Amber Heard says “people want to kill me” after a former TMZ employee makes a bomb claim

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After the controversial defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, the jury took a photo of the actress’s injured face and in 2016 her husband at the time cupboard. I heard from a former TMZ employee who claims to have leaked a video that hit him.

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The Pirates of the Caribbean Star, 58, is suing Hard for $ 50 million. victim domestic Abuse in the Washington Post 2018 editorial.. The 36-year-old Haad counterclaimed for $ 100 million, claiming that Depp had defiled her when her lawyer stated that her claim was “abuse.” hoax.“

Despite TMZ’s attempt to block testimony, Morgan Tremaine sent a camera team to take a picture of Hard leaving the Los Angeles courthouse after issuing a temporary detention order in May 2016. I made it clear.

“Their purpose was to catch her leaving the court. She stopped in some way, turned to the camera and displayed a bruise on the right side of her face,” he said.

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Tremaine, who worked as a field producer for a celebrity news agency, also said he received a video footage shown early in the trial when Depp was seen screaming and beating the cabinet. The Hard defense team used the video as evidence to depict patterns of his abusive behavior in their relationship.

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Tremaine said he didn’t know how the outlet received the clip, but hinted that it was from Hard or someone near her.

“We downloaded it and warned the web editor. Then the news producer instructed us to place a bumper and a bug. It puts Dan, Dan, Dan and copyrights. Overlapping the translucent watermarks shown. Owned. “

According to Tremaine, the only way TMZ could get the copyright so quickly was if it was shot by itself, transferred from its original owner, or purchased. However, it can still take some time to “widely verify” that the content provider actually owns the content, and TMZ released a kitchen cabinet video in about 15 minutes. Revealed.

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However, Tremaine testified that the clip received in August 2016 was edited where the snicker was seen removed from the footage.

“The first thing I played here was where Mr. Hard seemed to set up the camera and put it in place. And finally, he looked a bit like a snicker and was looking at the camera. There is. That part did not exist in what we received. “

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Hard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, sought to argue that Tremaine sought part of the trial to gain some attention. “This will give you 15 minutes of fame, right?”

“We can say the same thing for you by hiring Amber Heard as a client,” Tremaine counterattacked.

Depp also refuted Kate Moss’s testimony from Hard, who mentioned “rumors” during his appearance on the stand that the actor “pushed” the model down the stairs during a trip to Jamaica in the 1990s. I returned to the stand.

“MS. I heard what I heard and turned it into a very ugly case, all in her mind,” he said. “There was no moment when Kate was pushed down the stairs.”

He called the allegations of hard abuse as follows:terrible, Ridiculous, HumiliationStupid, pain, Savage. “

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Depp said he sued Hard, despite losing the 2020 defamation trial in Britain. Sun For calling him “wife’s beater” to reveal his name.

“No matter what happened, I got here, and I told the truth, and I talked about what I had been reluctantly carrying for six years,” he said.

Depp also challenged Hard’s claim that he consumed 8-10 MDMA pills during a single battle in Australia in 2015. “There is no doubt that I will die,” Depp jokingly said. “I think people die. Probably pretty quick.”

In response to a graphic text message sent by the actor to a friend, Depp said: You will wonder why this person is doing this to me. “

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A photo of the 2015 honeymoon on the Orient Express was also shown to a jury who appeared to have black eyes on Depp.

“I see something that looks like a pretty decent glow and a scratched nose,” he told the jury about the image that concludes his testimony by telling the jury that he “never” abused Hard. ..

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On Thursday, a jury heard from Dr. Richard Gilbert, who upheld Depp’s allegation that he lost part of his fingertips when Hard was allegedly throwing a bottle of vodka at him.

“I do believe that bottles of vodka thrown away will result in this fracture and loss of soft tissue,” he said.

Forensic psychologist Dr. Dawn Hughes was also recalled by a hard team to impress the jury that the actress did not forge the symptoms of PTSD.

He also returned to the stand on Thursday and said in tears, “I don’t deserve this … I can’t have a career … I can’t associate people with me.”

She said she had received hundreds of murder threats and “ridiculous” jokes against her testimony. “People want to kill me,” she said.

“It was painful, painful, humiliating … I just want Johnny to leave me alone,” she continued. “I have the right to my voice and name.”

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Elsewhere, Hard told Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez that she didn’t edit the cupboard video and she expected widespread support for the embarrassed ex.

“I know a lot of people come out of woodwork to help Johnny,” she said.

Closing arguments for the trial are scheduled for Friday.

mdaniell@postmedia.com