Depp's lawyers grill: Does this nose look broken?
The jury was been shown unblemished pap-shots from when Heard said Depp had broken her nose.
"My head was bashing against the back of the bar and I couldn't breathe."
Warning: Domestic violence and sexual assault is discussed in this piece.
Johnny Depp's lawyers have used a flawless photo of Amber Heard to try prove the actress was lying in her claims Depp had broken her nose the night before.
The jury were shown the picture of Heard and Depp from May 6 2014, taken the day after Depp allegedly broke her nose. In the picture there were no signs of bruising or injury.
"You should see what is under the makeup," Heard told the courtroom. She claimed she had a photo without makeup on, but her lawyers had failed to produce it.
Depp's lawyers quizzed her on whether she suffered swelling - which would have been impossible to cover with make-up - to which she replied the swelling "wasn't that bad."
Further images were shown to the jury of Heard in a backless dress at the 2015 Mortdecai premiere in Tokyo - a day after she claimed Depp stood on her back.
A video was produced by Depp's lawyers of Heard appearing on James Corden's The Late Late Show. She testified she had two black eyes at the time, that were not visible on the show.
Depp's legal team are the for the first time asking questions of the Aquaman actress, who is being sued for US$50m by the Pirates of the Caribbean star over a Washington Post op-ed she wrote alleging she'd suffered domestic violence.
She never mentioned him by name, and as the court heard on Monday (Tuesday AEST)... she may not have even written the article.
The ACLU wrote the first draft of the article
Heard admitted the American Civil Liberties Union - a nonprofit organisation working to "defend the rights and liberties" of Americans - wrote the first draft of the 2018 article.
"Who drafted the first draft of the op-ed?" Heard attorney, Elaine Bredehoft, asked her on the stand.
"The ACLU," Heard replied.
Heard claimed she had just recently become an ambassador for the union, and "believed some of the causes that the op-ed was seeking to advance."
"There was a lot of attention and energy around gender based issues," she said.
"I was looking forward to the opportunity to lend my voice to a great cause."
A complete guide to Amber Heard's defence
The 36-year-old actress told the jury on Monday that she filed for divorce from Depp in May 2016 because she feared for her life.
“I had to leave him,” Heard said. “I knew I wouldn’t survive if I didn’t. I was so scared that it was going to end really badly for me.” Heard said Depp would become a physically and sexually abusive “monster” when he was drinking and her efforts to curtail his drug and alcohol use had failed.
“The monster had been this thing that was now the normal and not the exception,” she told the seven-person jury hearing the case in Fairfax, Virginia. “The violence was now normal.” The 58-year-old Depp, during his four days on the witness stand, denied ever striking Heard and claimed that she was the one who was frequently violent.
Sexual assault allegations
During a fight in Australia - when Depp was filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean in March 2015 - the actor repeatedly hit her, threw bottles at her and choked her against a refrigerator, before finally getting her on top of a countertop and penetrating her with a bottle, Heard testified.
"At some point he's on top of me, screaming I fucking hate you, you ruined my fucking life," Heard told the court, breaking down in tears. "I'm on the countertop, he had me by the neck and was on top of me.
"I'm looking in his eyes and I don't see him any more. It wasn't him, it was black. I haven't been so scared in my life. He was looking at me. I was trying to get through to him, to say in some way it was me. Trying to get through to Johnny.
"My head was bashing against the back of the bar and I couldn't breathe. I remember trying to get up to tell him he was really hurting me. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't get through to him. I couldn't get up."
Heard was overwhelmed with emotion when she told the court Depp forced a bottle into her vagina.
"Next thing I remember I was bent over backwards on the bar, I was staring at the blue light. My back was on the countertop. I thought he was punching me. I felt this pressure on my pubic bone and I could feel his arm moving. It looked like he was punching me. I could just feel this pressure," she said.
“I remember just not wanting to move,” she told the courtroom. She said she remembered thinking, “Please, God, I hope it’s not broken.”
The next morning, Heard recalled waking up to Marilyn Manson music and noticing a brown substance on the wall, which she identified to be blood.
During this same fight, Depp has testified Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, severing his finger, the blood from which he used to write messages on the wall.
According to Heard's testimony, after being assaulted the night before, she said she woke up to discover the messages on the wall written by Depp and later discovered his injured finger.
"You could see where it looked like he ran out of blood because the markings became clearly letters ... like I could see where he had clearly run out of blood or wasn't bleeding enough and went and got paint," she said. "You could see both."
Depp testified he initially lied and told doctors he had hurt his finger in accordion doors: "I didn't want to disclose that it had been Ms. Heard that had thrown a vodka bottle at me and took my finger off," he claimed.
Heard said the pain of having the bottle inserted in her "paled in comparison" to the pain she felt having known she had married "this man".
"I wasn't thinking about that (pain). I was heartbroken. I realised eventually that I could be hurt because I was bleeding," she said.
"But I convinced myself it wasn't broken or that the bottle wasn't broken or it would be a lot worse and the discomfort paled in comparison (to the heartbreak) ... I had just married this man."
