Editor’s note: Some testimonials contain graphic language and descriptions of sexual and physical assault.
The testimony concluded Thursday in the civil trial for a defamation suit filed by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Heard’s legal team rested after she returned to the rostrum as a witness to a summons summoned by her lawyers.
Depp is suing Heard in the $ 50 million Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia in an opinion piece he wrote in December 2018 in The Washington Post describing himself as “a public figure representing the ‘domestic abuse’. His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though he never mentioned his name. Heard is suing for $ 100 million, alleging that Depp’s lawyer defamed her by calling her allegations of abuse a hoax.
Heard said she is “harassed, humiliated, threatened every day” thanks to statements by Depp and his lawyer Adam Waldman about her.
Actor Amber Heard testifies at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia, United States, for defamation trial on May 26, 2022. SWIMMING POOL / REUTERS
“Even just entering this room, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life and the things I’ve lived used to humiliate me. People want to kill me, and they tell me every day. I want to put my baby in the microwave and they tell me that, ”he said.
Heard says she receives death threats and has mocked her testimony about being assaulted, which she described as “agonizing” and “painful.”
Depp has denied ever hitting Heard and says she was the aggressor in the relationship. Heard has testified about more than a dozen separate cases of physical abuse he claims to have suffered at the hands of Depp.
Depp’s legal team rested his case earlier in the day after calling his own rebuttal witnesses, including Depp himself.
Depp testified Wednesday and described Heard’s allegations as “crazy.”
“Ridiculous, humiliating, ridiculous, painful, savage, incredibly brutal, cruel and all false,” Depp said when asked about his reaction to Heard’s accusations when he previously testified at trial.
Both he and Heard testified extensively before the trial.
Also on Wednesday, supermodel Kate Moss, a former Depp girlfriend, denied that Depp had ever pushed or assaulted her during the course of their relationship. Heard, in his testimony, had made a reference to Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down some stairs when the two left in the 1990s.
Model Kate Moss, the ex-girlfriend of actor Johnny Depp, vowed to testify via a video link during Depp’s defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia. May 25, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters