Johnny Depp demanded that Amber Heard stop doing nudity in films and cut down on intimate movie scenes, a friend of the actress has claimed.
Joshua Drew alleged he had heard the Hollywood star had a ‘particular issue’ with fellow actor James Franco and his name would ’cause fights’ between the couple.
Mr Drew, the former husband of Ms Heard’s friend Raquel ‘Rocky’ Pennington, is giving evidence in Mr Depp’s libel action against the Sun over a 2018 article which labelled him a ‘wife beater’.
In a written witness statement, Mr Drew said he first met Ms Heard, 34, in June 2014, and Mr Depp, 57, shortly after. He and Ms Pennington were engaged in the summer of 2015 and they moved into the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles later that year.
The High Court has heard that Mr Depp owned a suite of penthouses in the building. Mr Drew claimed: ‘I understood from our interactions that Johnny was jealous.’
Joshua Drew alleged he had heard the Hollywood star had a ‘particular issue’ with fellow actor James Franco (pictured with Heard in The Adderall Diaries) and his name would ’cause fights’ between the couple
Mr Drew (left), the former husband of Ms Heard’s friend Raquel ‘Rocky’ Pennington, is giving evidence in Mr Depp’s (right, today) libel action against the Sun over a 2018 article which labelled him a ‘wife beater’
Amber Heard leaves the High Court in central London today with her girlfriend Bianca Butti as the Depp libel case continues
He continued: ‘Rocky told me, based on her conversations with Amber, that Johnny had a particular issue with James Franco because he and Amber had some intimate scenes in a project they were filming, which Johnny did not want her doing.
‘His name came up often and it would cause fights between them. They were arguing about it very regularly.’
Mr Drew also said he had overheard the couple fighting, saying: ‘For example, during a trip to France I heard Johnny shouting at Amber about a role she had done.
‘Johnny was shouting about a nudity rider in the film that she claimed was fraudulent and he accused her of knowing about and going against his wishes to include it.
‘I knew from what had been discussed with Rocky and Amber that Johnny had demanded that Amber stop doing nudity in her films and that she cut down on intimate scenes with co-stars.
‘Rocky told me about various fights they had had over the years and said that Johnny was jealous of Amber’s co-stars.’
In his statement, Mr Drew gave his account of an alleged incident at the Eastern Columbia Building, on May 21 2016, in which Ms Heard claims Mr Depp threw a mobile phone at her, which he denies.
Mr Drew claims that after the alleged episode, he and Ms Pennington ushered Ms Heard into their apartment and ‘deadbolted the door to keep him out and keep her safe until Johnny had left the building’.
He said Ms Pennington told him Mr Depp had ‘shoved her’ and he ‘got angry’ and went and ‘banged on the door’ of another apartment before going back to his own.
He claimed that around five minutes later, Mr Depp’s then security guard, Jerry Judge, called him and asked him if he knew where Mr Depp’s mobile phone was.
Mr Drew claimed he told Mr Judge he had it and they could come and get it but said ‘words to the effect of they could not set foot in the building’.
Mr Drew alleged: ‘I met Jerry downstairs and gave him the phone. He took a few steps to walk away and then turned and asked me ‘Is she okay?’
‘I said something like, ‘Are you f***ing kidding me? He beat the shit out of her again and you guys stood by and watched it’.
‘He started to demur and then said something along the lines of it’s not his business, they are husband and wife, he barely touched her. I said something to him like, ‘get the f*** out of here, be real proud of yourself; get the f*** out’.’
Mr Drew also said he greeted police officers who arrived around 15 minutes later and showed them around the apartments.
‘You are making up this up as you go along’: Amber Heard is accused of lying about Johnny Depp’s Thanksgiving attack as court is shown video of them celebrating and laughing about ‘the monster’ with actor’s son and Marilyn Manson
Amber Heard was today accused of ‘making up’ claims Johnny Depp was violent after being shown a video of the couple partying happily with friends including Marilyn Manson on the night the actress claims her ex-husband threw her across the room and ‘busted’ her lip.
Ms Heard alleges that Mr Depp also ripped her shirt and left her with a ‘lump’ on the back of her head on Thanksgiving in November 2015.
Today two videos were played in court from the holiday weekend where people can be heard talking excitedly and laughing with Heard and Depp, who filmed the group enjoying themselves.