Heard's testimony was verified by Dawn Hughes - a forensic psychologist who testified for Heard's defence - who claimed Depp sexually abused Heard by forcing her to perform oral sex and by penetrating her with a liquor bottle after telling her he hated her.
“When Mr. Depp was drunk or high, he threw her on the bed, ripped off her nightgown and tried to have sex with her,” the psychologist told the jury on Wednesday.
“There were times when he forced her to give him oral sex when he was angry at her.”
Heard broke down in hysterical tears when she told the jury Depp ripped her underwear and performed a "cavity search" on her, apparently while looking for his drugs.
A high Depp "asked me where it is" and "how long I've been hiding" his cocaine, Heard testified.
Heard was confused, and didn't know what Depp was referring to, causing him to scream at her: "You know what I'm fucking talking about," she said.
Depp patted down her dress, before ripping both it and underwear off, proceeding to do a cavity search. “He just shoved his fingers inside me,” Heard said, adding he twisted his fingers around inside her.
Again, Hughes backed her up.
The psychologist said he “felt it acceptable to rip off her nightgown and stick his fingers up her vagina to look for cocaine, thought that maybe she was hiding them there”.
The first slap
The first time Depp hit Heard he called her a "bitch", the actress told a jury.
The pair was sitting on the couch drinking, and there was a "jar of cocaine" nearby when Heard asked Depp what the tattoo on his arm meant, she recounted.
He told her it said "Wino", referring to a tattoo that had once said "Winona Forever" until his engagement with actress Winona Ryder was called off and he altered the ink.
Heard laughed when she learnt the meaning of the tattoo, prompting Depp to slap her across the face.
“I laughed because I didn’t know what else to do. I thought this must be a joke,” Heard told the court. But Depp didn't find it funny.
“You think it’s so funny? You think it’s funny, bitch? You think you’re a funny bitch,” Heard recalled his words at the time.
“I didn’t move, freak out, because I didn’t know what else to do,” she said. “Then he slapped me again one more time. Hard. I lose my balance on edge of (the) couch and I wished so much he’d say he was joking.”
Heard said Depp "sobbed" after he first hit her. “I will never do that again, I’m so sorry, baby … I thought I put the monster away,” Depp said, according to her testimony.
Depp's jealousy of James Franco
Johnny Depp kicked Amber Heard in the back and called her a "slut" in a jealous rage over her relationship with actor James Franco, a jury has heard.
Heard took the stand for the second time on Friday with terrifying accusations of her ex-husband's abuse.
She recounted an incident when Depp became upset aboard a plane, when he discovered she had kissed Franco for a scene in 2015 movie The Adderall Diaries. At the time, Depp smelled of "weed" and alcohol, she said.
"He just kicked me in the back. I fell on the floor," she told the courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia.
"No one said anything. No one did anything. It's like you could hear a pin drop on that plane."
“I was embarrassed that he could kick me to the ground in front of people."
Heard told the court Depp had asked her if she "slipped a tongue" to Franco during the scene, and asked "about how (she) liked it".
Heard repeatedly attempted to move seats, but Depp would throw ice cubes and utensils at her, the actress testified.
A recording was played for the court on Thursday, allegedly of Depp on the flight, which Heard said showed him "howling" while suffering from the effects of drug use. Following the incident on the flight, Ms Heard said he met her in New York to apologise and to prove he was sober and had changed.
Franco was previously expected to testify at the trial, but according to the New York Post, will not.
The death threat
Depp allegedly threatened to kill Heard while the pair were with the actor's teenage children in the Bahamas, taking one last trip on Depp's yacht before he sold it to author J.K. Rowling.
“He slams me up by my neck and holds me there for a second and tells me that he could fucking kill me and that I was an embarrassment,” Heard testified on Thursday.
Heard said Depp's daughter, Lily-Rose, grew upset with her dad’s drunken behaviour and Depp accused her of telling his kids about his addiction problems before he allegedly attacked her.
Heard escaped the yacht on a helicopter with Depp's daughter who was crying to her, according to the actress' testimony.
Depp's drug use
Depp would often pass out and lose control of his body, Heard said on the stand.
“I cleaned up after him,” she testified.
“This man lost control of his bowels and I cleaned up after him.”
The actor's security guards allegedly had to change his pants in front of her, Heard said, which prompted Depp to chuckle from his seat in the courtroom.
“He passed out in his own sick… and then he’d walk around saying he didn’t have a problem,” Heard testified.
Heard said he “was the love of my life but he was also this other thing,” alluding to when he was drunk and high. “And that other thing was awful. Awful thing that would come out and take over and you couldn’t see the Johnny I loved underneath it.”
“No one told him. No one was honest with him,” she said.
She added of his drug use: “Johnny on speed is very different from Johnny on opiates. And Johnny on opiates [is] very different from Johnny on Adderall, and Cocaine Johnny, which is very different from Quaaludes Johnny.”
The Johnny fans haven't stopped
Throughout Heard's defence, and despite graphic testimony, Depp's loyal fans have continued to flood the trial's livestream with support for the actor.
The hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp has been trending on platforms including Twitter and Instagram for weeks.
It is had more than 8billion views on TikTok with supporters flooding social media with commentary about the case.
The trial continues on Tuesday.
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