries from a journal that Heard stated the couple stored to share love notes.
“Real love is not about simply the insanity of ardour or as an alternative selecting the protection of peace. No, it is about each,” Heard wrote in Could 2015, two months after Depp’s finger damage.
“I nonetheless, maybe greater than ever, need to rip you aside, devour you and savour the style,” she added.
In one other excerpt after their July 2015 honeymoon aboard the Orient Specific prepare, Heard stated she “could not think about a extra attractive honeymoon,” and added, “I really like you an increasing number of each passing day.”
Heard had instructed jurors on Monday that Depp assaulted her and wrapped a T-shirt round her neck in the course of the journey.
A month later, Heard wrote that Depp was “my cornerstone, my coronary heart, my all.”
“You might be my life. I hate it after we battle. I hate having harm you. I really like you greater than something,” she wrote.
Requested about entries, Heard stated she tried to “nurture as a lot peace as she presumably might,” and that “when issues have been good they have been actually good.”
In one other observe, Heard wrote to Depp that the actor was the “final particular person I ever meant to harm” and “there may be by no means a ok cause to harm you.”
The actors wed in February 2015 and their divorce was finalised about two years later.
Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of utilizing his children in opposition to her
The primary few moments of an audio clip performed for the court docket have been inaudible, however Heard was recorded apologising to Depp for “screaming” at him in entrance of his youngsters, Lily-Rose, 22, and Jack, 20.
“I am sorry I f—ed your children up,” Heard says within the audio.
“It was fairly f—ing bizarre for them, you understand?” Depp replies. He additionally tells Heard he “would not want [Heard’s] intelligent comebacks.”
Heard then accused Depp of utilizing his youngsters unfairly in opposition to her.
“Your character has turn into so clear,” she says within the recording. “Particularly while you use [the kids].”
“You are making me see you worse,” Heard says. “I’ve finished nothing however be there for them in a great way.”
Depp’s lawyer admitted the entire dialog into proof however solely performed a couple of seconds in court docket.
Amber Heard left time for ‘medicine and music’ on their wedding ceremony schedule
Depp’s lawyer requested Heard why “medicine” was on the schedule for his or her wedding ceremony within the Bahamas in February 2015.
In a draft e-mail, Heard wrote “after, dance celebration and medicines and music” following the rehearsal dinner on the schedule.
Heard admitted to writing it however stated the schedule modified and the deliberate celebration with medicine by no means occurred.
Amber Heard accused of mendacity about alleged bodily altercation with Johnny Depp
Jury members have been proven photographs of Heard taken in a photoshoot taken two weeks after Depp allegedly punched Heard in mattress on December 15, 2015.
Depp’s lawyer zoomed in on Heard’s face a number of occasions, which didn’t appear to indicate seen accidents.
Heard testified she was carrying make-up on the time as a result of it was a photoshoot.
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Audio demonstrates Amber Heard instructed Johnny Depp to ‘suck my d–k’
In audio recorded by Depp throughout a battle with Heard that was performed to the court docket, Heard tells Depp to “suck my d–k” a number of occasions.
“Suck my d–k, suck my d–k,” Heard says within the recording, which incorporates a number of insults lobbed between the pair. “You are a f—ing child your self, I want I hadn’t purchased into any of the lies you bought.”
Depp tells Heard within the audio she’s a “spoiled f—ing brat” after she says he’s a joke, and he says, “Yeah, I am the joke within the business, Amber.”
“Your jealousy is so tragic,” Depp says.
“Is there no different place so that you can run along with your 15 different homes … go run to the following home,” Heard tells Depp within the recording, asking him to go away.
Amber Heard denies Johnny Depp bought her a task in Aquaman
“Mr. Depp bought you that position in Aquaman?” Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez requested Heard on the stand.
Heard appeared offended on the query, replying, “No, Miss Vazquez. I bought myself that position by auditioning.”
On Monday, Heard testified her position in Aquaman 2 had been considerably lowered, and stories have stated she has lower than 10 minutes of display time within the upcoming movie.
