Heard recounts sexual assault
Actress Amber Heard riveted the jury at her defamation trial Thursday with explosive testimony claiming multiple incidents of physical violence at the hands of ex-husband Johnny Depp — including a brutal sexual assault with a vodka bottle.
Heard fought back tears as she described the alleged assault by Depp at a home they shared in Australia in 2015.
“I’m on the countertop, he had me by the neck,” Heard said on the witness stand. “I just remember being really still, not wanting to move.”
Heard said Depp held her down while shoving a liquor bottle into her vagina and threatening to kill her.
“’I’ll f---ing kill you,’ that’s what he said over and over,” Heard testified at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia.
The actress said her arms and feet were also bruised during the attack. She said that before the bottle assault, Depp threw her into a makeshift table, which collapsed when he climbed on top of her.
Heard testified that when she awoke the next morning, she realized Depp had not slept and instead apparently embarked on a whirlwind tour of destruction through the residence. She said she saw incoherent messages, written in blood and paint, on the walls and on various objects in the house.
“I remember I made him coffee. As soon as I handed it to him he threw it at the TV and started screaming again,” Heard said. The couple eventually called Depp’s security team and multiple nurses.
According to Heard’s testimony, that was far from the first time Depp attacked her. She claimed that Depp struck her in the face after accusing her of flirting with a woman at the 2014 Met Gala in New York City.
“We get back to the hotel room, and Johnny shoves me and kind of grabs me by the collarbone area. … I think at that point, while we were still in the living room, I shoved him back, but I don’t really recall too many specifics,” Heard told the sevenmember jury.
“I remember he threw a bottle at me. It missed me but it broke the chandelier. … At some point, Johnny and I are in a struggle in the living room, and he kind of, like, shoves me down on the sofa,” Heard claimed.
“At some point he just whacks me in the face. I think that was the first time that I was like, ‘Is this a broken nose?’”
Heard claimed another 2014 incident occurred aboard a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, saying Depp became upset after she told him she had a romantic scene with actor James Franco in the movie “The Adderall Diaries.”
Heard claimed Depp slapped her in the face before kicking her in the back, which she says forced her to the floor.
“You could hear a pin drop on that plane,” Heard said. “You could feel the tension, but no one did anything. I just remember feeling so embarrassed.
Felt so embarrassed that he could kick me to the ground in front of people, and more embarrassing, I didn’t know what to do about it.”
Depp said he never hit Heard during his testimony last month, and denied blacking out during that flight from Boston to L.A.
The actor sued Heard over a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” She didn’t name Depp in the piece.