When asked by Eleanor Laws, Mr Depp’s QC, to explain the footage, which showed no violence taking place, Heard replied: ‘Our fights never happened in front of the family. They typically happened after everyone had gone to bed.’
Ms Laws alleged that Heard was lying about the entire incident and said: ‘You are making up this up as you go along’.
Not all the faces of those in the darkened video are visible, but Heard can be seen picking up a drink and revealed that she could tell that Marilyn Manson was present after recognising his fingernails. She also told the court that others present were her friend Rocky Pennington, Depp and his son Jack, Heard’s father David and Erin Boerum, Heard’s nurse and friend.
Amber has claimed that her megastar ex-husband would blame his ‘alter ego’ called ‘the monster’ for the alleged violence while intoxicated with copious amounts of drink and drugs. In the film Depp can be heard joking with Jack Depp about a monster being in the room while Amber exclaims to a guest: ‘What are you doing? Get away get away’.
Amber Heard picks up her drink while partying with Johnny Depp and friends including Marilyn Manson on the night she claims her ex-husband hurled her across a room and ‘busted’ her lip
Ms Heard was accused of ‘making up this up as you go along’ by Mr Depp’s QC on her third day of evidence
Eleanor Laws QC then turned to an alleged incident of domestic violence in Los Angeles in December 2015, which Amber Heard has described in her first witness statement as ‘one of the worst and most violent nights of our relationship’.
Ms Heard alleges that Johnny Depp slapped her, dragged her by the hair through their apartment – pulling clumps of her hair out – and then repeatedly punched her in the head.
The actress became visibly upset as Ms Laws read through passages of her witness statement detailing the alleged abuse.
Ms Laws said: ‘That’s just a complete set of lies, isn’t it?’
Ms Heard replied quietly: ‘No.’
Ms Laws then referred to medical notes made by a nurse, Erin Boerum, who saw Ms Heard shortly after the alleged incident in Los Angeles, who recorded that Ms Heard was ‘actively bleeding on her lip’.
The nurse also said she ‘briefly looked at the client’s scalp but was unable to visualise haematomas the client described’.
Ms Laws said: ‘You didn’t have any bruises at all when you saw Erin Boerum, did you?’
Ms Heard replied: ‘I had two black eyes, a broken nose, a broken rib… I had bruises all over my body.’
She added: ‘I had bruised ribs, bruises all over my body, bruises on my forearms from trying to defend the blows. I had two black eyes, I had a broken nose, I had a broken lip… the really bad ones (bruises) were in my hairline, on my scalp.’
Ms Heard continued: ‘There was chunks of hair missing, there was pus in those wounds in my hair line, dark red bruises… purple-red on my temples and on my chin. The inside of my upper lip was cut.’
Ms Laws suggested: ‘This is just nonsense, isn’t it? She (Ms Boerum) didn’t see any bruising… you had just bitten your lip because there was fresh blood on it. Had you just done that for her benefit?’
Ms Heard replied: ‘Of course not.’
Ms Laws put it to Ms Heard that a photograph of her with bruises on her face taken after the alleged December 2015 incident was ‘completely set up’, which Ms Heard denied.
Ms Laws then said: ‘If someone is grabbing you by the hair and pulling your hair out, it would come out at the root.’
Ms Heard said: ‘No of course not, of course not. It comes out wherever it breaks.’
Ms Laws then asked the actress why she took a photograph of her scalp, and Ms Heard said her scalp was ‘in pain’ and her friend Raquel Pennington took a photograph because she had red spots on her head and it was ‘pussy’ from where it had been pulled out.
A short clip of Ms Heard’s appearance on The Late Late Show was then played to the court, following which Ms Laws said: ‘That is what you looked like on the show, there is no injury, is there?’
Ms Heard replied: ‘I had tonnes of injuries.’ She then said she had makeup on covering the injuries and added: ‘You can tell by the size of my lip alone.’
Ms Laws then asked Ms Heard about an alleged incident in the Bahamas in August 2014, when the couple were staying on Mr Depp’s private island while he was detoxing.
She read out part of Ms Heard’s witness statement where the actress referred to a door being splintered during the violent episode.
The barrister then read from notes of Mr Depp’s doctor, Dr Kipper, which stated that Ms Heard went to get him and nurse Debbie Lloyd and described Mr Depp as ‘erratic and paranoid’.
