The defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is drawing to a detailed and searching again on the final six weeks of testimony and witness recounts have proven that this trial has been stuffed with ups and downs.
Depp sued his ex-wife Heard for $50 million after she wrote an opinion piece with The Washington Submit in 2018 claiming to be a sufferer of home abuse. The article didn't identify Depp particularly, however Depp and his authorized workforce argued that it was clearly about him and their turbulent relationship. Heard countersued Depp for $100 million for nuisance.
The trial has been stuffed with emotional testimonies, ugly retellings of violent incidents, accusations from each events of alleged home abuse, numerous objections from the attorneys representing the actors, and a few humorous moments that viewers shortly took viral.
Whereas closing arguments are anticipated on Friday morning, listed here are the moments from the six-week-long trial that captivated the web.
Johnny Depp Smirks After Being Referred to as "Boring, Outdated"
One of many first clips to go viral on social media of the trial, which came about in Fairfax, Virginia, was throughout the testimony of Heard's former private assistant, Kate James.
In James' video deposition, she said that Heard advised her she did not take pleasure in hanging out together with her husband and his buddies as a result of they had been "boring and all outdated males taking part in guitars and it wasn't fascinating to her."
Her remark elicited a smile from Depp, 58, and the clip from the courtroom amassed tens of millions of views on Tiktok after being posted by a consumer who goes by the username @glizilion.
Johnny Depp's Private Testimony
Many moments from Depp's private testimony caught the web's consideration. Depp took the stand early on within the trial, testifying that he by no means as soon as hit Heard.
"Nothing of the sort had ever occurred," Depp advised the jury in late April. "Although [in] the connection there have been arguments and issues of that nature...however by no means did I, myself, attain the purpose of putting Miss Heard in any means. Nor have I ever struck any lady in my life."
"I'm obsessive about the reality," he continued. "Right now is...truly the primary alternative that I have been in a position to discuss this case in full."
One broadly disputed incident additionally concerned an harm wherein Depp misplaced the tip of his finger. Depp claimed that Heard threw a glass vodka bottle at him which shattered, ensuing within the injured hand, whereas Heard testified Depp did it to himself throughout a battle.
Depp admitted that he initially lied to medical professionals about what occurred. "I did not need to get her in hassle. I attempted to only maintain issues as copacetic and as simple as potential for everybody," he mentioned within the Virginia courtroom. "I didn't need to put her identify in that blend."
Feces Incident
One second from his testimony went viral although, as customers started sharing clips of Depp accusing Heard of defecating on his mattress.
The hashtag, "Amber Turd" and "#MePoo" had been trending on Twitter simply hours after his testimony.
@hikylem Reply to @rinabands954 he *did* chortle #johnnydepp#amberheard#poop#yorkie#amberturd#💩#aquaman#disney#MoveWithTommy
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Amber Heard: "I Hit You" Audio
A video of the Pirates of the Caribbean actor reacting to audio performed in court docket wherein Heard admits to hitting him went viral after being shared by Twitter consumer @johnnyhellodepp.
Johnny Depp’s response to the court docket lastly getting to listen to the audio tape wherein Amber Heard admits to abusing him. #JusticeforJohnnyDepppic.twitter.com/kdvII6mlss
— Mary (@johnnyhellodepp) April 20, 2022
"I am sorry. I hit you want this, however I didn't punch you. I didn't f**king deck you. I f**king was hitting you. I do not know what the movement of my precise hand was. However you are positive. I didn't damage you," Heard mentioned within the video.
Depp's solemn expression whereas the audio performed amassed virtually 12 million views.
"Objection, Your Honor, Rumour"
The legal professionals for each actors spent a big period of time throughout the trial objecting to 1 one other's inquiries to witnesses, and several other of the moments had the courtroom unable to carry of their laughter.
Heard's lawyer, co-counsel Adam Nadelhaft, questioned Depp's home supervisor Ben King on April 25 and interrupted his personal line of questioning, citing a rumour objection.
Choose Penney Azcarate replied, "However you requested the query."
Depp and his lawyer appeared to share fun within the clip that has been shared quite a few instances.
This is perhaps the perfect clip of the 12 months. Amber Heard lawyer objecting his personal query💀#JusticeForJohhnyDepp#AmberHeardIsAnAbuserpic.twitter.com/kGeOT6sFv3
— Aemon (@ElDiosGalleta) April 25, 2022
In one other occasion, TikTok consumer @SaraLianneX shared a compilation of Heard's legal professionals' rumour objections and Depp's reactions in a video that had amassed greater than 18 million views on the time of writing. Within the video, Depp joked a number of instances in regards to the rumour objection and made the court docket chortle.
