Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are suing one another for defamation, every claiming they have been abused earlier than and through their roughly two-year marriage.
A Virginia jury is listening to the case, which is anticipated to run via late Could.
Beneath are key moments within the trial thus far:
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Depp testified that he by no means hit Heard or every other lady
He mentioned she was the one who turned abusive and “bullied” him with “demeaning title calling.”
“If I stayed to argue, finally, I used to be positive it was going to escalate into violence, and oftentimes it did.”
The pair provided differing accounts of an early 2015 argument in Australia, the place Depp was filming a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film
Depp mentioned Heard threw a vodka bottle that severed the highest of his proper center finger. The actor mentioned he went into shock and wrote messages to Heard on the wall utilizing blood from the finger.
Heard sobbed as she informed the jury that Depp sexually assaulted her that evening by inserting a liquor bottle in her vagina.
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“I used to be scared,” she mentioned. “I had simply married him.”
A number of months later, Heard mentioned, Depp broke her nostril and ripped out chunks of her hair throughout one other violent encounter.
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Heard’s attorneys launched photographs that they mentioned confirmed accidents after numerous arguments, together with scars on her arm that have been seen as she posed on a purple carpet, and redness and swelling round a watch that she mentioned was struck by a telephone thrown by Depp.
A lawyer for Depp confirmed pictures from public appearances that they mentioned have been taken across the time of their fights and appeared to indicate no accidents, and steered Heard edited photographs to make the redness seem extra pronounced. Heard mentioned she by no means edited the photographs.
Depp testified that feces have been discovered within the couple’s mattress in 2016
Considered one of his safety guards mentioned Heard informed him it was “a horrible sensible joke gone mistaken.”
Heard denied any involvement and steered one of many couple’s canines was accountable.
Heard’s attorneys launched textual content messages during which Depp referred to as Heard a “filthy w—e” and mentioned he needed her useless
Writing to actor Paul Bettany in 2013, Depp mentioned: “Let’s drown her earlier than we burn her” and “I’ll f–k her burnt corpse afterward to ensure she is useless.”
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