Trial Amber Heard claims to have suffered "physical violence and assault" since her first date with Johnny Depp
Actress
Amber Heard
said Thursday that her ex-husband, fellow actor
Johnny Depp,
slapped her during a plane ride because he was jealous of some scenes she shot with
James Franco
for the movie "The Adderall Diaries."
According to Heard during his second day of testimony before the courts of Fairfax (Virginia, USA), Depp attacked her
on a private plane
flying from Boston to Los Angeles, and in which the actor insistently asked about his relationship with Franco .
"He called me a whore,
" Heard said of the incident, which allegedly took place in 2014 in front of other people on her team.
The actress then got up from her seat and stopped responding to Depp, after which he hit her, according to her testimony.
"It didn't hurt,
I was just ashamed that he did that in front of others,"
the actress explained.
Heard, 36, intervened for
more than five hours
in which he reviewed the most bizarre moments of his relationship with Depp, 58, who was also in the room and, although he avoided eye contact with his ex-partner, sometimes he he twisted in his seat.
The actress took advantage of her turn on the stand to present graphic and sound documents of her accusations, such as, for example, an audio supposedly recorded on the same flight in which Depp hit her and in which the protagonist of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is heard
howl without apparent sense
.
Heard indicated that this moment occurred after the actor locked himself in the bathroom to get high.
Throughout her statement, both on Thursday and Wednesday, Heard described Depp as
a violent man, unable to control his aggressiveness
and with serious drug addiction problems.
In fact, the actress showed a series of photographs taken at different times, in which Depp appears lying on the floor of a hotel and in similar circumstances, apparently under the influence of drugs.
"There was no one to back me up, so I
started taking photos,"
justified Heard, who even projected an image of his broken bed, allegedly after a violent argument.
Towards the end of his speech, the actress's lawyer,
Elaine Bredehoft,
asked Heard to clarify if Depp penetrated her with a glass bottle.
"I can't believe I have to do it," she said before pointing out that, during her stay in Australia in 2015, the actor
introduced a bottle several times until her vagina began to bleed.
From that same trip to Australia there is a reverse accusation.
Last week, Depp said that Heard attacked him with a bottle of vodka for which he
lost a piece of his finger
that had to be rebuilt, something that the actress denied since, according to her, the injury was caused by a fit of rage in in which the actor hit his hand against various objects, including his mobile phone.
Heard's defense delivered photographs showing the damage they caused in the mansion where they were staying in Australia, with pieces of glass and blood on the floor, as detailed by other witnesses who spoke previously at the trial.
In the lawsuit, Depp accuses her of defamation for an article she published in
The Washington Post
in 2018, after her divorce, in which she claimed to have suffered "domestic abuse."
The actor asks his ex-partner for 50 million dollars in damages. For his part, Heard has responded with a
counterclaim
in which he alleges that Depp has promoted 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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