Amber Heard loses her cool as cross-examination ends

Johnny Depp’s authorized workforce wrapped up its cross-examination of Amber Heard after two grueling days of questioning by grilling her on her relationship with James Franco and accusations she abused her ex-girlfriend. 

Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez ended her cross-examination by referencing allegations that Heard hit her ex-girlfriend Tasya van Ree in 2009. Two officers allegedly witnessed Heard smack van Ree within the arm and yank her necklace off, and she or he was arrested, however the prices had been rapidly dropped.

‘Johnny Depp is not the one accomplice of yours that you’ve got assaulted,’ Vasquez stated.

‘I’ve by no means assaulted any accomplice,’ Heard insisted. ‘I’ve by no means assaulted Mr. Depp or some other individual I used to be romantically linked to, ever.’

No additional questions, your Honor,’ Vasquez stated, wrapping up two days of cross-examination.

Earlier Vasquez requested Heard why James Franco visited her at her Los Angeles penthouse in May 2016, the day after the violent argument with Depp that was the ultimate straw of their marriage.

The court docket has heard beforehand that Depp was extraordinarily jealous of Franco and thought that Heard was having an affair with him. The jury was proven video of Franco and Heard within the elevator of the condo constructing. 

‘You knew that Mr. Depp was out of city May 22, 2016, did not you?’ Vasquez requested Heard, including that the go to got here the day after she modified the locks.

‘I did not know his schedule,’ she replied.

JAMES FRANCO VISIT TO THE PENTHOUSE  

Heard stated of Franco: ‘He was my pal and he lived fairly actually subsequent door. I’d exhausted my assist community and I used to be completely happy to welcome as a lot friendship as I may probably get.’

Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft requested Heard about CCTV footage from the constructing that confirmed her within the elevator with Franco shortly earlier than 11pm that night time.

In the clip he’s seen placing his head on Heard’s shoulder in an affectionate gesture.

Heard stated: ‘After seeing my face put his head on my shoulder. He touched the facet of my face too’.

Heard claims that Depp threw a telephone at her the night time earlier than, leaving a bruise on her cheek.

She informed the court docket that Franco ‘touched the facet of my face and responded to what he noticed.’

AMBER RELEASED FROM AQUAMAN 

Earlier the court docket heard an unhinged argument between Depp and Heard by which she tells him: ‘Suck my d**okay!’

Depp responds: ‘Suck my d**okay!’

He provides: ‘Suck your d**okay.’

Heard tells him she regrets believing ‘all of the lies you bought’ and calls Depp a ‘washed up piece of s***’ and a ‘sellout’.

Heard tells Depp that ‘you are a joke’ and Depp replies sarcastically: ‘I’m the joke within the business, Amber?’

Depp says bitingly: ‘Aquamannnnnn’.

Heard replies: ’21 Whatever. No-one cares’, referring to 21 Jump Street, the TV collection which was Depp’s huge break in his 20s.

Vasquez requested Heard if it was true that Depp obtained her the co-starring function in Aquaman.

Heard stated: ‘Excuse me? No Miss Vasquez I obtained that function by auditioning.’

Vasquez requested: ‘You had been the jealous one on this relationship?’

Heard stated: ‘Johnny’s at all times been very jealous once I labored.’ 

Heard informed the court docket that she was launched from her contract to do Aquaman 2 – however managed to remain within the film.

However she has no thought how lengthy she is going to seem as soon as the movie airs in theaters.

Asked if she was changed within the film, which is due out subsequent year, Heard stated that ‘they launched me from my contract’.

She stated she needed to ‘struggle’ to maintain her function as Mera, including that ‘I do not know the way a lot I’m within the remaining reduce.’

There was laughter in court docket as the jury heard a Tweet that Heard despatched to Depp’s former lawyer Adam Waldman in March 2021.

Heard claims that Waldman’s statements that her allegations had been a ‘hoax’ had been defamatory and are the premise of her $100million counterclaim.

In response to a remark by Waldman about her accidents being pretend, Heard Tweeted: ‘Yes Mr. Waldman, I could also be sporting make-up on this event however each time you’ll nonetheless be brief.’

Vasquez sought to painting Heard as the aggressor within the relationship by taking part in an audio recording the place she admits to hitting Depp.

Vasquez requested Heard if she struck Depp ‘a number of instances.’

