Amber Heard sobbed as she recounted a fight in Australia with Johnny Depp during which she claims that he sexually assaulted her.
The defamation trial between Mr Depp and Ms Heard began on 11 April in Fairfax, Virginia following Mr Depp’s lawsuit against his ex-wife in March 2019. Mr Depp is arguing that she defamed him in a December 2018 op-ed published in The Washington Post titled “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change”.
Of the March 2015 incident in Australia, Ms Heard said Mr Depp had lost “a tonne of weight, so I knew something was up”.
“The first night… when he shoved me, I went skidding across the floors … it was so easy for him to throw me around like that,” she said.
She claimed that Mr Depp grabbed her neck and smashed her head against a wall. Ms Heard said she slept behind a “barricaded” door and that she took sleeping pills to fall asleep. When she awoke, she said Mr Depp was “still up”.
Ms Heard said they had an argument about drugs, including MDMA. “He took a handful of pills… either eight or 10 pills… of MDMA,” she said.
She added that Mr Depp accused her of not liking his sister and that he was upset about actors she had worked with, including Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl.
By March 2015, Ms Heard said she had heard Mr Depp use the phrase “the only way out of this is death”, referring to their relationship, about 25 times.
In a subsequent fight, Ms Heard said Mr Depp slammed her “hard” against the walls, calling her a “whore, slut, fat ass”.
She added that he would drink in front of her “as a show of force”. She claimed that Mr Depp said that others had warned him about her and that “nobody” liked her.
She said she shoved him off of her, and that he responded “you wanna go, little girl?” and proceeded to shove her into a games table and that he kept “whacking” her face.
Ms Heard testified that Mr Depp “taunted” her to take a bottle from him. She said she eventually grabbed it and “smashed it on the floor”, which “really set him off” and that he “backhanded” her and threw another bottle at her.
She added that he later had a “broken bottle” against her face, saying that he would “carve” it up.
Ms Heard said she didn’t remember if she threw anything in Mr Depp’s direction, but that she doesn’t think she did.
“He was throwing these bottles, one after the other, and I felt glass breaking behind me,” she said, adding that he ripped off her nightgown.
“He’s screaming at me that he hates me and that I ruined his life,” Ms Heard said. “I f***ing hate you, you ruined my f***ing life,” she quoted him as yelling.
Ms Heard said Mr Depp’s eyes went “black” and that she “couldn’t see him anymore”.
“I’ve never been so scared in my entire life,” she added. Ms Heard said Mr Depp was on top of her and that she tried to tell him that he was “really hurting me”.
“I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t get through to him, I couldn’t get up… I don’t know what happened next,” Ms Heard said, claiming he went on to sexually assault her.
“I could feel this pressure on my pubic bone,” she added, saying that it “looked like” Mr Depp was “punching” her, adding that there were “broken bottles, broken glass” all over the room.
“I couldn’t feel it, I couldn’t feel pain,” she added, saying that she remember thinking “please God, I hope it’s not broken”.
“I don’t know how that ended,” Ms Heard said, adding that she remembers being in the bathroom “retching” and that she “lost control of my bladder”.
“There was blood on the floor,” she said, adding that she took sleeping pills to fall asleep that night.
When she woke up the next morning, she said it “became clear that he was still up, he hadn’t gone to sleep”.
Ms Heard said she saw “dried blood” on the walls. “I saw what looked like my…
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