Amber Heard fights back tears in court describing ‘hostage situation’ in Australia

Amber Heard was brought to tears in court while recounting an incident in Australia, while Depp’s lawyers claimed all was not as it seemed.

Amber Heard fought back tears in a London court describing the “three-day hostage situation” on the Gold Coast with Johnny Depp and insisted scars pictured on her wrist were from trying to escape the actor, not self-harm.

On the second day of her testimony in the London High Court, the Aquaman actress, 34, described the horror she felt at being in Australia in March 2015 shortly after the couple’s wedding in which she felt “trapped in a remote place without any means to leave”.

“I was in a remote house, at least 20 minutes from help, where I could not leave; was trapped and isolated with a violent person suffering from manic depression, bipolar disorder and a pattern of repeated, drug-induced psychosis and violence, who was on a multiple-day drug and alcohol binge,” she said in a witness statement tendered to the court.

“Over the course of those three days, there were extreme acts of psychological, physical, emotional and other forms of violence. It is the worst thing I have ever been through. I was left with an injured lip and nose and cuts on my arms.”

Heard alleges she was choked against the marble bar by Depp, 57, after he had thrown bottles at her and the surface was wet and slippery. She appeared visibly upset and fought back tears while describing her feet scrambling for purchase on the floor slick with liquid and covered with shattered glass.

“It had been so long since I could breathe and I thought he was pushing so hard,” she told the court.

“I was slipping on the glass, I was slipping on the countertops.”

She said she still has scars on the bottom of her feet and hands from scrabbling around.

Depp denies allegations of violence against his ex-wife and is suing the publishers of The Sun* and its executive editor Dan Wootton over an article describing him as a “wife beater”.

In court, Eleanor Laws, QC, acting for Mr Depp took issue with a picture of the scars on Heard’s arms that was taken later after the incident, suggesting that they were “not scars sustained in the attack” as they were not consistent with “writhing around”.

“I suggest that these are self-harm scars, straight and inflicted by you and certainly not in the struggle with Mr Depp,” Ms Laws said.

Heard replied: “I had these scars from that evening and I have never self-harmed. Johnny is a self-harmer, I am not a self-harmer.”

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The scars pictured in a photograph taken at a later date.

Amber Heard fought back tears as she described her experience in Australia. Picture: John Phillips/Getty Images

HOSTAGE CLAIMS A ‘TOTAL MISCHARACTERISATION’

Ms Laws put it to Heard that it was a “total mischaracterisation” to describe it as a “hostage situation” when she had a mobile phone and could have contacted someone and organised to be picked up from the luxury mansion they had rented in the area.

“You have described it as a three-day hostage situation and at one point barricading yourself into the bedroom,” Ms Laws said, while noting Heard had sliding doors from her room and “had the opportunity to leave at any point during those three days”.

“You had a cellphone. If you’re a hostage you don’t usually have one of those,” she said.

Heard replied she could have called somebody if she needed to be picked up but denied it was a “total mischaracterisation” to describe herself as a hostage.

“This was my marriage. I lived in it,” she said.

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A picture given to the court earlier showing the damage to the property where the pair stayed in Australia.

SECRET RECORDINGS

Ms Laws asked about the two recordings made during the trip and whether Heard had made them, including one on her phone that was around seven or eight hours long.

Heard replied that she didn’t remember and said the couple – which had often recorded one another – did so “where there would be some therapeutic benefit to come from it at a later date”.

However at that time, she alleged Depp had taken a “massive amount of ecstasy” and there “was no valuable conversation that was being had between us”.

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Johnny Depp has denied domestic violence against his ex-wife. The couple divorced in 2017. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

STEAK IN THE DRESSING GOWN AND THE SEVERED FINGER

Heard alleges she was choked, pushed and had glass bottles thrown at her on the trip to Australia. In her witness statement referred to in court, she claimed Depp hit her with the back of a closed hand while screaming he was going to “kill you and f**k your corpse”.

The witness statement also claimed she found raw steak she had attempted to cook for the couple in her dressing gown.

“He had ripped the gown into pieces and put raw meat in it. He had also gone around and painted on all my clothes in the closet. He had taken a lot out of them and put them in the tub and smeared paint on them. And he had hidden more bits of raw meat in places, like in the bedroom closet. It was really messed up,” she said.

On the severed finger which Depp’s team allege happened when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, Heard said she “didn’t see his finger go off” but instead realised it was missing the next day when she came downstairs to find him covered in blood.

“There was so much red on him. At first I thought it was my blood and I thought, had I bled that much? My feet and arms were very bloody. He held up his finger and said, “Look what you made me do!

“It was covered in blood and paint, but I could see the bone. I was really worried about how much blood he could have lost from his finger. He had been alone and bleeding for so long while I was asleep, and I was worried about losing him,” she said.

Despite the couple’s chaotic relationship and allegations of violence on both sides, Heard maintained that she “loved the Johnny that was clean and sober”.

“Johnny, the monster rather, nearly killed me – but I loved him.

“I loved the Johnny who was clean and sober and he made a promise to get clean and sober for good because he needed to be for his surgery.”

The case continues.

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