Amber Heard's lawyers accuse Johnny Depp of verbal, physical and sexual assault against his ex-wife

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's lawyers

affirmed this Tuesday that the actress

during her marriage to

converted according to them into a

with attacks of "anger" that ended in

The two

in a trial near Washington that stems from a column published in the

in 2018, in which Heard described himself as a

harassed by society after denouncing Depp for two years .

before.

Heard "loved the side of Johnny that we see in the movies,

he's the man she fell in love with," her attorney Elaine Bredehoft told jurors.

"But unfortunately the monster appeared and this monster appeared

she added, mentioning alcohol cocktails, medications, cocaine, ecstasy and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Amber Heard, in the same room.GTRES

Depp had "an enormous rage" in him that transformed him into a "demon" and "it was during these episodes of rage that

Heard, Bredehoft explained.

He recounted several scenes of violence, especially in March 2015 in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth installment of

Make-up

The actress never took off her

on her face, said the lawyer, who plans to show the jury

of Heard with "bruises, split lips, hair ripped out."

In her op-ed, the 35-year-old actress does not name Depp, 58, whom

A year later she filed for a

claiming the actor had beaten her.

She but

as part of her divorce, which was finalized in 2017.

Following the column's publication in the newspaper, Depp, who denies hitting her, filed a defamation lawsuit against Heard,

in damages.

The actress, in turn, filed a defamation lawsuit in which

The actor's lawyer, Benjamin Chew, denounced on the contrary that "Amber Heard forever changed

and you will hear him tell what a terrible impact this had on his life," he said, addressing the jury.

According to him, Heard accused her husband of violence in 2016 to

And two years later, in the wake of "the Me Too movement" that denounced sexual violence and "just before the premiere of the movie

", in which he participated, Heard "chose to remind the world of these

poisonous

in a newspaper world famous," he said.

Depp's sister

, Christi Dembrowski, described on the stand a

with a "always troubled" young woman who "greatly exaggerated" her husband's drug and alcohol problems and called him a

"Dior is class and style, and you have no style," she told him, according to her, on one occasion, when they were talking about an advertising contract with this brand.

The actor filed the lawsuit in the state of Virginia, where the

is printed and where the legal framework is

than in California, where the two actors reside.

The two ex-spouses attend the trial,

The witness list is worthy of Hollywood movies, with billionaire

actors

and actress

This trial is reminiscent of the one held in 2020 in London, when the

actor sued the publisher of

newspaper for an article that presented him as a violent husband.

Called as a witness, her ex-wife had recounted a dozen attacks committed, according to her, by her husband.

Depp admits

but insists that he never hit a woman.

He is supported by his former partners

The British court ruled in favor of

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

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