Amber Heard Confirms She Had James Franco Over the Night Before Filing for Divorce From Johnny Depp: ‘He’s My Friend’

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A third wheel? Amber Heard took heat on the stand during her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s ongoing defamation trial against her, this time over her relationship with James Franco.The Aquaman actress, 36, was cross-examined on Tuesday, May 17, about the events that led to Franco, 44, entering her home the night before she filed for divorce against the Sweeney Todd star, 58.While Heard originally claimed that she did “not know when James came over,” the Drive Angry actress later confirmed the event, explaining why she felt comfortable having the 127 Hours actor in her home.“He was my friend.

And he lived next door, quite literally next door,” she told Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez during the trial. “And I, frankly, had exhausted my support network with my usual friends and was happy to welcome as much friendship at that time as I could possibly get.”In her testimony, the Texas native revealed that she had become “close friends” with the Freaks and Geeks alum after the pair filmed multiple movies together.

Heard went on to claim that Depp would routinely get jealous and accuse her of having affairs with her costars.“[Johnny] was mad at me for taking the job with James Franco,” the Danish Girl star alleged during her May 5 testimony. “He hated James Franco and was already accusing me of kind of secretly having a thing with him in my past, since we had done Pineapple Express together.”Heard previously claimed that her marriage with the Kentucky native took a turn for the worse after she was cast in The Adderall Diaries with Franco in 2015 while Depp was off filming Black Mass in Boston.“He had already been upset with me and accused me in many arguments about not telling him about scenes that I had, if I had a kissing scene,” she