Johnny Depp is predicted to take the witness stand Tuesday in his high-profile libel trial towards ex-wife Amber Heard.
The 58-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” star is about to testify in individual in a Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom in his bombshell $50 million authorized battle towards Heard, 35, whom he accuses of mendacity about bodily abusing her throughout their turbulent two-year marriage.
Depp’s civil grievance revolves round an essay that Heard wrote for the Washington Submit in 2018, by which she described herself because the “public determine representing home abuse.”
Though the op-ed doesn't point out Depp by title, his attorneys argue that it refers to a restraining order that Heard sought towards him in Might 2016, after her husband informed her he needed a divorce.
Depp has vehemently denied abusing Heard and accused her of constructing up the allegations towards him to get a big divorce settlement.
The libel trial bought underway final week, with Depp’s authorized workforce claiming that Heard’s lies in regards to the abuse have severely broken the actor’s fame and profession.
The Walt Disney Firm, which owns the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise, minimize ties with the actor, who starred as Captain Jack Sparrow, shortly after the publication of Heard’s opinion piece.
Heard’s attorneys argued that her Washington Submit essay by no means delved into her allegations towards her ex-husband.
On Monday, the jury heard testimony from Depp’s former non-public nurse, Debbie Lloyd, who recounted how she was compelled to seek for the severed tip of the actor’s finger after his combat with Heard in Australia in March 2015.
“I keep in mind in search of his finger within the downstairs space,” Lloyd stated in a pre-recorded deposition. “The home was a large number.”
The circumstances surrounding the actor’s hand damage are nonetheless being hotly debated.
Lloyd testified that she has heard that Heard threw a bottle of vodka at her husband, or that Depp injured his finger by slamming it with a telephone.
Depp’s former non-public physician David Kipper said in his personal deposition in February that his affected person informed emergency room docs in Australia that he sliced his digit with a knife.
Depp texted Kipper after the incident, for which he in the end wanted to get surgical procedure, saying: “I minimize the highest of my center finger off… What ought to I do!?? Besides, after all, go to a hospital…. I’m so embarrassed for leaping into something together with her… F–Okay THE WORLD!!! JD.”
Greater than every week after his emergency go to to the hospital, Depp once more texted Kipper, saying: “Thanks for all the pieces. I've chopped off my left center finger as a reminder that I ought to by no means minimize my finger off once more!! I like you, brother. Johnny.”
Heard has denied inflicting the damage on Depp and claimed that the “Cry-Child” star harm his finger after a wild three-day drug bender.
“On the third day of Johnny staying awake with out sleeping, I got here downstairs to search out quite a few messages Johnny had written to me round the home, on the partitions and on my garments, written in a mix of oil paint and the blood from his damaged and severed finger. Johnny additionally urinated all around the home,” the actress stated in a earlier assertion.
Final week, jurors watched a video deposition of Laurel Anderson, Heard and Depp’s former therapist, who testified that the couple was engaged in “mutual abuse.”
“It was some extent of delight to her if she felt disrespected to provoke a combat,” the therapist stated of Heard.
Heard would additionally quite be in a combat with Depp than see him go away, and “would strike him to maintain him there,” Anderson stated.
The therapist recalled a time when Heard informed her that Depp “was ‘stepping up,’ as she would say, on plenty of medication.”
“And he or she slapped him as a result of he was being incoherent and speaking about being with one other girl,” Anderson stated. She famous that Depp’s mom was within the hospital on the time.
Anderson stated Depp informed her that Heard “gave nearly as good as she bought.” She additionally stated that in not less than one session by which she noticed Heard alone, the actress informed her that Depp hit her. She stated Heard confirmed her bruises, each in photographs and in individual.
Anderson stated Heard additionally informed her that Depp at one level allegedly stated, “Nobody likes you. You’re getting fame from me. I’m falling out of affection with you. You’re a whore.”
Anderson additionally stated Heard’s “jackhammer model of speaking” and behavior of reducing off Depp overwhelmed him.
Heard “needed to need to divorce” but in addition didn’t, and was nonetheless determining what to do, Anderson stated. “She cherished him. He cherished her. She wasn’t silly. She knew that what they have been doing wasn’t wholesome.”
The well-known couple tied the knot in 2015 and break up up in 2017.
Heard is predicted to testify on the defamation trial, scheduled for six weeks, together with actors Paul Bettany and James Franco and Tesla founder Elon Musk.
Depp’s libel lawsuit towards the writer of the Solar newspaper within the UK two years in the past failed.
The actor sued Information Group Newspapers over a 2018 article that referred to him as a “spouse beater,” however a UK choose sided with the publication, saying it had offered ample proof of Depp’s violent conduct towards Heard on 14 events.
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