Amber Heard testifies against Johnny Depp. She claimed that the she got the alleged bruise in the photo on the left after Depp threw a phone at her.
Nearly a month ago, Johnny Depp attempted to prove that his ex-wife Amber Heard was the abuser in their relationship by playing an audio recording of her admitting to hitting him. On the tape, Depp can be heard telling her that he tried to leave the room to escape.
“I did not fucking deck you,” Heard told Depp on the recording. “I fucking was hitting you.”
On Monday, Heard told a jury that the distinction referred to the “disparity between Johnny and I in our physical fights.”
Depp would “proactively punch me, and I would have to resort to reactively hitting him,” Heard insisted.
“I am talking about the difference between a punch, which Johnny did often, and me having to hit him in my defense,” Heard alleged. “I know the difference between those two, and I’m highlighting the difference between those two, even if he wasn’t twice my size. They’re very different.”
Depp sued Heard for defamation in a courtroom in Fairfax County, Va., after she published a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post depicting herself as a victim of domestic abuse. Printed at the height of the #MeToo movement, the editorial did not mention Depp by name but alluded to allegations that Heard made when she filed for a restraining order in 2016, some two years earlier.
Heard countersued when Depp’s attorney characterized her allegations as a “hoax.”
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