Amber Heard took the witness stand on Thursday for the second day in her protection within the defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp, her ex-husband.
A lot of the testimony on Thursday was Heard's recollection of the couple's engagement, wedding ceremony and abuse that passed off through the relationship.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million for defamation involving a 2018 piece Heard wrote for The Washington Submit, titled "I spoke up towards sexual violence—and confronted our tradition's wrath. That has to vary." Whereas the article didn't explicitly identify Depp, she insinuated that she had suffered home abuse whereas married to him.
The high-profile trial, happening in Fairfax, Virginia, has lasted 4 weeks to date, and shutting arguments are anticipated to happen Could 27.
Listed below are 5 notable moments from day two of Heard's testimony:
Heard Says Her Father Did Medication With Depp at Pair's Engagement Get together
Heard walked via the moments of Depp's marriage proposal to her, recalling how he obtained down on one knee once they had been at a resort in London and stated, "I would like you to be my woman eternally, my girl, my woman. Say sure to me."
She then recalled her and Depp's massive engagement get together with their family and friends in 2014.
She stated that they walked into the get together collectively, "we took some photos and stated just a few hellos, after which Johnny disappeared upstairs."
Heard testified that he was upstairs for practically all the get together, and "he solely got here down on the finish after we had been leaving, and got here down as soon as as a result of he was on the time sharing medication with my dad."
Depp's legal professionals referred to as an objection of hypothesis, however Heard rapidly stated, "I used to be there. I watched it. My dad on the similar time was hooked on the identical factor Johnny was."
The actor added, "My dad truly left with Johnny's safety," claiming that her father and Depp's safety went out and got here again with medication, "and the whole lot was OK."
"Shortly after that," Heard stated, "I attempted to get Johnny to return downstairs, and he simply snapped at me, simply verbally instructed me to close the f*** up."
Heard Testified Depp Was 'Mad' at Her for Working With James Franco
Heard recalled one of many bigger fights that she and Depp had, stating that it was due to a movie she was going to be in with co-star James Franco.
In Could 2014, she was filming "The Adderall Diaries" in New York whereas Depp filmed "Black Mass" in Boston. They met up on a airplane in Boston, through which she relayed that Depp "was mad at me for taking the job with James Franco."
"He hated James Franco and was already accusing me of form of secretly having a factor with him previously since we had executed Pineapple Categorical collectively," she stated.
Whereas flying collectively from Boston to Los Angeles, Heard stated, Depp was asking her questions earlier than getting extra aggressive together with her. She stated she knew he was drunk as a result of "his breath reeked of weed and alcohol and smelled so dangerous."
"He went from asking me about how my kissing or intercourse scene went to what James Franco had executed within the scene to being express about my physique, saying disgusting issues about my physique and that I preferred it," she testified.
Heard stated Depp slapped her within the face and threw utensils and ice cubes at her. When she obtained as much as stroll away, she said that she felt Depp kick her within the again, knocking her to the bottom.
"I felt this boot and I believed, 'did he simply kick me?'" she testified. "Nobody stated something, nobody did something. You could possibly hear a pin drop."
Heard Claims Depp Sexually Violated Her With Glass Bottle
Heard was extraordinarily emotional on the witness stand whereas recalling a very bodily altercation between her and Depp whereas in Australia throughout Depp's filming of the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Heard recalled Depp ingesting and taking the psychoactive drug MDMA, generally often called esctasy or molly, earlier than accusing her of getting affairs with a number of of her co-stars, calling her names and placing a damaged bottle to her neck.
She stated that he held her by the neck towards a wall and ripped her nightgown off, after which remembered being held down on the bar. When retelling the incident, Heard started to hyperventilate.
Via tears, Heard stated, "My again was on the countertop and I believed he was punching me."
"I bear in mind taking a look at all of the damaged bottles and damaged glass and I bear in mind simply not wanting to maneuver as a result of I did not know if it was damaged, and I did not know if the bottle that he had inside me was damaged. I did not really feel it, I did not really feel ache, I did not do something," she testified.
In a while, she stated, "I spotted that I may very well be damage as a result of I used to be bleeding however I satisfied myself it wasn't damaged and the bottle wasn't damaged or else it will be loads worse. And the discomfort I used to be feeling afterwards simply paled compared to how scared and shocked I used to be. I used to be scared, I simply married this man."
Depp Laughs Once more When Heard Describes Him Peeing on the Flooring
Depp appeared to chuckle when Heard described the morning after the incident in Australia, notably the accusation that the actor took his penis out and urinated on the ground.
Heard claimed that within the aftermath of the altercation with the glass bottle, safety was referred to as to the home.
"Johnny took his penis out of his pants and began attempting to pee or peeing outdoors of the home," she stated.
"That is in entrance of safety, they usually form of identical to checked out one another and checked out him and form of, not laughed, however form of half, , performed it off and corralled him," Heard testified. "It was the way it appeared. It appeared like corralling a wild animal again into the home with, , together with his penis out of his pants."
On the point out of that story, Depp appeared to snicker together with his lawyer.
In April, Depp's private bodyguard testified within the trial and was requested about the identical incident.
The bodyguard, Malcolm Connolly, stated "no" when requested if Depp had been attempting to urinate on the ground. Heard's lawyer requested once more, "Mr. Depp had his penis out of his pants, did not he?"
Connolly responded, "I feel I'd bear in mind if I would seen Mr. Depp's penis."
Depp dropped his head then and commenced laughing, and the second went viral on social media.
Heard Admits Punching Depp in Protection of Her Sister
Towards the tip of her protection Thursday, Heard testified that she recalled an incident in a penthouse together with her sister, Whitney.
She recalled discovering Depp's iPad and seeing textual content messages between him and a girl he used to see. Heard said she confronted him, they usually started screaming at each other.
Heard stated that Depp was ingesting a Purple Bull and screaming at her, after which he threw the can at her whereas she stood on the mezzanine degree.
She stated that she referred to as Depp a "p**sy," which angered him. Depp allegedly ran up the steps to the place Heard was together with her sister, and Heard testified that they'd a battle through which Depp pulled at her hair.
She then stated that her sister Whitney tried to get in between them. "Johnny swings at her and I simply see my little sister together with her again to the staircase, and Johnny swings at her and I do not even wait," she testified.
"I swung at him. In all of my relationship to this point with Johnny, I hadn't landed a blow and I, for the primary time, truly hit him sq. within the face. He did not push my sister down the steps," she stated. Heard added that she and her sister went and locked themselves away afterward.
The testimony raised questions, nonetheless, as Heard's telling of the can of Purple Bull appeared to contradict what Travis McGivern, considered one of Depp's safety guards, stated when he recalled the incident, as he claimed it was Heard who threw the Purple Bull can at Depp.
The trial is adjourned till Could 16.
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