The notes said the pair found Mr Depp ‘sitting quietly on his porch’ and that he was calm and said he was frustrated with the detox process.
Ms Laws said: ‘I suggest to you that he didn’t assault you in any way on that day.’
Clarifying the question, Mr Justice Nicol said: ‘Did Mr Depp assault you on that day?’ To which Ms Heard replied: ‘Absolutely.’
Ms Laws then asked about photographs of the broken door, saying: ‘That is not a photograph from the Bahamas, is it?’
Ms Heard said: ‘No. It was a mistake in the divorce.
Ms Laws said: ‘You just include any photographs, anything you can, in a very cavalier way, don’t you?’
Ms Heard explained there was a large bundle of evidence in the divorce proceedings, adding: ‘This is a different door he kicked.’
Ms Heard was asked about an alleged incident in Tokyo in January 2015, during which the actress claims Mr Depp slapped her, grabbed her hair and knelt on her back.
Ms Laws asked if she attended a film premiere while there and when it was, and Ms Heard said she did and it was two days after the alleged attack, adding that she was concerned about bruises on her back.
Ms Laws said: ‘Do you remember wearing a backless dress to that premiere?’ Ms Heard replied: ‘Very well.’
The barrister asked: ‘You didn’t have any injury on your back, did you?’ Ms Heard replied: ‘Not visible … I remember checking obsessively.’
Johnny Depp’s nose showed visible signs of injury after Amber Heard ‘lost her temper’ on their Orient Express honeymoon, star’s QC claims
The High Court was shown this picture of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp on their honeymoon on the Eastern and Oriental Express in South-east Asia in 2015 with his QC claiming his reddened nose is a sign of injury inflicted by his then wife
Johnny Depp’s QC Eleanor Laws had earlier discussed the ‘train incident’, when Johnny Depp is said to have been violent to Ms Heard on the Eastern and Oriental Express in South-east Asia in August 2015 on their honeymoon.
Miss Heard alleges Depp picked a fight with her, hit her and pushed her against a wall by the throat, causing her to fear for her life. This is denied by Depp.
The barrister said: ‘This is yet another occasion when you had a row and it was you who lost your temper.’
Ms Heard said: ‘No, I disagree.’
Ms Laws showed Ms Heard a photo of Mr Depp, taken on the train, which she said showed ‘an injury on his face’.
Ms Heard said she could not see any injury to Mr Depp.
Ms Laws continued: ‘This is yet another occasion where you have completely turned an incident around and blamed Mr Depp.’
Ms Heard said: ‘No, I have tons of pictures from this vacation and these days and he’s uninjured. He strangled me.’
Johnny Depp ‘threw 30 bottles at me like grenades’
Proceeding began today when Amber Heard denied severing the tip of Johnny Depp’s finger or stubbing out a cigarette on his face during a violent argument in Australia claiming the Hollywood star was lobbing up to 30 booze bottles at her ‘like grenades’ while holding her hostage for three days in a mansion.
The actress, who accuses the 57-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star of physical abuse on at least 14 occasions, was questioned about an incident Down Under in March 2015 on her third day in the witness box at the High Court in London.
Depp says the tip of his finger was severed during an argument when Heard, 34, threw a large vodka bottle which struck his hand, but Ms Heard hit back today saying: ‘I only threw things to escape Johnny when he was beating me up’.
Describing the row she said she had taken a bottle from Depp from which he was drinking and smashed it on the floor, prompting a furious response from him. Ms Heard said the majority of bottles were thrown downstairs, before giving a long answer in which she said Mr Depp had thrown ’30 or so bottles’ towards her ‘like grenades’.
She said he threw all the bottles within reach bar one, saying: ‘He picked them up ad started using them like grenades or bombs…throwing one after another in my direction.’
Depp’s lawyer Eleanor Laws said Heard’s account that the actor had severed his finger by smashing a phone against a wall and then continued to assault her was a lie. ‘No it’s not,’ she replied. ‘I don’t think he meant to sever the finger but yes he carried on attacking me.’
Laws also accused Heard of stubbing a cigarette out on Depp’s cheek. ‘No, Johnny did it right in front of me. He often did things like that,’ she said. It came after Ms Heard claimed Johnny Depp and his lawyers have run a four-year campaign to ‘harass’ and ‘abuse’ Amber Heard as well as wreck her career after they split up.
