Amber Heard recounts Depp’s streak of extreme violence

LOS ANGELES: In asking a court to dismiss Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit, actress Amber Heard has recounted suffering from his streak of extreme violence.

In extreme detail, she describes several instances of violence including one from March 2015 in which she says Depp’s attack left her “naked and barefoot, covered in alcohol and glass.”

That trip to Australia is when Depp severed the tip of his fi nger. He claims she threw a vodka bottle at him, and she says he cut it while slamming a phone against the wall. “On the third day of Johnny staying awake without sleeping, I came downstairs to fi nd numerous messages Johnny had written to me around the house, on the walls and on my clothes, written in a combination of oil paint and the blood from his broken and severed fi nger,” Heard recalls.

Depp’s security team eventually came in, she says, and he was rushed to the hospital. Back in L. A., she says friends,

To this day, I still have scars on my arms and feet from this incident.

family, co-workers and medical professionals saw the injuries to her face and body. “To this day, I still have scars on my arms and feet from this incident.”

Heard is asking a Virginia judge to throw out Depp’s US$ 50 million defamation lawsuit against her, arguing that the legal fi ght should play out in California.

In March, Depp had sued his ex-wife for defamation following her published commentary in the Washington Post that centres on domestic abuse. The piece doesn’t name Depp, but was widely interpreted as being about the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star because of previously reported violence allegations in connection with their 2016 divorce and ongoing media coverage of their volatile relationship. Depp contends Heard was the abusive one, and her allegations against him are a hoax.

On Thursday, Heard’s attorney Eric George fi led a motion to dismiss the complaint, “so that Mr Depp’s meritless claims may be tried and disposed of, once and for all, in Los Angeles, California.” As far as she knows, Heard has never stepped foot in Virginia. Plus, George argues, the alleged damage to Depp’s reputation happened in Los Angeles — where the parties and the expected witnesses live.

Heard’s fi ling states there were “dozens of violent episodes” throughout their relationship, and litigating in California would force Depp to prove early on that he has a likelihood of prevailing on his claims because of the state’s strong anti- SLAPP statute.

According to Heard’s fi ling, in December 2015 she told Depp she was going to leave him and he screamed “something like, ‘ I (expletive) will kill you’” and shoved her face into a mattress. “I worried that Johnny was in a blacked- out state and unaware of the damage he was doing, and that he could actually kill me,” states Heard’s declaration. “To this day, I do not know how the fight ended.”

Amber Heard, actress