Depp and Heard met in 2009 on a filming and got married in 2015. Two years later, they divorced.
Heard says that the problems in the relationship began in 2012. She believes that Depp drank and took drugs and that he was violent and jealous.
- The most painful and difficult I have ever had to go through.
It's awful to sit here week after week and go through everything again, Heard says in the courtroom.
The actress began to cry when she was about to recapitulate violent events from their relationship in the courtroom.
She reported that Johnny Depp had at one point committed sexual abuse against her with a glass bottle.
Johnny Depp has previously said during the trial that he has never been violent towards Heard.
Amber Heard also claims that Johnny Depp accused her of having business with her male opponents, including Billy Bob Thornton, Eddie Redmayne and James Franco.
Witnessed PTSD
Dawn Hughes, a psychologist hired by Amber Heard's defense attorneys, testified Tuesday that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a direct result of violence in a close relationship.
Hughes' testimony contradicts what another doctor, hired by Depp's team, concluded: Heard does not suffer from PTSD.
According to the AP, Hughes said that she did not express pure facts, but that Amber Heard's story is in line with how victims of violence in close relationships usually experience the situation.
The background to the trial is that Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for 50 million dollars for a column she wrote in the Washington Post 2018. There she describes herself as "a public person who has experienced violence in a close relationship", writes AFP.
Heard did not mention Depp's name in the article published in the Washington Post.
But according to his lawyers, his career was over with the publication.
Amber Heard, in turn, is demanding $ 100 million for the "extensive physical violence and abuse" she claims Johnny Depp subjected her to.