Amber Heard’s sister testified and said she had witnessed Johnny Depp’s abuse directly-nationwide.

Amber Heard’s sister testified Wednesday that she found herself in the midst of a battle between her sister and Johnny Depp in a troubled relationship.

Whitney Hard Henriques was the first witness to testify in a five-week civil trial that he personally witnessed Depp hitting Hard. Depp testified that he had never hit hard.

Henriques testified that the fight had taken place in March 2015, a month after Depp and Haad’s wedding, when Haad found evidence that Depp had already been in extramarital negotiations.

Henriquez said the drunken Depp blamed Hard for driving him into an out-of-marriage encounter.

At some point, she said she was sandwiched between Depp and Hard and rushed down the stairs to confront Hard. Henriquez said she was struck behind, and Hard furiously “landed” on Depp, and Henriquez got stuck between the two.

One of Depp’s bodyguards intervened to disband the battle, but “by that time Johnny had already grabbed Amber’s hair with one hand and repeatedly hit her with the other,” Henriquez said. Said.

Henriquez said she was the only one who personally witnessed physical assault. But she said she saw the aftermath of other battles, including a hard bruise.

She said she has the nickname “Marriage Counselor” because of her frequent efforts to mediate the debate between Hard and Depp.

“Obviously not very good,” she said of the mediation effort.

But she admitted in cross-examination that she sometimes supported Depp in their dispute, and she wanted to keep the couple together, even after she saw her sister physically attacked. I said I worked.

“If my sister still wanted to be with Johnny, I was going to support her if I could help it in some way. I was going there for her.” She said.

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Henriques once admitted that Depp even joked in a text message that he should hit hard, but she said she didn’t really understand what her sister was experiencing at the time.

Henriques also talked about Depp’s actions at Hard’s 30th birthday party in April 2016. This is one of the last battles between couples. She said people took turns sharing Herard’s favorite memories. Depp, who arrived late and was obsessed with the party, decided to talk about when she first met Hard when she auditioned for the movie. “She sat on the couch and her perfect ass left a perfect mark on the couch.”

“We were all a little embarrassed,” Henriquez said.

In a 2018 editorial in The Washington Post, Depp accused defamation at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia and described himself as a “public figure representing domestic violence.” His lawyer says he has defamed him in the article, even though his name was not mentioned.

Also on Wednesday, a friend of Hard testified that he had seen bruises and cuts left in the aftermath of multiple incidents of abuse caused by Depp.

In a recorded testimony record taken for the jury, Raquel Pennington said he had never personally witnessed Depp’s strike. But after her fight, she said she saw her injury and heard Depp hit her head and broke her nose, she took a hard face photo in December 2015. ..

In the photo, the nose is swollen, the lips are cut, and the hard face has two moderately black eyes.

She also took a picture of the hair she said was torn from her hard scalp.

Pennington, one of the many witnesses whose testimony was previously recorded, heard that “often had to cover her face with a bruise or injury.”

Pennington said he didn’t consider himself a current hard friend, and last year the two fell apart.

The December 2015 battle is one of several cases in dispute. The jury saw a photo of Pennington recording his injury, but also watched a video of Hard’s appearance at a late-night talk show the next day, where he couldn’t see the injury.

I heard that the injury was only covered with makeup.

Pennington’s testimony came after Hard ended her time at the Witness Stand on Tuesday. This includes a two-day rigorous cross-examination in which Depp’s lawyer hard questioned the truthfulness of allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

Pennington’s testimony provides supporting evidence for some of the alleged attacks. In addition to the December 2015 incident, Pennington said he had a cut on his hard leg when he returned from his trip to Australia in March 2015. Glass from the attack.

And Pennington, who lived in a penthouse suite with Depp and Hard for a while, was the first to see Hard during the final battle between the couple in May 2016, when she caused the couple to divorce. said.

Pennington said she intervened between the two and Depp knocked out his hand. When Depp yelled hard to get up, she then said she covered hard with her own body on her floor. She later said she saw Depp shaking a wine bottle to break things from walls and counters and knock them out.