Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's marriage counsellor says she 'would strike him to keep him'

express.co.uk:

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp for a total of 21 historic sessions as they struggled to repair their marriage, told the court that "abandonment" was Amber's "worst nightmare" and that she would strike her partner in a bid to keep him there.The counsellor also claimed that she believed the abuse was "mutual".Based on notes she'd taken during their sessions, she described Johnny as a man who had been "well controlled" for decades, and depicted both himself and Amber as victims of abuse at home in their younger years.She also claimed that Amber felt humiliated if Johnny attacked her, as it linked back to when she felt powerless as a child when being "physically violated" by her father."Her history is having been violated by her father [so] she was sensitive to feeling disrespected," she said."If she felt disrespected, she had come out of her background history feeling her pride needed to dominate and she needed to stand up for herself.""I know she led [the physical fighting] on more than one occasion and started it to keep him with her because abandonment and having him leave was her worst nightmare," Dr.

Anderson told the court.She added at Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny's $50 million defamation trial: "Miss Heard reported that it was a point of pride to her, if she felt disrespected, to initiate a fight.

Her father had beaten her, she was not going to end."She continued: "If he was going to leave she would strike him to keep him there."She would rather be in a fight than have him leave."Dr Anderson, whose testimony was screened by video, explained: "He had been well controlled for almost 20, 30 years...