Heard stated that ‘many instances I had to make use of my physique to defend myself. If it meant the distinction between a sore face and a damaged nostril, you guess I might.’

Asked if Heard was normally the ‘preliminary aggressor’, she stated that if Depp was choking her then she is perhaps the primary individual to slap him.

Heard claimed that if she obtained bodily it was to ‘defend myself.’

Heard denied modifying images she took after her remaining argument with Depp in May 2016 earlier than she filed for divorce.

Vasquez confirmed the jury two images facet by facet that Heard took displaying herself with a crimson face and a bruise on her face.

She requested Heard: ‘You simply edited these images?’

Heard stated: ‘Never’.

Vasquez requested if Heard ‘enhanced the saturation to make your face look extra crimson?’

Heard stated: ‘That’s incorrect, I did not contact it’.

DEPP CAN’T LOOK HEARD IN THE EYE  

Heard informed the court docket that the actual cause Depp cannot look her within the eye is that he’s ‘responsible’.

Depp’s legal professionals have beforehand claimed that Depp vowed to by no means look her within the eyes once more as soon as they divorced.

With a wobbly lip, Heard stated: ‘Because he is responsible. He is aware of he is mendacity in any other case why cannot he take a look at me?

‘I survived that man and I’m right here and I’m ready to take a look at him’.

While doing this she stared at Depp who stored his head down and spoke along with his legal professionals, refusing to satisfy her gaze.

The court docket has beforehand heard an audio clip of Depp from July 2016 – after the divorce – by which he says she is going to ‘by no means see my eyes once more’.

Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft mocked Depp by placing on a low voice to reprise the remarks – sparking laughter from Depp.

Heard stated that Depp has in actual fact seemed her within the eyes for the reason that divorce and at their first divorce mediation in July 2016 he did so ‘many instances’.

He additionally kissed her and gave her a word which stated: ‘I’ll love you lifeless or alive’ along with his new quantity on it.

In an audio performed in court docket, the jury may hear Heard begging with Johnny to not depart as he tried to go to his daughter. 

Depp pleaded with her, ‘Why do not you simply say, ”Okay child, I perceive, I’ll go dwelling and also you do your factor and hang around along with your daughter after which I’ll see you in a pair hours and we’ll discuss it.” Is it that tough to say that? Or do you f**king hate me? Please, it is not that tough. Okay?’ 

‘I do not need to stand right here in a driveway and argue with you,’ Heard responded.

‘I do not both.’

Heard informed Vasquez that she was attempting to cease Depp from taking medication.  

COUPLE’S ‘LOVE JOURNAL’ REVEALED IN COURT

The court docket was proven Depp and Heard’s ‘love journal’ they might each write in to one another.

In a diary entry on May 22, 2015, Heard wrote: ‘True love is not about simply the insanity of ardour or choosing the protection of peace. It’s about having each. I’ve seen in you the true bones of friendship and respect however I nonetheless greater than ever need to rip you aside, devour you and savor the style.’

When pressed by Depp’s lawyer Vasquez on the contents, Heard informed the jury it was a ‘love word’ to Depp, whose personal writings within the e book had been redacted.

Heard has beforehand claimed that in her honeymoon with Depp in July 2015 aboard the Orient Express he brutally assaulted her.

But the court docket was proven a word within the diary from July 22 that year which learn: ‘My husband, completely happy honeymoon.’

The inside cover was a photograph from after they had been again in Australia having made up after the struggle two months earlier than.

Heard stated that the picture, the place they’re arm in arm on a ship, was ‘a lot later’ as soon as they returned to Australia.

Heard stated this was throughout a ‘honeymoon interval’ when Depp was clear and sober.

Heard signed it off as ‘Slim’, Depp’s nickname for her.

In a word on April 8, 2016, Heard wrote: ‘I’m sorry I can get loopy. I’m sorry I damage you. Like you I can get depraved once I get damage’.

Heard added that she was ‘sorry personally’, and that there’s ‘by no means a cause adequate to harm you’.

In a word on August 1, 2015, Heard wrote: ‘I could not wait to let you know how a lot I like you

‘I could not have imagined a extra attractive honeymoon’.

The following day Heard wrote that she missed Depp and known as him a ‘heat, loving husband’.

Vasquez requested Heard if the e book was a ‘love journal’ and she or he stated sure.

Heard stated: ‘The e book was extra of a love word e book and a part of communication, it was vital for me to attempt to nurture as a lot peace as we probably may’.