Amber Heard accused of manipulating photographs that present her with a bruise on her face
Certainly one of Depp’s legal professionals accused Heard of modifying a photograph taken in Could 2016 of herself allegedly with bruises on her face.
Vasquez prompt to Heard that she had elevated the saturation on one model of the photograph to make her face seem like extra purple and puffy.
Heard stated the lighting was a results of make-up lights she had turned on.
“I by no means touched a photograph,” Heard stated.
Amber Heard says op-ed was about what occurred to her after she got here ahead with abuse claims, not Johnny Depp
Vasquez requested Heard if her Washington Publish essay, which is on the centre of the defamation case, is about Depp, and Heard stated no.
Heard stated it was about “what occurred to me after [accusing Depp of domestic violence].”
Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp’s group of being behind detrimental tales about her
Heard stated on the stand that Depp’s group planted unflattering tales of her within the media.
“That is when his lawyer leaked an edited clip,” Heard stated in reference to Adam Waldman, Depp’s lawyer in 2020, in response to a headline from early 2020 that stated, “Amber Heard admits to hitting Johnny Depp in recording.”
“Amber Heard slammed door into Johnny Depp’s head,” is one other headline Vasquez learn out.
“These are extra of the PR vegetation,” Heard responded.
A tweet Heard had written on March 26, 2021 in reply to criticism from Waldman was proven to the court docket, which learn, “Sure Mr. Waldman, I’m carrying make-up on this event however whenever you’ll nonetheless be quick.”
Heard’s tweet was in response to Waldman saying Heard’s abuse allegations in opposition to Depp have been a “hoax.”
Waldman’s remarks are the topic of Heard’s countersuit.
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Amber Heard questioned about allegedly abusing her ex-girlfriend
Heard’s cross-examination concluded with questioning surrounded claims she abused her ex-girlfriend, Tasya van Ree.
“Johnny Depp is not the one companion of yours that you have assaulted?” Vasquez requested Heard.
“I’ve by no means assaulted any companion,” Heard stated.
Heard was charged with home violence in opposition to Ree in 2009, although Ree later got here out and stated the incident was a misunderstanding and the fees have been dropped.
Amber Heard will get emotional asking why Johnny Depp cannot take a look at her
Heard instructed the court docket that Depp cannot take a look at her as a result of “he is responsible.”
Elaine Bredehoft, Heard’s lawyer, requested her why Depp refused to have a look at her and has finished so for the reason that begin of the trial.
“As a result of he is responsible,” Heard stated as she stared on the jury.
“He is aware of he is mendacity,” she continued, choking up.
“In any other case, why cannot he take a look at me?” Heard stated. “I survived that man and I am right here, and I can take a look at him.”
On Monday, Heard testified Depp promised her he would by no means take a look at her once more after she filed for divorce in 2016.
Safety footage exhibits James Franco visiting Amber Heard at her Los Angeles residence
Footage proven to the court docket depicts actor James Franco visiting Heard at her Los Angeles residence the evening earlier than she filed for divorce from Depp, on Could 22, 2016, which was sooner or later after Depp allegedly threw a telephone at her head.
Within the footage, Franco, 44, might be seen resting his head on Heard’s shoulder, and he or she seems to position her head on his shoulder.
They then exit the elevator collectively.
iO Tillett Wright testifies for Amber Heard
Producer iO Tillett Wright testified after Heard completed her testimony by way of a pre-recorded video deposition.
“Alcohol would deliver out a really ugly aspect of him,” Wright stated in reference to Depp.
Wright stated Depp might be “extremely merciless and imply” when intoxicated, and would insult his followers.
“He would name [his fans] ‘remoras,'” he stated of Depp. “A fish that attaches itself to the hull of the ship and places holes in it and sinks it.”
Wright additionally recalled earlier conversations with Depp, the place the actor admitted to utilizing medicine in entrance of his two youngsters.
Allegedly, Depp instructed Wright he felt a deep “disgrace” concerning the impression his drug behavior had on his household.
Wright described Depp as “very open,” and stated Depp confided in him about his Oxycontin behavior, which Depp apparently described because the “hardest factor he ever tried to kick.”
