Amber Heard strikes back: Johnny Depp's ex explains why he lived through hell with the actor
The actor yesterday filed a defamation lawsuit
against Amber Heard in the state of Virginia for a column published in the
Washington Post in 2018, in which the actress described herself as a "victim
of domestic violence" harassed by society after having denounced Depp two
years earlier.
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The trial, which began this Tuesday and which had the actors
face-to-face, could last several weeks and has a long list of witnesses such
as the artists Ellen Barkin and James Franco.
Amber Heard's lawyers said Tuesday that the actress
lived through hell during her marriage to Johnny Depp, turned into a
"monster" by drugs and alcohol, with fits of rage that ended in verbal,
physical and sexual assaults.
"Heard loved the side of Johnny that we see in the movies,
charismatic, charming, generous, he's the man she fell in love with. But
unfortunately the monster showed up and this monster showed up when he was
drinking or taking drugs," he told jurors. attorney Elaine Bredehoft.
"Depp had a huge rage in him that transformed him into a
demon and it was during these episodes of rage that she attacked Heard
verbally, psychologically, physically and sexually," Bredehoft
explained.
In addition, she recounted several scenes of violence,
especially in March 2015 in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth
episode of "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Did Johnny Depp Hit Amber Heard?
The lawyer plans to show the jury shocking photos of Heard with
bruises, split lips, torn hair.
"The actress never left her
makeup kit to hide the bruises on her face,"
Heard applied for a restraining order, claiming that the
actor had hit her. She but she resigned from these positions as part of her
divorce, which was finalized in 2017.
Following the column's publication in the newspaper, Depp, who
denies hitting her, filed a defamation lawsuit against Heard, seeking $50
million in damages.
The actress, in turn, filed a defamation lawsuit in which she
asks for 100 million dollars.
