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LOS ANGELES - Depp’s attorneys introduced photographs of Heard making public appearances on red carpets and The James Corden Show shortly after times that she said Depp had struck her with his hands, on which he usually wore heavy rings.

The pictures shown to jurors appeared to reveal no injuries. Heard said the harm, which included what she thought was a broken nose, was not severe enough to be visible or was covered up by makeup.

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for US$50 million, saying she defamed him when she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse. Heard has countersued for US$100 million, arguing that Depp smeared her by calling her a liar.

At the start of the cross-examination of Heard, Depp’s attorney asked Heard if she had abused Depp and was further harming him with false allegations. “I could never hurt Johnny,” Heard said.

Earlier, Heard told jurors that she filed for divorce from Depp in 2016, because she worried she would not survive the physical abuse by him. She said she realised the relationship was beyond repair after he threw a cellphone that hit her in the face. “I knew I had to leave him,” she said. “I knew I wouldn’t survive it if I didn’t. I made the decision to file for divorce,” she added. “It was hard because I loved Johnny so much.”

The pair wed in February 2015, and their divorce was finalised about two years later.

Heard said the trial had forced her to live “over and over again the most intimate, embarrassing, deeply humiliating and personal things that I’ve survived,” reports AFP.

“I want to move on, and I want Johnny to move on,” she said. “I just want him to leave me alone.”