Amber Heard strides into the High Court with her girlfriend Bianca Butti as she prepares to give evidence for the final time in the bombshell libel trial. Mr Depp (pictured today) is accused of going into rages while on drink and drugs and since splitting with Ms Heard she alleges he has run a campaign of harassment
The carnage in a property in Australia after Depp and Heard allegedly had a fight in 2015, which was released as part of Ben King’s evidence a week ago
Depp is on the stand at the High Court for a third day today and was questioned about the incident after he previously claimed the injury was sustained when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him during the fight in Australia. Mr Depp also has a cigaretted burn on his right cheek, but is ex-wife denies it was her
Depp insisted that the only attack on the trip had been launched by Heard when she hurled a vodka bottle at him and caused the infamous injury which cut off the top of his finger
Amber Heard’s third day of cross-examination by Johnny Depp’s lawyers began on Wednesday with Eleanor Laws QC asking about the alleged incident in Australia in March 2015, which Ms Heard has described as a ‘three-day hostage situation’.
Ms Laws put it to the actress that she ‘worked yourself into a rage, screaming at him’ and threw a glass bottle, adding: ‘Because you would get yourself into rages on occasions.’
Ms Heard said: ‘No, I got angry at times but not into a rage that would cause me to throw anything at him.’
Mr Justice Nicol clarified her answer by repeating that she would sometimes get angry, and Ms Heard continued: ‘But not to the extent where I would throw anything at him offensively.’
Ms Laws said: ‘I’m going to suggest you threw a bottle at his head and it smashed the mirror behind him.’
Ms Heard said the majority of bottles were thrown downstairs. She told the court: ‘I would like to be clear, I did break a bottle but it was very early on in that evening, it was the second evening, if I recall correctly, and it was before Johnny had started to throw the bottles at me.
‘We were in an argument about whether he was going to drink … the liquor. When I confronted him about it he offered me the bottle … he said, ‘here, take it’.
‘He said, ‘Oh yeah, you want it? Here, take it’, and at that point drinking had already been … he had already given it up for a while and it was on the list of ‘if this happens, I leave’ sort of thing. It was no fly.
‘And he gestured to offer it to me and I reached to take it and he pulled it back.
‘He was teasing me to take it and would revoke it when I reached (for it).
‘Then he did it again and I have in my head all the times that he said that I saved his life, and I thought honestly I could short circuit (a row about drinking).
‘So I reached for it a second time and I smashed it on the floor in between Johnny and I.
‘I regret I did that.’
Describing the alleged bottle attack, Ms Heard said: ‘He started picking them up one by one and throwing them like grenades.
‘One after the other after the other, in my direction, and I felt glass breaking behind me, I retreated more into the bar and he didn’t stop.
‘I was too scared to look behind me. He threw all the bottles that were in reach, all except for one which was a celebratory magnum-sized bottle of wine.’
Ms Heard said she remembered that was the only bottle not smashed out of 30 or so.
The actress then said: ‘He (Mr Depp) told me over and over again that my work in trying to get him clean and sober … when he was clean and sober he would tell me I saved his life.’
In response to Ms Laws disputing her version of events, she said: ‘Absolutely not, Ms Laws, I was there, I watched it.
‘I would be shocked if Johnny remembers any of this himself, but I was there.’
Ms Laws put it to Ms Heard that Mr Depp’s finger was not severed as a result of his hand smashing against the wall, which the actress disagreed with.
The barrister then said: ‘This injury was you throwing a bottle in his direction, smashing it down and severing the tip of his finger with glass, wasn’t it?’ Ms Heard replied: ‘No.’
Ms Laws referred to a photograph showing a mark on Mr Depp’s face and accused Ms Heard of stubbing a cigarette out on his cheek, which the actress denied, adding: ‘Johnny did that.’
Ms Laws said: ‘You did it, didn’t you?’ To which Ms Heard replied: ‘No, Johnny did it right in front of me, he often did things like that.’
Ms Laws said: ‘According to you, Mr Depp sliced his finger off all on his own … and then carried on attacking you.’
Ms Heard said: ‘Yes, he did. I don’t think he meant to sever the finger but yes he did continue the attack.’
