Amber Heard

Actor Johnny Depp testified on Tuesday that he never struck his ex-wife Amber Heard, and was challenging her accusations in a $50-million US defamation case ...

Heard accused Depp of domestic abuse after filing for divorce in 2016. Depp's lawyers have said they filed the case in Fairfax County, outside the District of Columbia, because the newspaper is printed at a facility there. A London High Court judge ruled he had repeatedly assaulted Heard and put her in fear for her life. The witnesses testified that they were aware of arguments between the couple but had not witnessed physical abuse by Depp toward Heard. He filed a $50-million lawsuit against Heard in 2018. His two children from a previous relationship were in high school at the time, he said.

The actor describes his childhood of physical abuse as he takes the stand in a Virginia court.

And generally it was me," he said. On Monday, a nurse who was hired to treat Mr Depp's drug addiction and attended the couple's wedding testified that she witnessed Ms Heard "try to instigate" conflict with her former husband on several occasions. The jury has heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple's former therapist, who described how Mr Depp and Ms Heard engaged in "mutual abuse", as well as from medical workers who treated Mr Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates. Mr Depp began his testimony saying that Ms Heard's claims are "not based in any species of the truth". The trial has focused so far on Mr Depp's demeanour and whether he was ever verbally or physically abusive towards Ms Heard. Lawyers for Mr Depp have accused his ex-wife, an actress, of giving the "performance of her life" in her descriptions of alleged abuse. "I never struck Ms Heard in that way, nor have I struck any woman in my life," he testified, adding that "her accusations sort of permeated the industry".

Dans le procès opposant Johnny Depp et Amber Heard pour diffamation, l'ancienne infirmière de l'acteur a témoigné des disputes dont elle a été témoin.

Debbie Lloyd était également présente le jour où Johnny Depp a perdu son doigt. Debbie Lloyd a également évoqué cette fois où la comédienne a bloqué l’ascenseur de leur maison dans lequel se trouvait Johnny Depp et des connaissances – dont l’infirmière – parce qu’Amber Heard aurait refusé qu’il s’en aille. Elle ne sait pas comment cela s’est produit, certaines personnes affirmant que cela se serait produit après qu’Amber Heard ait jeté une bouteille de vodka dans sa direction, d’autres qu’il se serait fait cela avec son téléphone.

La docteure Laurel Anderson s'est exprimée lors du procès qui oppose actuellement Johnny Depp à Amber Heard. Pour la conseillère conjugale, la comédienne ...

Au cours de l’audience, David Kipper s’est lui aussi exprimé à la barre. Laurel Anderson a également évoqué le passé des deux acteurs qui ont tout deux connu des violences : « Madame Heard a déclaré qu’il était surtout question de fierté pour elle, si elle ne se sentait pas respectée, d’initier une bagarre. « Il se contrôlait très bien depuis 20 ou 30 ans […] et tout est arrivé avec Madame Heard. Ils se sont engagés dans ce que je considère être un abus mutuel », précise la médecin qui note également les difficultés de l’ancien couple à communiquer.

Johnny Depp took the stand in court to testify against ex-wife Amber Heard, who he accuses of ruining his reputation and career with false accusations of ...

Bettany, who had several private and disturbing text messages with Depp read in court in 2020, will testify as part of Depp’s team. Depp claims the injury occurred in 2015 when Heard allegedly threw a bottle at him. “It started out with little things like that,” he said. “To escape the chaotic nature of what we were living through.” Depp said he’s “not some maniac who needs to be high or loaded all the time,” and described times of his life where he’s gone completely sober for months at a time. One day, when he came home from work he took off his shoes himself and said Heard became “visibly shaken, upset, that I had broken her rules of routine.” He also said that he was addicted to an opiate similar to oxycontin, called roxycontin. The initial court case began when Depp filed a $50-million defamation lawsuit over a Washington Post op-ed penned by Heard in late 2018 about domestic abuse. “In our house we were never exposed to any type of safety or security. Depp revisited the story he shared earlier in the day about Heard removing his boots, and also recalled Heard trying to control his bedtime, demanding that he go to bed at the same time as her. He said it was prescribed to him for an injury he sustained while on the set of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and he was addicted to the painkillers for approximately five years. The day concluded with Depp answering questions about the beginning of his relationship with Heard. He spoke about when they met on the set of The Rum Diary, and how they shared both an on-screen and off-screen kiss, despite each being in relationships.

L'acteur Johnny Depp s'est exprimé au tribunal pour la première fois lors du procès qui l'oppose à son ancienne femme, Amber Heard.

Amber Heard, présente dans la salle d’audience, a écouté avec attention et le visage impassible le récit de celui qui a été son mari durant deux ans. «Je n’ai jamais frappé Mlle Heard ou toute autre femme de ma vie», a affirmé la vedette, d’un ton lent et grave. Mais elle évoquait les accusations de violences conjugales qu’elle avait portées contre son mari en 2016.