Amber Heard has told London's High Court she punched her ex-husband Johnny Depp because she feared he would push her sister downstairs, as she alleged he had done to his former girlfriend, model Kate Moss.
Key points:
- Johnny Depp is suing The Sun newspaper and its publisher over a 2018 article that labelled him a "wife beater"
- Amber Heard says ex-husband Depp beat her and threatened to kill her
- Last week Depp told London's High Court the allegations were untrue
Ms Heard, 34, is giving evidence on behalf of The Sun newspaper whose publisher, News Group Newspapers, is being sued by Mr Depp for libel over a 2018 article which labelled him a "wife beater".
She says the 57-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star attacked her on at least 14 occasions, threatening many times to kill her, and that he slapped, punched, head-butted and kicked her during violent, jealous outbursts brought on by excessive drinking or drug-taking.
Mr Depp denies hitting Ms Heard, and says the claims are a hoax and that he was the victim of her assaults.
On her second day in the witness box, Ms Heard was questioned about an incident in March 2015 when she hit Mr Depp during an argument at their Los Angeles penthouse, saying it was the first time she stood up to him.
She told the court she believed Mr Depp was about to push her sister Whitney down the stairs.
She said that memory had come to her in "a flash" and she reacted to defend her sister.
Mr Depp's lawyer Eleanor Laws said this was the first time that Ms Heard had mentioned any recollection of the alleged Moss incident, saying it had not appeared in any of her previous statements or legal declarations.
The lawyer also put it to Ms Heard that Mr Depp could not have grabbed her hair with one hand and punched her with the other during the clash, because one hand was in a cast, caused during another incident between the couple in Australia a few weeks earlier.
Ms Heard said Mr Depp had struck her with the cast, prompting Ms Laws to query why she had never stated this allegation before either.
"You are just making this up as you go along," the lawyer said.
Ms Heard replied: "I didn't include every detail or every thought."
The court was played audio recordings of the couple discussing other arguments during which Mr Depp was heard accusing his ex-wife of punching him and throwing pots and pans at him.
Ms Heard said she had only ever acted in self-defence, saying if she contradicted him he would become violent.
Heard denies leaving excrement in bed, Musk affair
Ms Heard also denied that either she or her friends were responsible for leaving faeces in the bed of a penthouse the day after a row following her 30th birthday party.
The court has previously heard a cleaner found the excrement and that Mr Depp said Ms Heard or a friend had done it as a prank.
"Of course not, it's absolutely disgusting," she said, suggesting Mr Depp's dog might be to blame as it had a bowel problem after eating a bag of cannabis as a puppy.
"I do not think it's funny."
Earlier Ms Heard denied she had an affair with Tesla chief Elon Musk, or anyone else, while she was married to Mr Depp.
She says Mr Depp had accused her of having relationships with numerous co-stars and had become enraged with jealousy which led to violence.
The court was told that Ms Heard had exchanged text messages with Mr Musk in May 2016 after one occasion on which she says Mr Depp had become violent, and injured her eye and cheek by throwing a phone at her.
She said she had not been in communication with the Tesla chief until 2016.
The court was also shown closed circuit TV footage of Ms Heard taking actor James Franco up to the penthouse the following evening.
The judge, Andrew Nicol, told Mr Depp's lawyer Eleanor Laws he did not find such evidence about jealousy helpful in reaching his final conclusion.
Ms Laws said staff at the penthouse and other friends had told the court they had not seen any marks or injuries in the days after the incident.
Ms Heard said she did have visible injuries.
She is due to give evidence over four days and the trial is set to conclude next week, although no ruling is expected immediately.
Reuters
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2020-07-21 17:20:00Z
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