Amber Heardreturned to the witness stand to testify about death threats she’s received during the trial andJohnny Deppallegedly threatening to ruin her life if she ever left him.
“Every single day, I have to relive the trauma,” the 36-year-old actress told the courtroom on the final day of testimonies in the defamation trial. Heard told the jury through tears, “Perhaps it’s easy to forget that, but I’m a human being,” as she described the “pain” she has experienced over the course of the live-televised trial as daily “torture.”
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Heard, who has admitted to responding with violence and verbal abuse toward Depp in their relationship, added: “I’m not a saint. I’m not trying to present myself as one, as you all know.”
“It’s been agonizing,” she said, referencing the online “mocking” of her testimony. “I just want Johnny to leave me alone.” She added, “I don’t deserve this. I want to move on.”
During cross-examination from Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez, she asked about Heard’s “lies” being “exposed,” to which Heard replied, “I haven’t lied about anything I’ve been here to say.”
When Depp, 58, got back on the stand for one last time on Wednesday, he conveyed the impact Heard’s allegations have had on his life andcategorically denied her “insane” testimony.
“No human being is perfect, certainly not. None of us. But I have never in my lifecommitted sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things and living with it for six years and waiting to be able to bring the truth out,” he said, later adding, “This is not easy for any of us; I know that.”
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Heard previously said on the stand that she worried if she didn’t leave Depp she “wouldn’t survive”: “I was so scared that it was going to end really badly for me. … I believe he would have taken it too far and I wouldn’t be here.” Depp, meanwhile, has testified that he never struck Heard or any woman in his life.
She recalled thinking it “seemed crazy” Depp thought she was taking part in an “elaborate, well-orchestrated, years-long campaign” to make false claims of abuse. She said she didn’t want to have to testify because “I didn’t want this to go to a prosecutor. I didn’t want to hurt Johnny. Idon’twant this to hurt Johnny.”
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
source: people.com
