WARNING: This article contains allegations of physical and sexual violence that some readers may find distressing.
Amber Heard took the witness stand in the libel case between her and Johnny Depp in Virginia.
Mr Depp sued Ms Heard for alleged defamation over an op-ed he wrote in 2018 for washington post. She doesn’t name him in the article, but she describes herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp has asked for 50 million dollars in damages.
Ms Heard has countersued Mr Depp, accusing him of allegedly orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her and describing her own lawsuit as a continuation of “abuse and harassment”. She has asked for $100 million in damages and immunity from her claims.
Mr. Depp was first heard as a witness, and Ms. Heard took the stand on May 4. Her testimony resumed on May 5.
Here are the most damning parts of his testimony so far:
Amber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp Sexually Assaulted Her With a Liquor Bottle
On Thursday (May 5), Ms Heard told the court that Mr Depp allegedly sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle during a fight in Australia in 2015.
Mrs. Heard was visibly distressed during her testimony. She said that Mr. Depp hit her in a way that she “sent [her] down to the ground”, and that when Mr Depp got up he threw a bottle at her. She said that at one point he had a broken bottle next to her face and neck, and told her he would “slice it up.” [her] face “.
Ms. Heard said her memories of the night came to her like “flashes.” Eventually, she said, Mr. Depp was throwing bottles in her direction and she could “feel glass breaking behind her.” [her]And a bottle that went over her head, which left her “terrified”.
She said that Mr. Depp ripped the nightgown off her chest and that the nightgown eventually ripped off completely, leaving her naked.
She alleged that Mr. Depp started hitting the wall next to her head and holding her by the neck. At some point, she said, Depp ended up “on top of [her]”, telling him that he had ruined [his] f******* life”.
“I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t get to him, I couldn’t get up,” he said. “I don’t know how that ended. I don’t know how, I don’t know what happened next.” Ms. Heard sobbed as she continued, “The next thing I remember, I was leaning back on the bar, which means my chest was up. I was looking at the blue light. My back is on the counter and I thought he was hitting me. I felt this pressure on my pubic bone. I thought he was hitting me. I could feel his arm moving and it felt like he was hitting me. But I could feel this pressure.”
Ms. Heard said that she remembered standing still, not wanting to move, looking around the room and seeing broken bottles and broken glass. “I remember I didn’t want to move because I didn’t know if it was broken, I didn’t know if the bottle that he had inside me was broken,” she said. “I couldn’t feel it. I felt no pain. I felt no pain. I did not feel anything. … I looked around and saw so much broken glass. … I just remember thinking ‘Please, God, please. I hope it’s not broken.’”
Amber Heard testifies that Johnny Depp penetrated her with a bottle
Amber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp Sexually Assaulted Her While Looking For His Cocaine
Ms Heard alleged on Wednesday (May 4) that Depp once sexually assaulted her while he was looking for his drugs, after accusing her of hiding his cocaine.
“He starts frisking me or says he’s frisking me, I don’t remember, but he ripped my dress, the strap, the top of my dress,” she told the court. “I had just dyed this thing myself, pink… he’s grabbing my breasts, he’s touching my thighs, he rips off my underwear and proceeds to do a cavity search. He said that he was looking for his drugs, his cocaine. His coke.”
Ms Heard added: “I was wondering how someone who didn’t do cocaine and was against it, that in itself was causing problems in our relationship. How could I hide, why would I hide the drugs from him? Was he implying that I was doing it, or something? It did not make sense. And he told me: ‘Let’s do a search in the cavity’. He just put his fingers inside me. And I stood there looking at the stupid light. Not know what to do. I stood there while he did that, he was twisting his fingers off of it.”
Amber Heard Accuses Depp Of Conducting A Cavity Search In His Search For Cocaine
Amber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp’s Jealousy Affected Her Career
Ms Heard had alleged that Mr Depp made her feel “dirty” about her acting career, and that her jealousy caused her to avoid roles involving sex scenes and revealing outfits.
“I couldn’t have a sex scene,” he said. “It didn’t happen all at once, of course, it was bit by bit.”
Ms Heard also alleged that Mr Depp accused her of having affairs with some of his co-stars and once subjected her to violent questioning over a sex scene with James’ co-star Franco.
