Amber Heard continued her explosive counter-argument to Johnny Depp’s declare of defamation, telling jurors her former husband was surrounded by safety guards and assistants who enabled him to keep away from the implications of his drug and alcohol points.
The courtroom was proven images of Depp handed out, which Heard mentioned she beginning taking in 2013 as a result of he would black out and later deny what had taken place when he was intoxicated.
“He wouldn’t bear in mind, or he would deny it. There was nobody to again me up – simply his staff versus my phrase,” Heard mentioned.
Heard later testified a couple of journey to London in 2013, the place she and Depp have been filming films, when Depp disappeared and got here house so intoxicated that he was carried into their rented house “like a child” by a safety guard.
Heard testified: “His assistants and different safety guards have been shaking their heads. I bear in mind considering: certainly that is it. He was very sick for at the very least two days. I felt at that juncture very inspired that we have been on the identical web page … that he had hit all-time low.
“I understood sufficient about dependancy to know you must hit all-time low, have some consequence to get higher.”
Depp, she added, received briefly sober. “I assumed we have been on an excellent path to sobriety,” she mentioned.
“I felt very inspired that everyone and I have been on the identical web page, and I felt inspired that we have been in a brand new chapter,” Heard added.
However Depp quickly relapsed, she mentioned. The courtroom was advised that Depp and Heard’s father ran out of medicine on the couple’s engagement celebration, and her father left the celebration with Depp’s safety group to choose up extra. Heard has beforehand testified about her father’s heroin dependancy.
Heard testified that she had insisted on pre-nuptial settlement. “I wished to remove any doubt in his thoughts and in different folks’s minds. So I introduced it as much as him and introduced it as much as my therapist,” she mentioned.
However Depp, she mentioned, had dominated it out. “He accused me of getting one foot out,” Heard mentioned, and advised her “the one approach out of that is loss of life”.
Heard mentioned that Depp would change into offended if any of her films have been scripted with intercourse scenes. She mentioned: “Each time I received a script, it was what sort of, you understand, how I used to be dressing? … Did I’ve a intercourse scene?”
Heard mentioned she compensated for his jealousy by declining extra sexually provocative components or petitioning wardrobe managers to permit her to decorate extra conservatively.
“I needed to eggshell or tiptoe round him once I had any type of scene,” Heard mentioned of the battle.
Depp, she mentioned, hated that she labored with James Franco in The Adderall Diaries and had kicked her within the again on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles.
“He known as me a slut” for the scenes, Heard mentioned, including how he accused her of liking filming the scenes.
“He was being actually express about my physique, about how I preferred it. He known as me go-getting, a slut. He requested if I used to be moist, why I wasn’t him … did James do that and that to me?”
The jury heard Depp “howling like an animal” in an audio recording recorded by Heard on the flight. Depp, Heard mentioned, had locked himself within the toilet and handed out.
After the Met Gala in New York, Heard testified, Depp had thrown a bottle at her. She advised the courtroom: “He shoved me down on the couch and sooner or later he simply whacked me within the face. I suspected I had a damaged nostril. I bear in mind it being swollen, discolored and crimson.”
Heard testified {that a} group of detox medical doctors was introduced into assist Depp after the LA-Boston flight. The medical doctors elected to maintain Depp on painkillers so he might end filming, she mentioned. However Depp, Heard mentioned, was taking “about double” the variety of opiate painkillers he advised his medical doctors he was taking. Depp, Heard mentioned, would “nod out” or go to sleep in mid-sentence.
“He’d been mendacity to them so he might get extra-high earlier than he needed to detox,” Heard testified.
“I didn’t perceive what was occurring,” Heard mentioned. “I hadn’t seen something like this. I used to be attempting to determine what occurred.”
In 2014, Heard mentioned she began attending day by day conferences of Alcoholics Nameless, a 12-step group for members of the family of individuals with dependancy.
Ultimately, Heard mentioned, Depp agreed to a detox programme below the care of a group at his house in Bahamas. However the course of didn’t go easily, she mentioned.
“He slapped me throughout the face, however he did so whereas he was crying,” Heard mentioned. “I shouldn’t have been there. I don’t know the way to detox somebody. I don’t know why the medical doctors and nurses wished me to be there. It was hell.”
The courtroom is out on Friday and all of subsequent week, leaving jurors 10 days to mull Heard’s testimony earlier than Depp’s counsel can mount a cross-examination.