Amber Heard accused her ex-husband Johnny Depp of calling her a "whore", kicking her in the back and then laughing when she cried.
The claims were made in an email Heard, 34, wrote to herself but never sent which was read out in court today as part of Depp's libel case against News Group Newspapers.
Depp, 57, is suing NGN over a story published in The Sun in 2018 which branded him a "wife beater" - a claim which he strenuously denies.
Heard's email relates to a trip on a private jet she took with her then-husband from Boston to Los Angeles back in 2014, during which Heard alleges Depp assaulted her.
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