The testimony ended Thursday in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation case with Heard telling jurors he suffers minute-by-minute harassment, including death threats, and daily traumas that require special “rules” in his life to prevent heart attacks. anxiety.
“My friends have to live with a set of tacit rules on how they can touch me,” the 36-year-old Aquaman actor told the court in what was the last roll of the hearing in the long-term case.
Heard said he just wanted “Johnny to leave me alone.”
At Heard’s last appearance in the courtroom, she was asked how it had been for her during the trial and had to deal with allegations by Depp’s press officer that her statement abuse by the actor was a “deception”.
“I’m harassed, threatened, humiliated … every day,” Heard said. “People want to kill me and tell me. Every day. People want to put my baby in the microwave. They tell me. Johnny threatened – he promised me – that if he never left him, he would make him think of him every day he lived.
In a tense interrogation by Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, Heard was questioned about an alleged notice on the TMZ show’s gossip site before appearing in a Los Angeles court to file a restraining order and a video he made of Depp hitting kitchen cabinets and pouring a “mega pint” of wine.
In both cases, Heard said, she did not know who had sent the information. On Wednesday, a former TMZ reporter, Morgan Tremaine, said he had been warned of the site and had been “trying to catch Amber coming out of court and an alleged bruise on the right side of his face.”
In another exchange, Vasquez challenged Heard about an apparent lack of bruises on his face in several photographs taken shortly after an alleged incident in which Heard described Depp hitting her.
Heard said he was wearing makeup and replied, “Yes [the photo] it was taken as you pictured, then obviously I have a bruise on my face. It’s covered in makeup, as usual. “
Heart’s lawyers asked him if he had ever faked bruises and / or altered photos documenting Depp’s alleged abuse during their relationship.
“Absolutely not,” Heard said.
Asked about her reaction to the claim that she had committed a “deception”, she said that Depp “promised me that he would ruin me. He would ruin my career and take my life. Death was the only way out, and if I go out, that’s what I would do. He promised me global humiliation, “he said.
“The harassment and humiliation, the campaign against me that echoes every day on social media, and now in front of the cameras in the showroom, I have to relive the trauma every day,” Heard said, struggling against tears. “Maybe it’s easy to forget that I’m a human being.”
Heard, who has been booed by street spectators as she walks in and out of court, said she hopes the lawsuit will allow her to regain her “voice” and said she had “the right as an American” to publish Washington. 2018. She publishes an article describing herself as a domestic abuse survivor.
“Johnny has taken enough of my voice,” he said. “I have a right to tell my story.”
Heard has testified more than a dozen incidents of physical abuse he claims to have suffered at the hands of Depp. Depp claims she was the aggressor in the relationship and has denied ever hitting her.
Lawyers for both parties will present their final arguments on Friday and Judge Azcarate will give deliberative instructions to the jurors.