Johnny Depp’s lawyer questions Amber Heard’s abuse claims as cross-examination in libel trial continues

WARNING: This story incorporates particulars of intimate accomplice violence.

Legal professionals for Johnny Depp questioned the truthfulness of his ex-wife Amber Heard’s declare that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle as Heard was cross-examined Tuesday after her testimony in Depp’s libel go well with in opposition to her.

Depp is suing Heard in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court docket over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote within the Washington Publish describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.”

His attorneys say he was defamed by the article although it by no means talked about his title. The trial is now in its fifth week.

Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, questioned Heard about quite a lot of incidents wherein she says she was assaulted by Depp.

Questioning was significantly intense over a March 2015 battle the couple had in Australia, shortly after they have been married, whereas Depp was capturing a fifth movie within the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

It was throughout that battle that Heard says she was sexually assaulted. Depp, alternatively, says he was the sufferer, and that he misplaced the tip of his center finger when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.

Vasquez questioned why Heard by no means sought medical consideration, although she stated her ft have been reduce by damaged glass and she or he was bleeding after the assault.

“You are the one who assaulted somebody with a bottle in Australia, is not that proper, Ms. Heard?” Vasquez requested.

“I did not assault Johnny in Australia. I did not assault Johnny ever,” Heard responded.

Vasquez then questioned why Heard wrote a sequence of affection notes to Depp within the months after she was assaulted.

Heard has stated she believed Depp had hit all-time low after the Australia battle and was dedicated to sobriety. She has stated many of the assaults occurred whereas Depp was underneath the affect of medication or alcohol.

“When issues have been good, they have been actually good,” she stated.

Court docket sees 2016 deposition

The jury additionally noticed a recording of a deposition Heard gave in 2016 in connection along with her divorce wherein she appeared to inadvertently admit that she had tipped off the movie star information outlet TMZ about facets of her preliminary divorce proceedings.

Heard testified to the jury that she was shocked when paparazzi swarmed her courthouse look searching for a short lived restraining order and that she tried to keep away from publicity as a lot as potential.

Through the 2016 deposition, although, Heard put her arms to her lips as if she mistakenly blurted one thing out after she stated she wished Depp to study of the divorce submitting “from another supply apart from TMZ, which was alerted …”

“You slipped up there, did not you, Ms. Heard?” Vasquez requested.

“That is not what I am speaking about,” Heard responded.

Throughout redirect examination, Heard, stated she “requested my group to file in probably the most discreet approach, actually to place it underneath a stack of papers and file it on the finish of the day so it form of had extra of a shot of being missed by the paparazzi and by TMZ.”

The redirect questioning of Heard lasted only some minutes, as Depp’s attorneys objected to just about each query that Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, tried to ask.

There was additionally testimony about Heard’s $100 million US counterclaim in opposition to Depp. She says she was defamed by Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, when he referred to as Heard’s accusations a hoax.

Heard has stated the accusations damage her profession, however Vasquez pointed to a sequence of adverse articles about Heard that preceded Waldman’s feedback.

The jury additionally heard an audio recording of a verbal battle between the 2 wherein every belittled the opposite’s performing profession. Heard laughed mockingly at Depp’s career-making position within the ’80s tv present 21 Soar Avenue.

“Hey, no less than I did not do, like, a teeny present the place I am a heartthrob. God that might be, like, embarrassing,” Heard stated.

Depp responded with dismissive commentary about Heard’s largest movie position thus far, shouting “Aquaman!” in a mocking option to denigrate the superhero movie. 

And Heard took offence when Vasquez urged that she solely acquired the position in Aquaman with Depp’s assist.

“Excuse me?” Heard stated. “No, Ms. Vasquez, I acquired myself that position by auditioning.”

Help is accessible for anybody who has been abused or assaulted. You may entry disaster traces and native help providers via the Ending Violence Association of Canada database. The Canadian Girls’s Basis’s Signal For Help is a silent, one-handed gesture to make use of in a video name to point that you’re vulnerable to violence at dwelling. ​​If you happen to’re in quick hazard or concern to your security or that of others round you, please name 911.