However Heard's legal professionals weren't the one ones with a large number of objections. A video of Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez—who has developed a small fanbase of her personal all through the trial—objecting to Heard's workforce throughout the redirect of Heard went viral.
Posted on TikTok by consumer @mculokii, the almost two-minute video confirmed Vasquez placing stress on Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, as she struggles to ask inquiries to her consumer.
@mculokii the redirect was brutal 🔥🔥 amber heard may barely say something throughout the redirect 😂 #justiceforjohnnydepp#johnnydepp#camillevasquez
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At one level, Bredehoft pauses and says, "I am making an attempt, I am making an attempt."
Amber Heard Describes First Time Johnny Depp Hit Her
The Aquaman actress recalled the primary time Depp hit her on her first day on the witness stand, gaining a notable social media response.
Heard recalled asking Depp as soon as what his tattoo meant. Depp advised her the tattoo mentioned "Wino." Heard mentioned she began laughing then, and Depp slapped her within the face. She continued to chortle as a result of she thought the slap was a joke, however he reportedly hit her once more.
"You suppose it is so humorous? You suppose it is humorous, b**ch?" Heard mentioned that Depp advised her.
Heard's supporters started flooding social media as #IstandWithAmberHeard, one tweeting a video from the testimony and writing, "You have heard his facet. Now take heed to her communicate."
One other fan wrote on Twitter, "I am already decreased to tears whereas she's up there defending herself, reliving essentially the most traumatic instances of her previous life from 6-10 years in the past whereas the world watches on. She's the voice for the unvoiced survivors all over the place. Actually inspirational."
Others weren't so sympathetic to her emotional testimony, some saying that her testimony reminded them of Kristin Stewart's efficiency in Twilight.
TikTok consumer @beeyoung92 produced a comparability video that features clips of Heard within the trial and Bella Swan (Stewart) in Twilight. The caption onscreen reads: "I believed I would seen these scenes earlier than right now's trial."
Johnny Depp and Kate Moss
Throughout Heard's testimony, she recalled an incident wherein Depp allegedly went to hit her sister, Whitney Henriquez. When recalling the battle on the witness stand, Heard mentioned, "I simply immediately consider Kate Moss and the steps, and I swung at him. In all my relationships so far, I hadn't [delivered] a blow. For the primary time, I hit him sq. within the face."
After she dropped the supermodel's identify, Depp and his lawyer Benjamin Chew appeared to rejoice, as Chew fist-bumped the air. Many questioned the importance of that element, and several other authorized consultants defined that Heard inadvertently opened the door for Depp's workforce to carry Moss in as a witness to testify in opposition to the rumor.
Depp and Moss dated from 1994 to 1997, and rumors have circulated for a number of years that Depp pushed the supermodel down the steps throughout their relationship.
On Could 25, Moss appeared in court docket by video deposition and denied that Depp ever pushed her down any stairs, saying, "No, he by no means pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs."
After testifying, video clips of Depp showing to smile at his former girlfriend via the display screen had been broadly shared.
johnny smiling at kate moss guys.
— alex (@jdeppfxnn) Could 25, 2022
im sobbing. pic.twitter.com/YJsJpZoy7y
Afterward the identical day, Depp testified that Heard was the one who took his story of serving to Moss after she fell down a set of slippery stairs whereas on trip in Jamaica, and "turned it ugly in her thoughts."
"That is the entire story," the actor mentioned, "However then the rumor of it, I had by no means heard a rumor of that earlier than Miss Heard grabbed maintain of it. It is like that, I am sorry."
Amber Heard Says Individuals Have Been Threatening Her And Her Child
Heard ended the trial's testimonies on Thursday by asking Depp to go away her alone, saying that due to the trial, she was "harassed, humiliated, threatened each single day."
"Even simply strolling into this courtroom, sitting right here in entrance of the world," Heard mentioned, her voice emotional. "Having the worst components of my life, issues I've lived via, used to humiliate me. Individuals need to kill me.
"Individuals need to put my child within the microwave, and so they inform me that," she continued. "Johnny...promised me that if I ever left him, he'd make me consider him each single day that I reside."
Heard denied she was snickering on the stand, saying, "I am not sitting on this courtroom laughing, smiling and making snide jokes. I am not. That is horrible. That is painful, and that is humiliating for any human being to undergo. Maybe it is simple to overlook that, however I am a human being."
She mentioned that on the finish of all this, she simply desires "Johnny to go away [her] alone," and hopes that she is going to be capable of regain her voice following the trial.
"Johnny has taken sufficient of my voice," she mentioned. "I've the suitable to inform my story, I've the suitable to say what occurred to me, I've the suitable to my voice and my identify. He took it lengthy sufficient."
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