Amber Heard Tells Court Of “Painful & Difficult” Experience Being Sued By Johnny Depp In $50M Defamation Trial; ‘Pirates’ Actor Seems To Ignore Ex-Wife’s Testimony
deadline.com“I am here because my ex-husband is suing me for an op-ed I wrote,” Amber Heard said today in Virginia within seconds of taking the stand in the Johnny Depp $50 million defamation trial“I struggle to have the words to describe the words …this is horrible, sitting here for weeks and re-live everything the Aquaman star told her lead lawyer Elaine Bredehoft of the tales of violence and sexual assaults that have been brought up in the trial. ““This is the most painful and difficult thing I’ve ever gone through, for sure,” Heard added as Judge Penny Azcarte, the jury and others looked on in the courtroom.Notably, Johnny Depp did not watch his ex-wife deliver her testimony.
Instead, seated between two of his attorneys, the sunglasses wearing actor leaned over the table and seemed to be distinctly avoiding eye-contact by scribbling.
Depp has been seen in past days to be making drawings while others gave testimony, though it was hard to tell if that was what he was doing Wednesday.Leaning in to tell the jurors of her role as a mother now and her childhood near Austin, Texas, Heard’s testimony in the Fairfax County Courthouse comes over three years after her ex-husband sued her in March 2019 for a late 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote on being a survivor of domestic abuse.
Though the piece in the Jeff Bezo-owned broadsheet never actually mentioned the past Oscar nominee by name, the already litigious Depp insisted it was all about him, and that the article cost him big bucks roles in Hollywood and essentially “devastated” his one A-list career.Today Heard laid out her life up to coming to Hollywood in the first decade of the century.
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