“I was polite. I made sure to answer the minimum amount I could. I moved slowly. I was trying to be polite but not get involved, because there was no victory,” he said.
“And he kept going, he kept asking me. Eventually, she went from ‘Do you have something to tell me?’ to ‘Do you want to tell me how much you liked it? Tell me, did his tongue slip?’ She got worse and worse.
“He went from asking me how my kissing scene was or how the sex scene was to asking me what James Franco had done in the scene, to being very explicit about my body… he was saying really disgusting things about my body, about how I liked it, how i answered And then he just started making fun of me. ‘I know you liked him.’ He called me a hustler. He called me a whore.”
Ms Heard alleged that conversation turned into a physical altercation during which Mr Depp slapped her across the face and kicked her in the back with his boot.
Amber Heard Says Johnny Depp’s Jealousy Made Her Give Up Roles In Movies With Sex Scenes
Amber Heard says she thought Johnny Depp was going to kill her during a physical assault
Ms Heard has said that she thought Mr Depp was going to kill her during a fight.
“I don’t even remember feeling the pain, I just remember hearing the sound of Johnny’s voice,” he said from the witness stand.
“He got in my face and screamed over and over and over, sounding louder and more desperate each time, ‘I hate you, I hate you, I fucking hate you.’ *ing I hate you ‘over and over again. ‘F***ing I hate you.’
“Then he hit the back of my head, hitting it with his fist, and I don’t even remember feeling any pain, I could only hear myself screaming until I couldn’t hear myself anymore.
“I could hear him say that he was going to kill me and that he sounded like an animal in pain when he said he hated me.
“It sounded like he was about to cry, or something in his voice was different, it sounded different, it sounded like he was in agony, it was high-pitched and loud.”
She added: “I don’t know how many times, it just hit me over and over and over and I went very still, and I felt like my body was calm.
“And I thought, ‘This is how I die, he’s going to kill me now.’ He’s going to kill me and he won’t even know it.” I couldn’t breathe. I remember trying to scream and I couldn’t scream.”
Amber Heard tells court she thought Johnny Depp was going to kill her
Amber Heard recounts the first time Johnny Depp allegedly hit her
Ms Heard has shared several accounts of incidents during which she says Mr Depp was physically violent towards her.
Asked to recount the first time Depp allegedly hit her, Heard said: “It’s apparently so stupid, so insignificant. I will never forget. I change my life. “
She alleged that she and Depp were “sitting on the couch…talking…having a normal conversation.
“There were no fights, no arguments, nothing,” he said. “She was drinking and I didn’t realize it at the time, but I think she was using cocaine because there was a vial, a vial of cocaine on the table.”
She said that she asked Mr. Depp about a tattoo on his arm.
“And to me, they just looked like black marks,” he said. “I didn’t know what she was saying. It just looked like a messy, faded tattoo that was hard to read.”
Ms Heard said Mr Depp told her the tattoo said “wino”.
“I thought he was joking, because he didn’t seem like he was saying that at all. And I laughed. It was that simple. I just laughed because I thought she was joking. And she slapped me across the face,” she said.
“And I laughed. I laughed because I didn’t know what else to do. I thought, ‘This must be a joke. This has to be a joke. ‘ I didn’t know what was going on. I just stared at him, still laughing, thinking he was going to start laughing too, to tell me it was a joke, but he didn’t. He said, ‘Do you think that’s so funny? Do you think it’s funny, b****? Do you think you’re a funny b****?’ And he slapped me again. It was clear to me that it was no longer a joke.”
Amber Heard testifies that Johnny Depp allegedly hit her for the first time
Amber Heard Testifies About Johnny Depp’s Alleged Drug Use
Ms. Heard’s testimony has included several mentions of what she says was her drug and alcohol use.
“I didn’t realize at the time that I had already become very sensitive to these little changes, because my life changed depending on what he was taking,” she said during part of her testimony about alleged incidents dating back to 2014.
Amber Heard says she had to get used to ‘different versions’ of Depp based on alleged drug use
Ms Heard also said she got used to “different versions” of her then-husband.
She said that he had been “the love of [her] life”, but “it was also this other thing”.
And this other thing was [this] horrible, horrible thing that would come out and take over,” he said. “And you couldn’t see the Johnny that I loved underneath. It was this other thing.”