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Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp assaulted her on their honeymoon, blames dog for poop, claims Aquaman 2 part reduced 'The overwhelming evidence — the truth — is not on Depp's side,' a rep for Heard tells the Sun in a statement Photo by Steve Helber / Associated Press
Article content When she returned to the stand Monday, Amber Heard recounted more instances of alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of former husband Johnny Depp during their five-year relationship.
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tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp assaulted her on their honeymoon, blames dog for poop, claims Aquaman 2 part reduced Back to video Heard was back in front of jurors in a Virginia courtroom where the former spouses are airing their dirty laundry in an ongoing defamation case. During their honeymoon in July 2015 on the Orient Express, Heard, 36, said the train trip was peaceful up until Depp, 58, wanted to drink “brown alcohol.” “We were on this train and on the last night we were on the train, Johnny and I got in an argument about him being allowed to drink liquor,” Heard told her attorney Elaine Bredehoft. “Johnny slapped me across the face and … had me up against the wall … he was squeezing my neck against the railway car.” She continued, “I remember looking down at him trying to get his hands off my neck and thinking, ‘He might not even mean to kill me.’ I was slightly above him as he was standing on the ground, clawing at him … I remember at one point he ripped the top of my shirt, I had a breast exposed.”
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Article content He then tore his shirt off and wrapped it around her neck, she told the jury. “That’s how I woke up,” she said. “I woke up with it still around my neck and a giant knot on the back of my head.” Heard said she wrote about what happened that night the next morning in her diary. “It was a violent, chaotic, at times loving, relationship,” she said revealing that she would invoke the word “couch” during some of their battles. “It was our safe word,” she said. “It meant truce.” Photo by Steve Helber / Associated Press The following month after the couple’s brief honeymoon was rocked by Depp’s continued drug abuse, she alleged. Heard recalled her trepidation over telling him she was considering taking an acting job opposite James Franco, whom he accused her of having an affair with earlier, and would have involved nudity.
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Article content She also recounted how Depp reacted when she screened her film London Fields for him that involved a sex scene which was performed by a body double. “Johnny slapped me in the face … at another moment, he punched me across the jaw,” she said. “I went flying into this old church furniture. I thought I sustained a concussion.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Heard found a folder on her laptop labelled, “No fun for JD,” that contained photos of her from red carpet events and featured her in revealing outfits. Jurors also heard audio from the couple’s fights as well as a short video in which Depp smashed cupboards in their kitchen and yelled, “I’ll show you f—ing crazy!” “You ain’t nobody’s f—ing mom,” Depp was heard screaming in another exchange. “You don’t exist!”
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Article content Heard said she recorded the fights because she was afraid. “I was scared he wouldn’t remember.” Photo by Steve Helber / Associated Press The Aquaman actress also alleged that during their fights, Depp was prone to self-harm. “He did that often. I almost called 911 in August 2014 because I thought he (injured himself),” she said. “He often drew blood superficially … he’d put cigarettes out on himself and mostly he would do it while screaming at me.” Elsewhere, jurors were shown pictures of Heard at a variety of film premieres that purportedly showed scars from when she had been allegedly attacked by Depp in Australia in March of 2015. “That’s me on the red carpet promoting the Magic Mike movie I was in, those are scars on my body. … You can see the scars on my arm from that attack,” she said.
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Article content When another photo was shown from a different red carpet, she said: “Those are scars that I obtained while Johnny was strangling me on the countertop in Australia.” Photo by Law & Crime Network / YouTube Photos of her bruised face, after Depp allegedly threw a phone at her, were also entered into evidence. “Bruises on my face was faster healing than bruising on my body,” she said. Photo by Reuters “My perception was that no matter what I did … nothing I did made a difference … nothing I did calmed him down. I was constantly doing a juggling act (with) what version of Johnny I was dealing with.” Heard also spoke about Depp grabbing her by the pubic bone and chest-bumping her on the night of her 30th birthday party. She also addressed the infamous poop that was found in the couple’s marital bed in April 2016.
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Article content Starling Jenkins, a member of Depp’s security team, alleged that Heard said the poop was “a horrible practical joke gone wrong.” But Heard maintained her claim that it was Depp’s dog Boo that defecated in their bed. “She had eaten Johnny’s weed when she was a puppy and had bowel issues … control issues,” Heard said. The pup liked to burrow in the sheets and sometimes had accidents in the bed, she added. Heard then explicitly denied “dropping a grumpy” in their bed, even as a joke. “I don’t think that’s funny,” she said. “My life was falling apart and I was attacked on my 30th birthday … I don’t think that’s funny. It’s disgusting.” The ongoing courtroom saga has already been filled with headline-making drama, including photos showing the Edward Scissorhands star passed out after binging on drugs and alcohol and text messages in which the Oscar nominee spoke about violating her “burnt corpse.”
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Article content Heard told jurors that police were called a number of times to disturbances at their residence early on in their relationship. “I would have liked to have believed that I wasn’t hit so early in the relationship and stayed. I’m embarrassed to say that,” she said. “Behind closed doors, it was not what it looked like.” She said she had to leave because she feared her life was at stake. “I knew I had to leave him. I knew I wouldn’t survive if I didn’t.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or During the afternoon’s proceedings, Heard alleged Depp orchestrated a “smear campaign” that harmed her career after she filed for divorce in 2016. “Johnny told me that no one would ever touch me — professionally that no one would ever work with me again,” she said. “That I would never work again. That he would ruin my career … Johnny used the fact that his friends would back him up.”
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Article content Heard spoke about losing her gig as a L’Oreal spokesperson and revealed she only made $65,000 for an independent movie she filmed in March of this year. When it came to an upcoming sequel to Aquaman, Heard said she appears in a “very pared down” role as Queen Mera. “I was given a script and given a new version of the script that had taken away action between my character and another character … they basically (reduced) my role.” A petition calling for the removal of Heard from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom reached 4 million signatures on Friday. As she prepared to be cross-examined, a representative for Heard told the Toronto Sun that her team expects Depp’s attorney to “pound away on the victim” instead of trying to “argue the facts.”
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Article content “There’s an old saying by trial lawyers: when the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When the facts are not on your side, pound away on the podium,” the rep said. “We fear it will be equal parts shameful and desperate. And, the overwhelming evidence — the truth — is not on Depp’s side.” Depp is suing his ex-wife for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard has counter-sued for $100 million, arguing Depp smeared her by calling her a liar. When he took the stand last month, Depp was forced to admit his past drug abuse, but he alleged that Heard abused him and severed the tip of his finger.
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Article content “She has a need for violence. It erupts out of nowhere,” Depp said. During her cross-examination late Monday afternoon, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez began to pick apart pieces of Heard’s testimony. Asking her whether she had ever known Depp to not wear “chunky, big rings,” Vasquez questioned Heard’s appearance the night after she claimed he hit her so hard she thought he had “broken her nose.” “Your nose doesn’t appear to be injured in any of these pictures,” Vasquez said. Heard coolly replied that she was wearing makeup and that she used ice to cover up swelling. Vasquez showed another photo of Heard and Depp at the premiere for Mortdecai in Tokyo in 2015 after she claimed she had been assaulted that showed the couple smiling together on the red carpet.
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Article content Later, Vasquez brought up Heard’s allegations that she was raped by a liquor bottle and was injured in a fight in Australia later that same year and confirmed that there was no police or medical report filed in conjunction with the supposed attack. Another gruesome incident that left Heard allegedly bloodied occurred on Dec. 15, 2015, the day before Heard’s appearance on James Corden’s Late Late Show. But Vasquez showed clips and images to the jury of her jovial interview that showed no signs of her injuries. A medical record read aloud by Vasquez also didn’t document any physical injuries to the actress. “What you do have are a lot of pictures of Mr. Depp sleeping, right?” Vasquez said as she cycled through photos of the actor passed out. “I took pictures of him so that he knew that it was real; that (his drug abuse) had gotten that bad,” she responded. mdaniell@postmedia.com
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