Ms Laws said: ‘This was a nasty incident in which you were extremely violent.’ Ms Heard replied: ‘Absolutely not.’
Eleanor Laws QC then said: ‘And afterwards, we have got those tapes… when security arrived, you were screaming at Mr Depp not to leave and then in another moment calling him a f****** coward for going.’
Ms Heard said: ‘I didn’t hear it on the audio files.’
Pressed further she added: ‘No on both of those accusations, absolutely not. I was just in another room crying.’
There was an exchange between Ms Laws and Ms Heard about whether she had listened to the audio file and she confirmed she had only listened to part of it, but said it was the relevant part.
She told the court: ‘At the beginning of the tape, you can hear how it ended. It ended with Johnny (shouting) incoherently and I was in the bathroom crying.’
Ms Laws then asked the actress about her using the phrase ‘have you been so angry you’ve lost it?’
Amber Heard said: ‘I have referred to losing your cool as ‘losing it’. I specifically denied referencing it to Ben King.’
She added: ‘I said if I did use that phrase or anything like it, I would’ve been asking about Johnny’s behaviour, not my own.’
Ms Laws put it to Ms Heard that it was a phrase she had used about herself, and played part of an audio recording to the court, which was mostly inaudible in the overspill courtroom where the media are listening to proceedings.
The barrister then asked: ‘Is it true that sometimes you get so angry you lose it?’
Ms Heard replied: ‘Sometimes I get angry enough that I lose my cool.’
Depp also admitted to doing graffiti on a bathroom mirror after the fight with Heard, which resulted in his finger being severed. He admitted that some of it was done with his blood and some with paint
During their visits to Australia in 2015, the couple stayed in this mansion owned by former MotoGp champion Mick Doohan
Ms Heard, who started her third day of evidence this morning, claims the megastar actor, 57, and his allies have tried to ’embarrass and harass me and the people around me, including potential witnesses’ ahead of his extraordinary London libel trial.
In a new witness statement published today, the actress, 34, said she was ‘eager for this trial to proceed’ claiming her ex-husband’s ‘campaign has affected my professional life, my personal life and my well-being. It has been extremely upsetting’.
She said: ‘Johnny is so much more powerful than I am, in every way: physically, financially, and professionally. By leaving him I escaped the physical abuse, but for the past four years he has used his power and resources to continue the harassment and abuse through the various legal proceedings he has dragged me into and the publicity campaign his team has run alongside those proceedings’.
She added: ‘I have been subjected to a campaign of targeted online abuse on social media, as well as online petitions calling for me to be removed from any future sequel to Aquaman and from my association with L’Oreal. It has also been aimed at what is most important to me: my humanitarian work, including my partnerships with the United Nations (UN) and non-governmental organisations, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and many others, and the important work that these organisations do’.
Today Ms Heard is expected to give her final evidence with her ex-husband Johnny Depp feet away as the biggest English libel trial of the 21st century comes to a head.
Ms Heard, who smiled and waved as she walked into the Royal Courts of Justice with Bianca Butti, has been in the witness box for the past three days where she claimed she feared Mr Depp, 57, was ‘going to kill’ her on several occasions.
Amber has said that the megastar would blame his ‘alter ego’ called ‘the monster’ for the alleged violence while intoxicated with copious amounts of drink and drugs.
On another extraordinary day at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday, Ms Heard claimed that Mr Depp once pushed supermodel Kate Moss down the stairs during their relationship in the 1990s. The actress said that was why she had punched the actor – over fears he was about to do the same to her younger sister Whitney.
Amber also denied that she had an affair with Elon Musk, James Franco or ‘anybody else’ while she was with Johnny Depp, who she claimed was ‘jealous’ and accused her of sleeping with at least eight co-stars and also Leonardo DiCaprio after an audition, giving DiCaprio the nickname ‘pumpkin-head’.
But the actress was accused of changing her story about being ‘backhanded’ by Depp in a so-called ‘disco bloodbath’ – after she saw a picture of the couple with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in which Ms Heard does not have any visible injuries to her face.
Amber Heard and her girlfriend Bianca Butti went sightseeing through Central London yesterday after her court appearance
The couple were having a ‘nasty row’ at the top of stairs in March 2015 when Whitney, then 26, tried to intervene, the court heard.
