The Aquaman actress took to the stand on day 14 of the defamation case, held at Fairfax County Courtroom, and testified about their relationship.
She spoke about an alleged incident in March 2013, throughout which she says Depp had consumed a copious quantity of cocaine and alcohol.
‘He has the window down, he’s smoking…in some unspecified time in the future he begins howling out of the window and grabs two small canines – one was Johnny’s canine and one was my canine,’ she stated.
‘He grabs this teacup Yorkie and holds Boo out of the window of the transferring automobile and he’s howling like an animal whereas holding the canine out of the window.
‘Everybody within the automobile – I’ll always remember it – everybody simply froze. Nobody did something. And I too was, like, torn as to what to do as a result of I didn’t wish to do something to trigger him to react, drop the canine.
‘It was simply this eerie second the place he’s howling and holding this canine outdoors the automobile window and greater than that bizarre reminiscence, I've a reminiscence of everybody simply sort of not likely reacting to him.’
Elsewhere in Heard’s testimony, she received emotional as she recalled Depp allegedly performing a cavity search on her, and slapping her after she laughed at his tattoo.
She additionally defined that the trial had been ‘essentially the most painful and tough factor I’ve gone via’.
‘I battle to have the phrases to explain how painful that is,’ she informed the court docket.
‘That is horrible for me to take a seat right here for weeks and relive all the pieces, (to) hear people who I knew – some effectively, some not, my ex-husband with whom I shared a life – discuss our lives in the best way that they've.
‘This essentially the most painful and tough factor I’ve gone via for certain.’
Whereas on the stand, Heard, 36, recalled an incident in 2013 wherein she alleged that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 58, allegedly turned bodily.
Talking in regards to the incident, she claimed Depp slapped her 3 times after she ‘laughed’ about one among his tattoos, studying Wino.
‘(It was) seemingly so silly and insignificant, I'll always remember it, it modified my life,’ she continued.
‘He slapped me throughout the face, and I laughed as a result of I didn’t know what else to do.
‘I believed this should be a joke… I didn’t know what was occurring. I didn’t need this to be the truth.’
‘I do know you don’t come again from that, I’m not dumb, you may’t hit a lady, you may’t hit a person, you may’t hit anybody,’ she stated.
‘I knew it was mistaken and I knew that I needed to go away him and that broke my coronary heart as a result of I didn’t wish to go away him… the perfect factor that ever occurred to me.
‘I want I may sit right here and say I stood up and I walked out of that home and I drew a line and I stood up for myself.
‘I used to be simply trying on the soiled carpet making an attempt to will myself to rise up, to stroll out of the door.’
Heard informed the court docket that Depp then received down on his knees in tears, and was filled with apologies about what had occurred, vowing that he had ‘put the monster away’.
She stated that he apologised ‘profusely’ within the following days.
Depp is suing Heard for defamation over an op-ed she wrote in 2018 and is searching for $50million (£39m) in damages.
Though he was not named within the Washington Submit piece, his workforce argued that it implies he was bodily and sexually abusive in the direction of her – one thing he has denied.
The case started final month and is believed to proceed for a number of extra weeks.
The trial continues.
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