A buddy of actor Amber Heard testified Wednesday that she noticed the bruises and cuts left within the aftermath of a number of incidents of abuse inflicted by Heard’s ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
In a recorded deposition performed for jurors, Raquel Pennington mentioned she by no means personally witnessed Depp strike Heard. However she mentioned she noticed the accidents, and he or she took pictures of Heard’s face in December 2015 after a struggle by which Heard says Depp head-butted her and maybe broke her nostril.
The photograph exhibits a swollen nostril, a reduce lip, and two reasonably black eyes on Heard’s face.
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She additionally took a photograph of strands of hair that she mentioned have been ripped from Heard’s scalp.
Heard “typically needed to cowl bruises and accidents on her face” with make-up, Pennington mentioned within the January 2022 deposition.
Pennington mentioned she does not actually take into account herself a present buddy of Heard, and that the 2 grew aside within the final yr.
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Depp is suing Heard for libel in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court docket over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Put up describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His attorneys say he was defamed by the article regardless that it by no means talked about his title. The trial is now in its fifth week.
Depp says he by no means struck Heard and that he was the sufferer of abuse inflicted by Heard.
The December 2015 struggle is considered one of a number of that have been disputed. Whereas jurors have seen the pictures taken by Pennington documenting the accidents, they’ve additionally seen video of Heard’s look on a late-night discuss present the following day by which these accidents aren’t seen.
Heard has mentioned the accidents have been simply lined by make-up.
Pennington’s testimony comes after Heard wrapped up her time on the witness stand, together with two grueling days of cross-examination by which Depp’s attorneys questioned Heard concerning the truthfulness of her allegations of bodily and sexual abuse.
Pennington’s testimony offers corroborating proof to a number of of the alleged assaults.
Along with the December 2015 incident, Pennington mentioned she noticed cuts on Heard’s ft when she returned from a visit to Australia in March 2015. Heard testified that Depp sexually assaulted Heard with a liquor bottle on that journey and that she reduce her ft on damaged glass from the assault.
And Pennington, who lived for a time in a set of penthouses together with Depp and Heard, mentioned she was the primary individual to see Heard throughout a closing struggle between the couple in Could 2016 that precipitated the couple’s divorce.
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