Accused of punching the Pirates Of The Caribbean star with her closed fist, Miss Heard, 34, replied: ‘I did strike Johnny that day in defence of my sister.
‘He was about to push her down the stairs and, the moment before that happened, I remembered information I had heard that he pushed a former girlfriend – I believe it was Kate Moss – down the stairs. I had heard this rumour from two people and it was fresh in my mind. And in a flash I reacted in defence of her.
‘I have been for years Johnny’s punching bag – it was the first time I actually struck him back.’
Eleanor Laws QC, for Depp, accused Miss Heard of ‘just making this up as you go along’, saying she had ‘added’ Miss Moss – whom Depp dated in the 1990s – to her evidence. Miss Heard admitted she had never mentioned it before, in any statements or previous explanations of the incident.
Miss Heard said: ‘He was about to push my sister down the stairs. My baby sister. She has never hurt anyone in her life.
‘I would have done anything to prevent her being pushed down a flight of stairs.’
Miss Laws said: ‘You are making this up as you go along, throwing in details, new details, which you have thought of literally on your feet to make your account more credible.’
Miss Heard replied: ‘Of course not.’
Miss Laws said: ‘You don’t want to admit the truth, which is that you are violent, do you?’
Miss Heard said: ‘Only in self-defence.’
There was no response from Miss Moss’s spokesperson yesterday for requests to comment.
Ms Heard sketched giving evidence during the bombshell libel proceedings brought by Mr Depp against The Sun after being branded a ‘wife-beater’
Amber Heard made the sensational claim that Johnny Depp pushed British supermodel Kate Moss down the stairs while they dated in the 1990s (pictured together in New York in 1994)
‘Johnny’s the boss’: Amber Heard claims it was Depp’s decision to bring their terriers Boo and Pistol into Australia illegally
Amber Heard today denied it was her decision to take their dogs Boo and Pistol into Australia illegally in 2015 and said: ‘When Johnny wanted something it happened’
The actress said she took the blame to avoid disrupting her then-husband’s filming schedule for Pirates of the Caribbean.
The barrister read a series of emails sent between Ms Heard and Mr Depp’s then-estate manager Kevin Murphy, in which Mr Murphy told her that ‘the dogs will not be allowed to fly commercial in the passenger compartment to Australia’.
Ms Heard told Mr Murphy that she did not want to put the dogs in ‘cargo’, and said: ‘Unless there’s another way to get them there or get them on the plane with J.’
A photograph of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s pet Yorkshire Terriers Pistol and Boo, who were taken into Australia illegally
Heard and Depp at Southport Magistrates’ Court in Australia in April 2016. Heard received a $1,000 fine and a one-month good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to one count of falsifying border protection documents when entering the country with the dogs
Eleanor Laws, QC for Mr Depp, said: ‘You were told by Kevin Murphy, who had been doing quite a lot of work on this, that he wasn’t able to get the documentation ready in time.’
Ms Heard said: ‘No … this is a process that had been going on for about six months and I was out of the country filming a movie, I wasn’t there with Johnny so it was quite confusing to me.’
She added: ‘When Johnny wanted something it happened. He always found a way to make it work.’
Ms Heard continued: ‘He told me when I landed. I was only in LA for a matter of hours before we got on his plane for his movie on his flight with his staff.’
She said Mr Depp told her ‘everything had been taken care of’, adding: ‘I had no reason to get any clarity.’
Eleanor Laws QC put it to Amber Heard: ‘You took a decision to take them (the dogs) anyway.’
Ms Heard replied: ‘It wasn’t my decision.’
She added: ‘Johnny’s the boss.’
Ms Laws said: ‘You are the boss, aren’t you?’
Ms Heard said: ‘I didn’t call any of the shots. This is Johnny’s plane, Johnny’s crew, Johnny’s staff.’
She also said: ‘We both filled out the same entry cards… we both filled out the same thing, yet I took the charges because if Johnny got charges it would have further compromised Pirates (Of The Caribbean), which was already compromised.’
Ms Laws suggested that every time Ms Heard was asked a question ‘you used it as an opportunity to say something negative about Mr Depp’.
She added: ‘You knew full well that you shouldn’t have taken those dogs.’
Ms Heard replied: ‘Johnny told me that we would bring the dogs in.’
Ms Laws asked: ