Amber Heard has insisted she had visible injuries on her face the day after her former husband Johnny Depp allegedly assaulted her in their Los Angeles penthouse and their marriage finally fell apart.
Giving evidence for a second day at the high court in London, Heard was asked to explain why other witnesses could not see any signs of bruises, cuts or marks on her in the days after the alleged attack on 21 May 2016.
Depp, 57, is suing the Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an article that called him a “wife beater” and referred to “overwhelming evidence” that he had attacked Heard.
Depp denies ever hitting Heard, 34, who has submitted details of 14 occasions during their relationship when she claims he assaulted her.
Asked by Eleanor Laws QC, representing NGN, why staff who lived in their building and Depp’s friends gave evidence that they could see no injuries, Heard said: “I can’t explain why Depp’s lifelong friends and employees [said that].”
Heard said that she was wearing makeup, which may have covered up the injuries in the days after the alleged violence. “Whenever I leave the house, I wear makeup,” she added.
The hearing was shown a video of Heard meeting the actor James Franco the day after the incident. “He saw my face and said: ‘Oh my God what’s happened to you,’” Heard recalled. “He said: ‘What the fuck.’”
In a statement made in February and released this week, Heard said: “While these proceedings are not brought against me personally, they are directed at the veracity of my allegation of domestic violence.
“I am astounded that years after our divorce agreement was concluded, I continue to have to answer his continued harassment and bullying, and I continue to be blamed by him for a mess of his own making.
“Although I am not being sued personally in this claim, I feel that the action is very much aimed at me because Johnny is using it as a platform to repeat his false allegations that I lied about my experience of domestic violence in an attempt to address his perceived loss of his reputation at my expense, which I find very upsetting.”
Heard denied she used to drink two bottles of wine a day, as has been alleged. “That’s just not true, although of course I drank more than him during the brief periods when he was sober. If he was sober, then to be respectful, I would usually check with him that it was OK for me to drink wine in front of him.”
She said she hid her injuries for the early part of their marriage. “Throughout the relationship, others noticed I had cuts and bruises,” her statement explained.
“I made excuses. People asked me: ‘Is he hitting you?’ I would deflect it; I wasn’t sharing it with people because I was trying to protect him and our relationship – and to protect myself from the humiliation that I felt about anyone knowing that I would allow this to happen to me. I became an expert in covering up the bruises and injuries. Later in the relationship, it became impossible to hide.”
Asked whether she had an affair with the businessman Elon Musk while she was married to Depp, Heard denied she had been involved with him until after they broke up in 2016.
Depp accused Heard of having affairs with all of her co-stars, she has told the court, including James Franco, Eddie Redmayne, Channing Tatum, Billy Bob Thornton and Kevin Costner. He had nicknames for those he considered a “sexual threat”, she added, such as “pumpkin head” for Leonardo DiCaprio and “potato head” for Channing Tatum.
Heard denied she left excrement on her own bed on the day after their relationship ended or that any of her friends had been responsible. “It was disgusting. I can’t fathom what adult would do such a thing. I don’t think it’s funny. I don’t think it’s a prank. I can’t imagine what human being would have a sense of humour like that other than Johnny.”
Heard has suggested the mess may have come from their pet Yorkshire terrier, Boo. The court earlier heard that Boo was not entirely house-trained and one time had eaten a bag of Depp’s cannabis that was left lying around.
Heard admitted that she did once hit Depp in order to prevent him hurting her sister, Whitney, and pushing her down some stairs. In cross-examination on Tuesday, Heard explained the incident in their LA penthouse in March 2015.
“I did strike Johnny that day,” she told the court, “in defence of my sister.” Whitney, she said, was standing at the top of a staircase in their apartment. “I had heard that he had pushed a former girlfriend, I think it was Kate Moss, down the stairs. And I thought of that at the moment and I reacted in defence of her [Whitney].
“For years I had never hit him back. I would never forget this incident”.
The hearing continues.
source https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/21/amber-heard-insists-she-had-visible-injuries-after-alleged-johnny-depp-attack
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