Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAmber Heard told jurors on Monday that she decided to divorce Johnny Depp because she was afraid she “wouldn’t survive” if she stayed in the relationship.Heard resumed her testimony after a 10-day break in the defamation trial in Fairfax, Va.
Heard recounted the final months of her marriage to Depp, including a series of violent incidents in which she alleges that Depp would choke her, hit her and throw objects at her during drug-fueled rages.Heard filed for divorce in May 2016, after Depp allegedly threw a phone at her, hitting her in the face, during an argument at the couple’s downtown L.A.
apartment.“I knew I had to leave him. I knew I wouldn’t survive it if I didn’t,” she testified. “I was so scared that it was going to end really badly for me… The violence was now normal and not the exception… I believe he would have taken it too far and I wouldn’t be here.” Heard began her testimony on May 4.
She has previously told the jury that Depp repeatedly sexually assaulted her and that she feared for her life. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million, claiming that she fabricated her allegations against him and destroyed his career in the process of advancing her own.
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