Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are issuing statements amid their ongoing defamation trial. On Friday (May 6), the 58-year-old actor and 36-year-old actress’ respective legal teams released statements after Amber‘s explosive testimony a day earlier, in which she detailed the alleged abuse she had experienced from Johnny. Click inside to read more… “As Mr. Depp‘s counsel correctly predicted in their opening statements last month, Ms. Heard did indeed deliver ‘the performance of her life’ in her direct examination,” a rep for Johnny told People. “While Ms. Heard‘s stories have continued to grow new and convenient details, Mr. Depp‘s recollections have remained exactly the same throughout the six painful years since her first allegations were made,” they continued. “His truth — the truth — is the same no matter the environment in which it has been presented.” The statement concluded, “The upcoming cross examination from Mr. Depp‘s team will be most telling, and will certainly highlight the many fallacies Ms. Heard has now attempted to pass off as fact throughout her convoluted testimony.” In response, the Aquaman star’s team told the outlet: “As evidenced by the statement just released, Mr. Depp‘s defamation claim is falling apart so rapidly that his counsel are turning from prosecutor to persecutor.” “They boast that Mr. Depp‘s story has not changed.
If so, since he lost the Domestic Violence Restraining Order and he resoundingly lost the libel case in the UK, perhaps he should consider a new strategy rather than the recycled approach of attacking the victim, and refusing to take responsibility for his own conduct,” the rep continued. “If Mr. Depp was truly innocent, why has he repeatedly apologized to Ms. Heard and
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