Amber Heard says Johnny Depp threatened to kill her
Actress Amber Heard assured this Wednesday, March 4, 2022 that her ex-husband, also actor Johnny Depp, threatened to kill her during an argument they both had on her yacht when they were traveling through the Bahamas.
A week after Depp finished her testimony, Heard took the stand at the Fairfax (Virginia, USA) court to testify at the trial that she is facing the couple for defamation, and in which they accuse each other of mutual abuse. .
In the litigation, Depp accuses her of defamation for an article she published in The Washington Post in 2018, after her divorce, in which she claimed to have suffered "domestic abuse".
"I'm here because my husband denounced me for an article I wrote," started Heard, 36, who insisted that it is "deeply painful" for her to have to relive the darkest moments of her five-year relationship.
Throughout her statement, which lasted more than three hours, Heard described Depp, 58, as a violent man, unable to control her aggressiveness and with serious drug addiction problems.
Contrary to the version of the actor, who has assured that he never hit a woman, the actress detailed several moments in which Depp allegedly hit her, threatened her and even sexually abused her.
Heard spoke of a trip to the Bahamas that she took with the actor, just before she sold her yacht, and in which they had an argument about her problems with alcohol and drugs. According to the actress, Depp criticized him for having talked about her addiction with her children, also present on the trip.
"Then he grabbed me by the neck, held me for a second and told me that he could kill me and that I was a disgrace," said Heard, who appeared in court in a dark three-piece suit and broke down several times. .
Depp, present in the room wearing sunglasses and a gray suit, tried to avoid eye contact with Heard, although he did not hide an expression of disbelief upon hearing that comment.
The couple met during the filming of "The Rum Diary" in 2008 and, according to the actress, both felt an immediate crush although they did not officially start dating until 2011.
"When I was with him he made me feel like the most beautiful person in the world, I felt seen," she said excitedly.
But she went on to describe the first time Depp hit her, one night at her apartment after she laughed at a tattoo of his.
"I wish I would have been able to leave but I didn't," she stressed.
According to Heard, from then on Depp behaved more violently, conditioned by the effects of drugs, even introducing a glass bottle and looking for drugs in his private parts.
Last week, Depp ended four days of oral testimony in which he said he was the victim and that Heard broke his finger, which had to be rebuilt, after hitting him w ith a vodka bottle during another argument.
The actor asks his ex-partner USD 50 million for damages.
For her part, Heard has responded with a counterclaim in which she alleges that Depp has launched a smear campaign against her and claims 100 million.
It is the first time that the two celebrities have faced each other in court: in the trial held in 2020 in London, and which Depp lost, the actress attended as a witness, since the accusation was against the British newspaper The Sun for an article that described the actor as "aggressor of women".
