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Johnny Depp‘s cross-examination continued Monday as he took the stand for a fourth day to testify in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard, whom he has accused of ruining his repute and profession with false accusations of home violence.
From co-stars to lovers to foes, jurors (and the world at giant) have watched the previous couple battle it out via their legal professionals, as every fights to color the opposite because the extra poisonous particular person within the relationship.
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Up to now, Depp has testified that he has by no means bodily abused Heard or some other girl. He’s maintained that Heard was an instigator within the relationship, who would push him to change into embroiled in profane arguments. He additionally stated that Heard punched, kicked and threw objects at him over the course of their relationship.
Final week he detailed for the court docket his model of the couple’s now-infamous journey to Australia, the place they had been staying whereas Depp filmed the fifth film within the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Depp informed the court docket that Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, which shattered on his hand and severed the highest of his center finger.
By his testimony, Depp has repeatedly maintained that he bears the traits of a “Southern gentleman” and that he has not been hooked on illicit medicine or alcohol.
Nevertheless, Heard’s lawyer, Benjamin Rottenborn, offered secretly recorded video that confirmed a visibly intoxicated Depp violently slamming kitchen cupboards and smashing glasses in his Hollywood dwelling.
Rottenborn additionally shared textual content messages Depp despatched to varied mates (together with WandaVision‘s Paul Bettany) wherein he referred to as Heard a “slippery whore” and steered that they drown and burn Heard earlier than having intercourse with “her burnt corpse afterward to ensure she is useless.”
A few of the most stunning proof was offered on the finish of Thursday’s cross-examination, when Rottenborn performed for the jury a five-minute audio clip of considered one of Depp and Heard’s final in-person conferences in 2016.
Within the recording, Depp might be heard repeatedly attempting to persuade Heard to chop him with a knife and threatening self-harm.
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“Do you wish to reduce me someplace?” he asks.
“Please don’t damage your self,” she says.
“In case you don’t, I’ll,” he replies.
A number of occasions all through the clip, Heard repeatedly asks Depp to not reduce himself and tells him she won’t reduce him, both.
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The authorized battle between the 2 stars has captured the eye of spectators across the globe, with each Heard, 36, and Depp, 58, claiming to be victims of violence. The preliminary court docket case started when Depp filed a $50-million defamation lawsuit over a Washington Put up op-ed penned by Heard in late 2018 about home abuse.
Heard didn’t point out Depp by title within the article, however the actor alleges his repute and profession had been nonetheless “devastated” because of this.
Depp’s legal professionals have already referred to as on a number of witnesses, together with mates, the couple’s therapist and the physician and nurse who declare they handled the Pirates of the Caribbean actor for substance abuse points.
In opening statements delivered by the previous spouses’ authorized groups final week, Depp’s legal professionals declare Heard is “selecting to lie about him for her personal private profit.”
Heard’s legal professionals argued the alternative, claiming freedom of speech allowed the Aquaman actor to pen the Washington Put up op-ed.
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