Vasquez requested if it was ‘additionally a chance to apologize to Mr. Depp on your conduct?’

Heard stated it was ‘vital to apologize’ to maneuver on from fights.

In a word on August 17, 2015, Heard wrote, ‘I’m sorry I shook the wheel so onerous. God rattling I really like you Johnny, I’m tied to you ceaselessly.

‘Let me attempt to repair this, let me attempt to patch this You deserve it. I want you….You’re my cornerstone, my coronary heart, my all. I hate it after we struggle.

‘I really like you greater than something. I want you, I really like you.’

GRILLED OVER GIFTING ‘ABUSIVE’ JOHNNY A KNIFE  

The court docket was proven the precise knife that Heard purchased Depp as a gift in 2012 – it has the inscription ‘Hasta la muerte’, or ‘Until Death’ on it.

Heard has testified that Depp used to say that the ‘solely approach out of this relationship is loss of life’, which is why she inscribed it as such.

Until now the jury has solely seen images of the weapon.

Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez requested the grasp deputy of the court docket to point out the knife to Heard and the jury, which he did.

Vasquez requested Heard if this was a interval when Depp was being violent, and Heard stated that he was out and in of sobriety in 2012.

Vasquez stated: ‘During these cycles of violence you gave Mr. Depp a knife as a present?’

Heard stated: ‘I gave him a knife for a birthday current early in our relationship, round 2012.’

Vasquez stated: ‘That’s the knife you gave to the person who was hitting you.’

Heard shot again: I wasn’t frightened he was going to stab me with it.’

Vasquez stated: ‘But you gave it to him?’

Heard admitted: ‘I gave it to him.’

Heard stated that the night time earlier than her wedding ceremony to Depp in February 2015 on his personal island within the Bahamas she deliberate to take mushrooms with her girlfriends for her bachelorette get together.

The court docket was proven an e-mail Heard despatched on February 2, 2015 in regards to the planning of the marriage itself.

The schedule stated that after a rehearsal dinner the night time earlier than the marriage there can be a ‘dance get together and medicines and music.’

The court docket has beforehand heard that Heard and her buddies had been taking MDMA throughout the ceremony itself.

Asked in regards to the e-mail, Heard claimed it was a ‘proposed’ schedule and that the ultimate operating order was totally different.

Vasquez requested bitingly: ‘You deliberate to have medication at your wedding ceremony to somebody you characterised as a drug addict?’

Heard stated that the ‘schedule ended up altering fairly a bit.’

Vasquez stated: ‘The authentic thought was to have a rehearsal dinner along with your husband, the drug addict, the monster, and do medication with girlfriends?’

Heard stated: ‘I notice that is what the e-mail suggests. The schedule ended up altering.’

She added that there was going to be marijuana on the island and that she deliberate to do a ‘cuddle puddle’ with her girlfriends throughout the bachelorette get together whereas they had been excessive on mushrooms, referring to them having a gaggle hug.

CHALLENGED OVER AUSTRALIA ‘HOSTAGE’ SITUATION

Vasquez challenged Heard’s recollection of the struggle in Australia in March 2015 when she claims he reduce his fingertip off whereas bashing a telephone in opposition to a wall.

Depp has claimed that Heard sliced it off when she threw a vodka bottle at him.

The court docket was proven a photograph of the bar space from after the struggle on the rented property that Heard and Depp had been staying at.

Vasquez requested why the damaged items of the wall mounted telephone couldn’t seen on the ground.

Heard claimed that whoever took the image was standing ‘proper in entrance’ of the place the telephone must be. The court docket was proven one other photograph of the bar space with an intact telephone in it.

Heard stated that wasn’t the telephone Depp smashed and the one he destroyed was ‘ornamental, massive and vintage’ – the photograph proven to the jury was a contemporary design.

Vasquez requested Heard in regards to the sequence of occasions that Heard was claiming occurred.

She inquired whether or not it was right to say that Depp smashed the telephone, assaulted Heard, lost the tip of his finger then sexually assaulted her.

Heard stated: ‘I’ve by no means claimed that I can keep in mind the precise sequence. This was a multi-day assault, that occurred over three days and was the worst factor that occurred to me.’

Vasquez challenged Heard over her declare that Depp sexually assaulted her with a bottle.

