Johnny Depp’s $50M Trial Against Amber Heard About To Get Even More Down, Dirty & Explicit

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Barreling towards closing arguments on May 27, Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against Amber Heard is about to get very ugly.Resuming tomorrow after a weeklong break, the April 11 starting Virginia-set proceedings will find the Aquaman star under cross examination from her litigious ex-husband’s pricey Brown Rudick attorneys later on Monday. “During the cross examination next week, Camille Vasquez plans to call out Ms.

Heard on the many lies and inconsistencies in her timeline that have changed considerably over the last six years,” a source close to the former Pirates of the Caribbean actor’s camp told Deadline.After a sometimes sobbing Heard testified in the first week of May about Depp’s alleged heavy drug and alcohol intake, plus seemingly rampant psychical, emotional and verbal violence abuse of her, the plaintiff’s side will be trying to drag the jury’s attention back to their contention that Depp is the true injured party in the couple’s considerably contentious relationship and out of the 2018 Washington Post op-ed that lit this legal fire.

Graphic revelations of multiple alleged sexual assaults by Depp of Heard, which were affirmed by the defense’s first witness clinical psychologist Dr.

Dawn Hughes, have also presented Depp’s lawyers with a potential leg-hold trap to be caught in if they make a wrong step.All of which means, a scorched-earth approach to Heard from the often acerbic Vasquez is very likely – at least to the defense.“We expect Depp’s attorneys will instead pound away on the victim,” a Heard spokesperson told Deadline of their view of the next stage of the trial. “We fear it will be equal parts shameful and desperate.