The witness additionally stated Depp stated Heard was a nasty actress who would not have a profession after “her tits sag.”
“All she’s bought is her appears to be like,” Depp, based on Wright, stated about Heard.
“She has no expertise and when her tits begin to sag and her face will get wrinkly, no person goes to be excited by her for something, so she higher work out one other solution to survive,” Wright stated Depp instructed him within the yard of his home whereas Heard was inside crying.
Wright additionally stated he noticed Depp do numerous cocaine with Marilyn Manson as soon as.
Depp, Heard and Wright have been associates previous to the divorce in 2016.
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Amber Heard says photograph of Johnny Depp with two black eyes on their honeymoon is ‘Photoshopped’
Heard claimed on the stand {that a} photograph of Depp with bruises and swelling on his face, taken aboard the Orient Specific prepare in the course of the couple’s honeymoon in July 2015, was “Photoshopped.”
“I’ve seen this image earlier than, and he isn’t injured in it,” Heard says in reference to the photographs, which exhibits Depp with what seems to be two black eyes. “This one is Photoshopped.”
Video performed for court docket exhibits Johnny Depp threatening Amber Heard
Heard covertly filmed Depp storming across the kitchen, asking her, “You need to see loopy?”
The footage was proven to the court docket throughout Wright’s recorded deposition, and was filmed in February 2016.
“Did one thing occur to you this morning?” Heard asks Depp within the footage after he slams a cupboard door open.
The couple bicker within the footage till Depp comes closet to the digicam and appears to pour a glass of wine, earlier than saying, “You need to see loopy? I am going to offer you f—ing loopy.”
Johnny Depp allegedly threatened to ‘peel’ Amber Heard’s hair again in telephone name
Wright recalled a telephone dialog he had with Depp on Could 21, 2016, when Depp allegedly threatened to “peel” Heard’s hair again. Throughout the name, Wright stated Depp accused Wright and Heard of defecating on Depp’s pillow.
Depp grew to become additional angered, based on Wright, as a result of Wright and Heard discovered the thought humorous.
“You suppose I hit you?” Wright stated Depp stated after he stomped round. “What if I peel your f—ing hair again?”
Heard and Depp apparently fought after that, which Wright heard from the opposite finish of the telephone line, however then Wright stated Heard screamed and the telephone dropped. Wright stated he referred to as a number of associates of his to assist intervene after that.
Amber Heard’s former greatest buddy Raquel Pennington testifies
Raquel Pennington, Heard’s former greatest buddy, stated she is now not associates with the actress as she “wished to spend extra time with different individuals in my life and prioritise different relationships.”
Pennington then recalled an alleged bodily altercation with Heard over misplaced dishware one Thanksgiving, the place Pennington claimed Heard hit her cheek.
“We have been organising for Thanksgiving and we have been searching for possibly some glasses or dishware and we could not discover them wherever,” Pennington stated in her deposition, which, like Wright’s testimony, was pre-recorded and performed for the court docket.
“Heard lastly discovered them in a spot I believed I seemed and we began arguing about that. She thought I used to be trying onerous sufficient,” she stated.
“I believed that I pushed her,” Pennington added. “She [Heard] both pushed or hit me again.”
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The authorized case centres on a December 2018 opinion piece by Heard that appeared within the Washington Publish. The article by no means talked about Depp by identify, however his lawyer instructed jurors it was clear that Heard was referencing him.
Depp, as soon as amongst Hollywood’s greatest stars, stated Heard’s allegations value him “the whole lot”. A brand new Pirates of the Caribbean film was placed on maintain, and Depp was changed within the Implausible Beasts movie franchise, a Harry Potter spinoff.
Heard’s attorneys have argued that she instructed the reality and that her opinion was protected free speech underneath the US Structure’s First Modification.
Closing arguments are scheduled for Could 27, and Heard’s cross-examination concluded as we speak.
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 Court docket choose dominated that he had repeatedly assaulted Heard.
Depp’s legal professionals filed the case in Fairfax County, Virginia, as a result of the Washington Publish is printed there. The newspaper isn’t a defendant.
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