The jury had been proven a picture of a bottle of Makers Mark liquor that Heard claimed she discovered the morning afterwards and testified that it gave the impression to be the bottle Depp used.

Heard has beforehand described feeling a ‘stress’ on her pubic bone and thought Depp was punching her personal components.

Vasquez requested: ‘This is Maker’s Mark bottle Mr. Depp assaulted you with?’

Heard stated that it was ‘positively that form.’

Heard stated that she had cuts to her forearms, toes and a bruise on her jaw.

But she admitted that she ‘did not search therapy’ from a physician for the accidents.

Heard additionally admitted that, in distinction to different incidents of violence, she didn’t take photos of her accidents.

The court docket was proven images taken by Heard of writing on the mirrors of the property in black and crimson paint and blood that Depp wrote after the struggle.

Vasquez requested Heard if she wasn’t in any of the as a result of ‘as a result of you did not have any seen accidents on you?’

Heard stated she was capturing the writing.

Vasquez requested Heard if she wrote in crimson on the mirror: ‘Call Carly Simon, she stated it higher babe.’ The message gave the impression to be a reference to Simon’s tune ‘You’re So Vain.’

Vasquez stated: ‘If you probably did write that it might imply your husband is writing round bleeding from his finger and also you’re writing snarky messages.’

Heard stated: ‘I do not know what your question is’.

The court docket was performed an audio recording of Depp and Heard later speaking in regards to the incident in Australia by which Depp described being adopted round the home by his then spouse.

Vasquez requested Heard if that is what ‘actually occurred in Australia’, that she pursued Depp by way of ‘5 toilet doorways and two bedrooms’ as the audio detailed.

Heard shot again that Depp ‘just isn’t an correct historian’, inflicting him to snigger out loud in court docket.

She claimed that she knocked on one toilet door and that she did not assault Depp

Vasquez requested: You weren’t petrified of him in any respect had been you?’

Heard stated: ‘I’ve a combined relationship with Johnny. One by which I’m scared one by which I really like him very a lot’.

Vasquez requested if throughout the Australia incident she wasn’t petrified of him.

Heard stated: ‘This is a person who tried to kill me. Of course it is scary. He’s additionally my husband’.

HEARD CLAIMS PHOTO OF JOHNNY DEPP WITH BRUISES IS PHOTOSHOPPED 

 Heard claimed a photograph of Johnny Depp with two black eyes is photoshopped.  

Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez offered a photograph from the couple’s honeymoon in 2015 that exhibits the Pirates of the Caribbean actor with darkish bruises beneath his eyes. Depp, posing alongside his now ex-wife and three others, appeared to have seen accidents and swelling on his face.

Heard stated beneath cross examination, ‘I’ve seen this image earlier than, and he is not injured in it. This one is photoshopped.’

Heard claimed that on this journey Depp slapped her throughout the face, grabbed her by the neck and pushed her in opposition to the wall of a practice automobile, nevertheless there isn’t a photographic proof of Heard’s alleged accidents. 

Vasquez stated, ‘This is the one photograph out of your honeymoon that exhibits somebody injured.’

Heard claimed that her honeymoon with Depp was ‘peaceable’ till he began consuming ‘brown alcohol’.

‘The practice journey itself was peaceable up till Johnny would begin consuming brown alcohol. He’d already began consuming champagne when he wrapped on Pirates 5,’ Heard stated.  

‘I wasn’t prepared to simply accept we would gone again to a sample in any respect. On the final night time on the practice after this was taken Johnny and I obtained into argument about him wanting me to comply with him consuming liquor. An argument adopted in our sleeping automobile.

‘Johnny slapped me throughout the face and obtained a maintain of my neck and pushed me up in opposition to the wall of the automobile. It was a small slender sleeper automobile.

‘He was standing on the ground. I used to be attempting to get his arms off my neck and he was squeezing my neck for what felt like a really very long time.

‘Every time he’d pull me away from the automobile he’d slam me up in opposition to the wall. I keep in mind attempting to get his arms off my neck and keep in mind pondering he couldn’t even imply to kill me

‘I keep in mind being scared he would not even imply to do it. Clawing at him, attempting to get his arms away from my neck. At one level he tripped the highest of my shirt, I had a breast uncovered

‘I pull on the lapel of his shirt and he rips the shirt off of him and wraps it round my neck and that is how I awoke the following morning, I awoke with it nonetheless round my neck and a large knot behind my head.’