Actor Amber Heard testifies in defamation lawsuit against ex-husband Johnny Depp Tears poured on the stand of the witness on Thursday, claiming he sexually assaulted her with a bottle of wine during a fight in Australia, shortly after the pair were married. As Variety reports, the Aquaman actress recalled the incident, fighting in Australia during the filming of the fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film in March 2015 — Depp’s jealousy and her talk about his drug use. was driven by anxiety. She said Depp hit her repeatedly, throwing bottles at her and strangling her against a refrigerator, eventually leading her over a countertop and piercing her with a bottle. “I remember not wanting to move,” she said. He said that he remembered thinking, “Please, Lord,
“Hurd is defending himself in a $50 million defamation lawsuit in Fairfax, Virginia. Depp has sued his ex-wife Heard for writing an op-ed article for the Washington Post in which he claimed she was the victim of domestic abuse. Depp also argued that he made the allegations against her to further his career.
His lawsuit alleges that he lost out on the sixth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film and other film roles when Heard referred to himself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” A December 2018 op-ed, Variety reported. Heard began her testimony on Wednesday afternoon, recounting how she first met and fell in love with Depp. But she said she also found that Depp can be extremely jealous — especially when drunk or high — and fly into anger.
She told the jury about a flight on a private jet in May 2014, when she alleged that Depp slapped her and then slammed her to the floor. She also told the jury of other violent incidents in Tokyo and on Depp’s private island in the Bahamas. She said Depp can be verbally cruel, calling her a “whore,” a “slut” and a “fat ass,” Variety reported. Depp has denied assaulting Heard. He already told the jury about his version of events surrounding the Battle of Australia, alleging that he cut his fingers when a bottle was thrown at him. Heard had previously testified about these incidents during a trial in the United Kingdom, but the details of the alleged sexual assault were kept confidential in that proceeding. In his testimony on Thursday, Heard also said that his arms and legs were amputated by broken glass. She said, at one point, Depp held a broken bottle in his jaw, and threatened to “carve my face”.