Amber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp Hit Her on Her 30th Birthday

variety.com:

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentAmber Heard alleged in court on Tuesday that Johnny Depp beat her up on her 30th birthday.

She was giving evidence on the 11th day of Depp’s libel trial against the publisher of The Sun newspaper, which is taking place at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.Depp is suing News Group Newspapers and journalist Dan Wootton for an article on The Sun’s website that described him as a “wife beater.” Depp denies that he was violent toward Heard, to whom he was married from 2015 to 2017.Depp assaulted her, Heard alleges, after her 30th birthday party on April 21, 2016, when she complained that he had turned up late. “After hitting me, he took off, as he always did,” she told the court. “I fell asleep.