Amber Heard sobs as she recounts battle the place Johnny Depp allegedly sexually assaulted her with vodka bottle

Amber Heard sobbed as she recounted a battle in Australia with Johnny Depp throughout which she claims that he sexually assaulted her with a vodka bottle.

The defamation trial between Mr Depp and Ms Heard started on 11 April in Fairfax, Virginia following Mr Depp’s lawsuit in opposition to his ex-wife in March 2019. Mr Depp is arguing that she defamed him in a December 2018 op-ed revealed in The Washington Put up titled “I spoke up in opposition to sexual violence — and confronted our tradition’s wrath. That has to vary”.

Of the March 2015 incident in Australia, Ms Heard stated Mr Depp had misplaced “a tonne of weight, so I knew one thing was up”.

“The primary evening … when he shoved me, I went skidding throughout the flooring … it was really easy for him to throw me round like that,” she stated.

She claimed that Mr Depp grabbed her neck and smashed her head in opposition to a wall. Ms Heard stated she slept behind a “barricaded” door and that she took sleeping capsules to go to sleep. When she awoke, she stated Mr Depp was “nonetheless up”.

Ms Heard stated they’d an argument about medicine, together with MDMA. “He took a handful of capsules … both eight or 10 capsules … of MDMA,” she stated.

She added that Mr Depp accused her of not liking his sister and that he was upset about actors she had labored with, together with Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Lady.

By March 2015, Ms Heard stated she had heard Mr Depp use the phrase “the one method out of that is demise”, referring to their relationship, about 25 occasions.

In a subsequent battle, Ms Heard stated Mr Depp slammed her “exhausting” in opposition to the partitions, calling her a “wh**e, sl**, fata**”.

She added that he would drink in entrance of her “as a present of power”. She claimed that Mr Depp stated that others had warned him about her and that “no one” favored her.

She stated she shoved him off of her, and that he responded “you wanna go, little lady?” and proceeded to shove her right into a video games desk and that he saved “whacking” her face.

Ms Heard testified that Mr Depp “taunted” her to take a bottle from him. She stated she ultimately grabbed it and “smashed it on the ground” which “actually set him off” and that he “backhanded” her and threw one other bottle at her.

She added that he later had a “damaged bottle” in opposition to her face, saying that he would “carve” it up.

Ms Heard stated she didn’t keep in mind if she threw something in his route, however that she doesn’t suppose she did.

“He was throwing these bottles, one after the opposite, and I felt glass breaking behind me,” she stated, including that he ripped off her nightgown.

“He’s screaming at me that he hates me and that I ruined his life,” Ms Heard stated. “I f***ing hate you, you ruined my f***ing life,” she quoted him as yelling.

Ms Heard stated Mr Depp’s eyes went “black” and that she “couldn’t see him anymore”.

“I’ve by no means been so scared in my whole life,” she added. Ms Heard stated Mr Depp was on high of her and that she tried to inform him that he was “actually hurting me”.

“I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t get by to him, I couldn’t rise up … I don’t know what occurred subsequent,” Ms Heard stated.

“I might really feel this strain on my pubic bone,” she added, saying that it “appeared like” Mr Depp was “punching” her, including that there have been “damaged bottles, damaged glass” everywhere in the room.

She stated she didn’t need to transfer “as a result of I didn’t know if it was damaged, I didn’t know if the bottle that he had inside me was damaged”.

“I couldn’t really feel it, I couldn’t really feel ache,” she added, saying that she keep in mind pondering “please God, I hope it’s not damaged”.

“I don’t understand how that ended,” Ms Heard stated, including that she remembers being within the rest room “retching” and that she “misplaced management of my bladder”.

“There was blood on the ground,” she stated, including that she took sleeping capsules to go to sleep that evening.

When she awoke the following morning, she stated it “turned clear that he was nonetheless up, he hadn’t gone to sleep”.

Ms Heard stated she noticed “dried blood” on the partitions. “I noticed what appeared like my identify,” she added.

“By the point I had gotten down the steps, the blood had been taken over by paint, navy blue paint,” she testified, including that one of many work in the home “had an enormous penis on it”.

