Amber Heard alleges violent honeymoon assault and blames dogs for poop

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When she returned to the stand on Monday, Amber Heard talked about more cases of alleged abuse in the hands of ex-husband Johnny Depp during a five-year relationship.

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I heard a former spouse return to a jury in a Virginia court broadcasting their dirty laundry in an ongoing defamation case.

During his honeymoon on the Orient Express in July 2015, Haad said the train journey was peaceful until Depp wanted to drink “brown alcohol.”

“We were on this train and we were on the train last night. Johnny and I discussed that he was allowed to drink,” Hard said. “Johnny slammed me on his face … and pushed me against the wall … he was pushing my neck against the railcar.”

She continued. “I remember looking down at him trying to take my hand off my neck and thinking,’He may not be going to kill me.’ He was standing on the ground and he was I was a little above him when I was biting … at some point I remember him tearing the top of my shirt. I exposed my chest. “

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Then he tore the shirt and wrapped it around her neck, she told the jury.

“That’s the way I woke up,” she said. “I woke up with it still around my neck and a huge knot behind my head.”

I heard that I wrote in my diary what happened the next morning that night.

“It was a violent, chaotic, and sometimes affectionate relationship,” she revealed to evoke the word “sofa” during some of their fights. “That was our safe word,” she said. “It meant a truce.”

The following month, she claimed, after the couple’s short honeymoon was shaken by Depp’s continued substance abuse. Hard recalled her anxiety about what she said she was considering doing her acting job on the other side of James Franco.

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She also talked about how Depp reacted when she screened her movie. London Fields For him who involved the sex scene played in the body double.

“Johnny slapped me … another moment he slapped me on his chin,” she said. “I jumped into the furniture of this old church. I thought I had a concussion.”

On her laptop I heard, there was a folder labeled “JD isn’t fun”, which included a photo of her at a red carpet event and introduced her when revealing her outfit. was doing.

The jury also heard audio from the couple’s fight and a short video of Depp shouting “I’ll show you crazy!”.

“You are not a mother,” Depp heard screaming in another exchange. “You don’t exist!”

She was afraid, so I heard she recorded the fight. “I was scared that he didn’t remember.”

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The Aquaman The actress also claimed that Depp was prone to self-harm during their fight. “He did that often. I was about to call 911 in August 2014 because I thought he was (hurting myself),” she said. “He often sucked blood superficially … he put a cigarette on himself and most of the time he did it screaming at me.”

Elsewhere, the jury was shown hard photos at various movie premieres allegedly showing scars allegedly attacked by Depp in Australia in March 2015. Magic microphone The movies I was in, those are the scars on my body. … You can see the wound on my arm from that attack, ”she said.

When another photo was displayed from another red carpet, she said:

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A photo of her injured face after Depp threw a phone at her was also included in the evidence. “The bruise on my face healed faster than the bruise on my body,” she said.

“My perception was that no matter what I did … what I didn’t do made a difference … what I didn’t do calmed him down. What version of Johnny I was always juggling, maybe I was dealing with it. “

I also heard that Depp grabbed his pubis and hit his chest on the night of his 30th birthday party. She also talked about the infamous poop found in her couple’s couple’s bed in April 2016.

Sterling Jenkins, a member of Depp’s security team, claimed that the poop had heard that “the terrible prank didn’t work.”

However, Hard maintained her claim that it was Depp’s dog Boo who defecated in their bed. “She was eating Johnny’s weeds when she was a puppy and had bowel problems … control problems,” Hard said. She added that the puppy liked to dig holes in the sheets and sometimes had an accident in bed.

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Then, even as a joke, I heard a clear denial of “dropping moody things” on their beds. “I don’t think it’s funny,” she said. “My life has collapsed and I was hit by my 30th birthday … I don’t think it’s weird. I don’t like it.”

The ongoing court story is Edward Scissorhands The star fainted after swallowing drugs, alcohol and text messages that Oscar candidate talked about violating her “burnt corpse”.

Hard argued that Depp’s behavior became increasingly unstable in the early months of 2016 as the relationship took care towards its inevitable end. “He was talking to people who weren’t there … people who weren’t in the room,” she said. “He would tell me there was a conversation with him that I didn’t have. It was scary.”

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At some point, she claimed that when he thought he saw a man beside her, he broke the board next to her face.

“Johnny was behaving scary,” Hard said.

Haad told the jury that police were called many times early in their relationship because of the uproar in their dwellings.

“I wanted to believe that I stayed undisturbed early in the relationship. It’s embarrassing to say that,” she said.

As she prepares to be cross-examined, the representative of Hard Toronto sun Her team expects Depp’s lawyer to “beat the victims” rather than “claim the facts.”

“There’s an old saying by a court lawyer. When the facts are on your side, claim the facts. When the facts aren’t on your side, beat the podium,” said the person in charge. “We are afraid that it will be the equal part of shame and despair, and the overwhelming proof, the truth, is not on Depp’s side.”

Depp sues his ex-wife for defamation in the Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an editorial article. Washington post In 2018, he calls himself a “public figure representing domestic violence.”

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