Emotional Heard says Depp fans want to kill her
Amber Heard says she has received thousands of death threats during the “agonising” defamation trial between her and former husband Johnny Depp.
“I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day,” the 36-year-old said on the final day of witness testimony in the blockbuster trial taking place in Fairfax, Virginia, near the US capital.
Heard said she had been the target of a social media campaign by “millions” of fans of Depp and that she suffered panic attacks, nightmares and trauma.
“People want to kill me and they tell me so every day,” she told the jury, tearing up at times, her voice breaking.
The six-week trial has been attended daily by fans of Depp. Judge Penney Azcarate threatened to expel the spectators at one point during Heard’s emotional testimony on Thursday (local time).
Heard’s testimony came a day after Depp took the stand and said it had been “unimaginably brutal” to listen to his ex-wife’s “heinous” and “outlandish” accusations of domestic abuse.
“No human being is perfect, certainly not, none of us, but I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse,” the 58-year-old Depp said.
Closing arguments are to take place on Friday (local time), after which the case will go to jury.