19:02
Lunch break
The trial is taking a break and will resume in an hour.
19:02
Amber Heard: ‘Johnny Depp was mad at me for working’
Amber Heard returns to the threats of Johnny Depp, who refused to see her work on certain films. She takes the example of Magic Mike 2 (2015), sequel to a successful film set in the middle of male strippers.
“I fought with [Depp] to do the role. It was a movie with mostly male roles. He reluctantly agreed to let me do the film. I wasn’t going to play a sexualized character. I was going to wear little makeup in the film, no sexy clothes. So I was able to make the film.”
Amber Heard explains that at the time of filming, at the end of 2014, “Johnny was angry with me for working. He was furious with me. He found script pages for an audition and he exploded with rage . He told me that I didn’t ask him…” And to add: “He told me that it was my fault that Hollywood locked me in a type of role and objectiveized me.”
18:42
‘It was hell’: Amber Heard shares how she tried to detox Johnny Depp
During this period, Johnny Depp tried to cure his addictions with alcohol and marijuana to complete the filming of the film. Black Mass.
Weaned, he travels with Amber Heard to his private island in the Bahamas to recover. According to Amber Heard, his emotions were then “the yoyo”. “I was taking care of him, taking his pressure.”
Quickly, the situation becomes tense. “He was shaking and he was screaming a lot.” “One day he was so mad at me that he slapped me.” And the actress to add:
“I don’t know how to detox someone! I shouldn’t have been there. It was a really, really dumb idea. I don’t know why the doctors and nurses didn’t tell me. ‘hell.”
18:29
‘He was sorry and I believed him’: How Amber Heard and Johnny Depp reconciled
After the events that took place on the plane, Amber Heard made the decision to leave Johnny Depp. “I was surrounded by my friends and I decided to leave him. I felt helpless…”
For his part, Johnny Depp regretted his gesture. “He came to New York to fight, to make our relationship work,” says Amber Heard. “He was ashamed, he was sorry and I believed him. I got back together with him on the condition that he get treatment, go to rehab, and never go back into it.”
17:48
“I felt his boot on my back”: Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of domestic violence
Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of several acts of domestic violence. She recounts in detail the events that took place on a private flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014. Before the start, she feels that something is wrong with Johnny Depp.
“He came towards me, without saying a word. He passed in front of me, then he sat down on the armchair opposite mine. […] He reeked of alcohol and marijuana. He wanted us to talk about what had happened the day before. I should have known that I couldn’t win out of this situation.”
“He asked me lots of questions and I refused to answer. I was polite. I didn’t answer him. I moved slowly.” But Johnny Depp is particularly insistent.
The actress is then in the middle of filming with James Franco, whom Depp hates. Depp wants to know if Heard is having an affair with Franco, and he gets very jealous. “He was talking very explicitly about my body, he was saying really disgusting things to me. He was calling me a whore. This was all happening because of his assistants and bodyguards.”
Amber Heard then decides to change places, “very gently”, so as not to “irritate” Johnny Depp, who hits her in the back with his foot. “I felt his boot on my back. He had just hit me. I was against the ground, I looked at the floor of the plane long enough.” “I didn’t know what to do,” she adds.
17:28
Amber Heard takes a break from her testimony
Amber Heard, who has just testified for the second time since the start of the trial, pauses in her testimony.
The trial will resume in a few moments.
17:15
“Johnny hit me”: Ambert Heard recounts fighting with Johnny Depp at the Met Gala
Amber Heard reveals to have been struck by Johnny Depp during an edition of the Met Gala, a social event very popular in New York.
“He accused me of flirting. He thought I was casting seductive glances at a guest,” says the actress. Back home, Johnny Depp grabbed Amber Heard “by the neck”. “I think I pushed him away, I can’t remember.”
“He then threw a bottle at me. I missed him and destroyed the chandelier in the process. We fought on the sofa. He was stronger than me. Then he punched me in the face. I realized I had a broken nose. I remember it was swollen, it was losing its color, it was red.”
16:57
Amber Heard was worried about Johnny Depp offering his daughter marijuana
Amber Heard describes her relationship with Johnny Depp’s children Lily-Rose and Jack, whom she met in 2014 when the Hollywood star was “sober”.
Amber Heard says she quickly became attached to the two children. “I fell in love with these toddlers, who were very smart, and weird, but in a good way.”
She says she tried to educate Lily-Rose, who had a “crush” on a “musician” who was “over 18”. The latter spent a night at their house, and Amber Heard remembers being “worried” for the teenager.
Amber Heard was also disturbed to see Johnny Depp offer marijuana to his daughter Lily-Rose when she was a teenager. “She was so young. It pissed him off that I was intruding on this subject.”
16:41
Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of calling him a “hysterical bitch”
Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp called her a “hysterical bitch” in July 2013 during a press trip to promote the film The Lone Ranger.
It was around this time, she says, that Johnny Depp began to change his behavior towards her, and began to hate her “because she judged him”.
The actress remembers a big argument in their hotel room, which was then right next to that of the children of Depp Jack and Lily-Rose.
“He called me a hysterical bitch,” reports Amber Heard, who refused to reveal the other insults uttered against her by Johnny Depp. “I don’t think it’s necessary to repeat them here.”
16:31
Amber Heard was looking for ‘evidence’ of Johnny Depp’s drugs
Amber Heard talks about her daily life with Johnny Depp. She says she was looking for “evidence” of the drugs and alcohol the comedian used to use.
“He was fainting, he was getting sick, he was losing control of himself. And people were finding him, treating him. I was taking pictures for proof,” says Amber Heard.
The actress remembers having noticed a “change in the behavior” of the actor, who could fall asleep in the middle of a conversation, without warning signs.
Several photos of the actor asleep and under the influence were shown during the trial. Amber Heard describes Depp as “constantly on drugs, fasting, never sleeping”. “That was happening every day, all day.”
She remembers a day in 2014, during the filming of the film Mordecaiwhere the actor, heavily alcoholic and under the influence, had to be “carried like a baby” to his home by his bodyguard.
16:20
Amber Heard refused movies with sex scenes because of Johnny Depp
Amber Heard describes how her relationship with Johnny Depp impacted her career and movie choices.
“It was a constant struggle. Each time I received a script, he asked me how I was going to be dressed, if I was going to have love scenes”, explains the actress, who describes herself as a woman ” independent”, who “loves” working.
“I couldn’t act out sex scenes,” adds Amber Heard. “It didn’t happen right away. It happened gradually.” But quickly, the actress censors herself and ends up accepting only films without romantic scenes.
16:14
Amber Heard testifies again against Johnny Depp
Actress Amber Heard began her new testimony a few minutes ago against Johnny Depp in the defamation lawsuit between them.