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Heard’s team has changed their mind about Johnny Depp’s testimony

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According to a source close to Amber Heard, her team will not call Johnny Depp to the stand in the high-profile trial’s final days.

Ms. Heard’s team had planned to question Mr. Depp further on Monday, but at midday, they abruptly changed course. Mr Depp, 58, is suing his ex-wife for $50 million (£40 million) over a column she wrote in which she claimed to have been the victim of domestic abuse. Ms. Heard, 36, has filed a counterclaim.

This week is expected to be the end of the case. In the remaining days of the defamation trial, British supermodel Kate Moss, a former girlfriend of Mr Depp, is expected to testify.

Ms Heard’s team called several witnesses, including psychologist David Spiegel, to testify in court on Monday in Fairfax, Virginia.

Mr. Depp, according to Dr. Spiegel, “has behaviours that are consistent with both someone who has substance use disorder and someone who is a perpetrator of intimate partner violence.” Dr. Spiegel told jurors that 40-60% of intimate partner violence is committed while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.

On cross-examination, Mr. Depp’s lawyers tried to discredit this testimony by pointing out that Dr. Spiegel reached his conclusions without speaking with Mr. Depp.

On Monday, a hand surgeon testified that Mr Depp’s finger was unlikely to have been cut in the way he described during a fight with Ms Heard in Australia.

When Ms Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, Mr Depp claims the tip of his middle finger was severed. Dr. Richard Moore told the jury that the damage to Mr. Depp’s finger was more consistent with being pinched by a closing door.

At the time of the accident, Dr Moore did not examine Mr Depp physically. Mr Depp’s team is expected to rest its case early this week, giving Ms Heard’s team one last chance to persuade the jury.

Mr Depp, according to Ms Heard, was prone to alcohol and drug binges, was easily triggered by jealousy, and was frequently consumed by violent rages.

Mr Depp, for his part, claimed he was a victim of Ms Heard’s erratic behaviour, telling jurors he was subjected to her verbal, emotional, and physical abuse on a regular basis.

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Amber Heard In Her Testimony: “I Filed For Divorce From Johnny Depp Because…”

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On Monday, Amber Heard testified that she filed for divorce from “monster” Johnny Depp in May 2016 because she was afraid for her safety.
“I had to leave him,” the 36-year-old actress Heard told the jury during her former husband’s defamation trial. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to survive otherwise.”

“I was terrified it was going to end badly for me,” she explained. Heard described filing for divorce as “the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do.” “I’d tried everything I could to make this relationship work.”

“It was difficult because I adored Johnny,” she explained. “I was in love with him.”

Heard claimed that when the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star drank, he turned into a “monster,” and that her efforts to stop him from using drugs and alcohol had failed. “The monster was this thing that had become the norm rather than the exception,” she explained. “The violence had become routine.”

Heard claimed she sought a temporary restraining order the same week she filed for divorce after an argument in which Depp threw a cellphone at her, striking her in the face.

During his four days on the witness stand, the 58-year-old Depp denied ever striking Heard and claimed she was the one who was frequently violent.

Depp sued Heard in December 2018 after she wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Depp sued Heard for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages. Heard, who had a starring role in “Aquaman,” did not name Depp in the op-ed.

Heard, who was born in Texas, countersued for $100 million, claiming she had been subjected to “rampant physical violence and abuse” at his hands.

Heard also testified about an incident that occurred while the couple was vacationing in France at a chateau.

She claimed they were watching a pre-release trailer for “London Fields,” in which the filmmakers had “unbeknownst to me” included a sex scene involving a body double.

She explained, “Johnny freaked out because it looked like me.” “So I have an extremely envious man who is already angry with me for breaking the rule that I must have a sex scene.

“It wasn’t me, I’m telling him. That scene was not shot by me “she said. “He was enraged, and among other things, he called me a liar and a whore.

She said Depp punched her in the jaw and slapped her across the face.

On Monday, Heard’s lawyers are expected to finish questioning her before handing her over to Depp’s legal team for cross-examination.

Judge Penney Azcarate has scheduled the case’s closing arguments for May 27, after which it will be decided by a jury. Depp’s lawyers have called experts to testify that he has lost millions as a result of the allegations, including a $22.5 million payday for the sixth instalment of “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Depp filed the defamation suit in the United States after losing a separate libel case against The Sun in London in November 2020 for calling him a “wife-beater.”Depp and Heard, a three-time Oscar nominee, met on the set of “The Rum Diary” in 2009 and married in February 2015. Two years later, their divorce was finalised.

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Depp and Heard’s marriage ended in “mutual abuse”

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The couple engaged in “mutual abuse” during the final months of their stormy marriage, according to Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s former couples therapist.

On the third day of the $50 million (£38 million) defamation trial in Virginia, jurors were shown video testimony from Dr. Laurel Anderson. Mr. Depp has filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife for a story she wrote in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic violence. He denies any wrongdoing. Ms. Heard counterclaimed for $100 million.

Ms Anderson said she saw the famous couple for several therapy sessions between October and December 2015, according to testimony recorded in February and played for jurors on Thursday. After only 15 months of marriage, Ms Heard filed for divorce in May 2016. Mr. Depp and Ms. Heard had a tense relationship, according to the psychotherapist, with both threatening to walk out of sessions during arguments.

Ms Heard reported physical assault at the hands of her then-husband in sessions where Mr Depp was not present, Ms Anderson said. Ms Heard testified that she once came to her office with several small bruises on her face.

Ms Heard initiated violent interactions on several occasions in an attempt to keep Mr Depp from leaving, according to Ms Anderson. “It was a point of pride for her to initiate a fight if she felt disrespected,” Ms Anderson told jurors. “She would strike him to keep him there if he was going to leave her to de-escalate the fight; she would rather be in a fight than have him leave.”

Mr Depp’s therapy sessions were frequently interrupted by Ms Heard, according to Ms Anderson. “Ms Heard talked like a jackhammer,” the clinical psychologist said. “She was pumped up to the max. He struggled to speak at a similar rate. He was frequently cut off.”

Both Ms Heard and Mr Depp’s families have a history of domestic violence, according to Ms Anderson. Ms. Heard claimed that her father abused her, and Mr. Depp claimed that his mother abused him.

Mr Depp had been “well controlled” for decades before meeting Ms Heard, according to Ms Anderson, and had never harmed previous partners. “He was triggered by Ms Heard. They were abusing each other, in my opinion.”

Ms. Heard’s 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post, in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse,” is at issue in the trial. Mr. Depp claims that the article, which does not name him, is defamatory and has harmed his career.

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