Johnny Depp, 58, and Amber Heard’s, 36, multi-million-dollar defamation trial continued on Monday with new audio recordings.
As the lawsuit began its third week, Johnny resumed giving evidence on the stand at Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia.The jury first heard new audio clips of Amber shouting at Johnny: “Go and put your f***ing cigarettes out on someone else."You will have consequences for your actions!”Johnny replied by telling his then-wife to “shut up fat a**.”When probed by Amber’s lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, Johnny denied ever putting a cigarette out, or throwing one, at the actress.In a later recording, Johnny said: “If I don’t walk away right now, it is just going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island.”He then asked Amber: “Why be miserable?
Can we just have some understanding?”To which Amber said: “Please can we? No one in their right mind is going to choose a bloodbath over walking away, obviously, if you are given the option.”Johnny winced in court as he heard himself say: “Then why has it been chosen so many times?”Other recordings featured Amber sounding emotional, while she told Johnny to "listen to me cry".Text messages shown to the court also saw Johnny calling the Aquaman star a "lesbian camp counsellor," a term he says Amber originated.The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is suing his ex-wife over an op-ed written for The Washington Post in 2018.In the article, Amber said she had been “harassed and sexually assaulted by the time” she was of “college age”.She added that she became “a public figure representing domestic abuse” two years prior to writing.Johnny was not named in the piece, but his lawyers claim it falsely implies that the actor abused her and are suing Amber for $50 million.Amber.
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