“He simply appeared, he wasn’t there anymore, it wasn’t Johnny,” she stated of Mr Depp regarding the March 2015 incident.

Ms Heard stated Mr Depp has his hand wrapped in “bandana rags”.

“Look what you made me do, I did this for you,” Mr Depp stated, in line with Ms Heard. She stated she “rapidly turned conscious” that he was utilizing his finger as a paintbrush “though there have been numerous paintbrushes round”.

“I discovered he was lacking a finger, he type of held it up,” she added.

“What did you do? When?” she stated she requested him. “I realised in my head that there might have been many hours since this most likely occurred.”

Mr Depp appeared to chuckle within the courtroom on Thursday when Ms Heard stated that following the arrival of safety personnel, he “took his penis out of his pants, attempting to pee outdoors, saying that he had extra messages for me”.

She added that safety workers “corralled” Mr Depp again into the home “like a wild animal along with his penis nonetheless out of his pants, peeing or attempting to pee”.

Ms Heard stated Mr Depp stated he was “leaving extra messages” for her. “It made no sense,” she added.

The courtroom has beforehand been proven messages and “reminders” that Mr Depp scrawled in blood and paint after severing his finger in a battle throughout which he claims Ms Heard threw two vodka bottles at him.

When Mr Depp testified in regards to the incident earlier within the trial, he advised the courtroom: “It was all getting too loopy.”

Mr Depp stated, “I used to be a large number, I used to be a wreck, I used to be shaking” as he tried to keep away from Ms Heard.

He recalled pouring himself two or three “stiff photographs of vodka”, including that it was the “first style of alcohol I had had for a very long time”.

The actor stated Ms Heard yelled “oh, you’re consuming once more” when she discovered him.

“She walked as much as me, grabbed the bottle of vodka after which simply stood again and hurled it at me,” he stated. “It simply went proper previous my head and smashed behind me.”

Mr Depp testified that he grabbed one other, bigger bottle of vodka and poured himself one other shot as Ms Heard was “flinging insults left, proper, and centre”.

“She then grabbed that bottle and threw that at me,” Mr Depp stated, demonstrating to the jury how he was sitting on the time. He stated his fingers had been resting on the sting of the bar and that the big vodka bottle “made contact and shattered all over the place”.

“I felt no ache at first all,” he stated. “I felt warmth and as if one thing was dripping down my hand.”

“I used to be wanting immediately at my bones protruding,” he added. “Blood was simply pouring out.”

“I don’t know what a nervous breakdown seems like, however that’s most likely the closest that I’ve ever been,” he stated. “Nothing made sense and I knew in my thoughts and in my coronary heart that this isn’t life.”

“Nobody ought to must undergo this,” he added.

Being in the midst of one thing like a nervous breakdown, Mr Depp stated he began “to jot down in my very own blood on the partitions”.

“Little reminders from our previous that primarily represented lies that she had advised me and lies that I had caught her in,” he stated, including that he hid in a toilet and texted his physician to return over.

Exhibiting the finger that was injured to the courtroom, Mr Depp stated the bones had been “crushed” and that it appeared like “Vesuvius”, referring to the Italian volcano.

Mr Depp stated he couldn’t recall what Ms Heard stated after seeing his damage.

“It was nearly like white noise, simply somebody yelling,” he stated. “It was only a excessive pitched fixed assault of insults, it was simply jumbled phrases to me in a really excessive frequency and I used to be in a little bit of shock.”

In her 2018 op-ed, Ms Heard wrote that “like many ladies, I had been harassed and sexually assaulted by the point I used to be of faculty age. However I saved quiet — I didn’t anticipate submitting complaints to carry justice. And I didn’t see myself as a sufferer”.

“Then two years in the past, I turned a public determine representing home abuse, and I felt the total power of our tradition’s wrath for ladies who communicate out,” she added on the time.

Whereas Mr Depp isn’t named within the piece, his authorized staff argues that it incorporates a “clear implication that Mr Depp is a home abuser”, which they are saying is “categorically and demonstrably false”. Mr Depp is looking for damages of “not lower than $50m”.

Ms Heard has filed a $100m counterclaim in opposition to Mr Depp for nuisance and immunity from his allegations.