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Yesterday was day 14 of the ongoing libel case brought against Amber Heard by Johnny Depp.
Day 13 saw Depp’s team call their final witnesses before Heard’s former psychologist took to the stand as her first witness.
Heard is up against the tide of public opinion, in part because Depp testified first, thereby shaping the narrative right from the start.
Well, she took to the stand for the first time yesterday and her testimony was explosive, to say the least.
A few basics via Sky News:
Beginning her testimony, she told the jury that the US trial has been “the most painful and difficult thing I’ve gone through” after sitting through days of Depp and other previous witnesses talking “about our lives”…
Heard told the court Depp first hit her in 2013, slapping her three times in an incident she says ‘changed my life’.
Heard also claimed that Depp once held his dog out of a moving car window.
The actress claimed the actor would vomit and lose control of his bodily functions due to drinking and drug use.
A few of those moments can be seen in this summary:
In one instance, Heard alleges that Depp threatened to kill her while the two were in the Bahamas.
Here’s NewsAU:
“He slams me up by my neck and holds me there for a second and tells me that he could f***ing kill me and that I was an embarrassment,” she said…
His daughter, Lily-Ross Depp, grew upset with her dad’s boozy behaviour, Heard said, and Depp accused her of telling his kids about his addiction problems before he allegedly attacked her.
Heard left the yacht via helicopter with his daughter, who was crying to her, according to the testimony.
During this part of Heard’s testimony, Depp could be seen shaking his head and saying “wow”.
She also alleges that Depp once ‘cavity searched’ her looking for cocaine he thought she was hiding:
Depp would drink and take drugs to the point where he lost control of his bowels, according to Heard.
“I cleaned up after him,” she testified. “This man lost control of his bowels and I cleaned up after him… He passed out in his own sick … and then he’d walk around saying he didn’t have a problem,” Heard testified.
Heard says that nobody was honest enough to confront Depp and tell him he had a problem.
Describing her time with Depp as “a never-ending fight”, Heard detailed his drug use:
Once, while he was drunk and on cocaine, he tried to burn a painting made by a former partner of Heard with a lighter, the actress said.
She added of his drug use: “Johnny on speed is very different from Johnny on opiates. And Johnny on opiates (is) very different from Johnny on Adderall, and Cocaine Johnny, which is very different from Quaaludes Johnny.”
She also claimed that Depp would sob and beg for forgiveness after hitting her.
You can read more from Heard’s testimony here.
She will return to the stand later today.
