Statements Johnny Depp ensures that Amber Heard left "human fecal remains" in his bed
Courts Johnny Depp assures in the trial that Amber Heard was violent with him and that he assaulted him several times during their marriage
Image Amber Heard's strange strategy in the trial: she copies Johnny Depp's clothes from the day before
Actor
Johnny Depp
ended his
four days of oral testimony
in the trial against his ex-wife, also actress
Amber Heard,
on Monday with a statement in which he presented himself as a victim of domestic violence.
Seconds before the actor stepped down from the stand, his lawyer, Jessica Meyers, insisted that he repeat the words
"I am also a victim of domestic violence",
to which Depp responded with a crestfallen head with a solemn "yes, I am".
The 10 people who make up the jury of the trial, which began on April 11 in Fairfax (Virginia, USA), have listened for four days to the version of the protagonist of
Pirates of the Caribbean
about the tortuous five-year relationship he had with Heard.
In the litigation, Depp accuses his ex-wife of
defamation
for an article she published in
The Washington Post
in 2018, after their divorce, in which she claimed to have suffered "domestic abuse".
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During cross-examination on Monday, Heard's attorney, J. Benjamin Rottenborn, tried to refute that Heard's writing damaged
Depp's reputation.
To do this, he showed news clippings, mostly from tabloids, that were published before the writing of
The Washington Post
and that detailed
Depp's addiction problems,
portrayed as an actor in the doldrums, who was late for filming and maintained a troubled relationship with your partner.
"This is a pathetic attempt," Depp replied, assuring that behind some of those articles was
Heard's publicist team,
allegedly involved in a smear campaign after the couple's separation.
Depp, who came to court dressed in a suit and wearing sunglasses, was
cheered on several times by the public
present in the courtroom, mostly followers of the actor from places as remote as Australia, according to what they told the local press.
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Also present was Heard, whose statement is expected in the coming weeks.
The lawyers for both parties took advantage of the hearing to
play audio recordings
of the couple's discussions, something they did
on the recommendation of their therapist.
In one of the recordings, Depp is heard yelling:
"If I don't leave, this is going to be a bloodbath."
In another conversation, the actor asked Heard
if she was going to hit him "again"
and repeated that she was a "whore" with a "personality disorder."
Throughout the four days of the statement, Depp has also had to analyze
the text messages
he sent to his friend Paul Bettany, in which they both
joked about killing Heard
and having sex with her corpse, content that the actor described as
"irreverent and abstract humor".
Among other accusations, the actor claimed that during a 2015 fight Heard
hit him with a bottle of vodka,
causing him to lose a piece of his finger that had to be rebuilt.
He also indicated that the actress
put out a cigarette on her face
and even faked injuries with a handkerchief stained with red nail polish to simulate blood.
The actor asks his former partner
for 50 million dollars
in damages.
For his part, Heard has responded with a
counterclaim
in which he alleges that Depp has launched a smear campaign against him and claims 100 million.
It is the first time that the two celebrities have faced each other in court: in the trial held in 2020 in London, and which Depp lost, the actress attended as a witness, since the accusation was against the British newspaper
The Sun
for an article calling the actor a "women's aggressor".
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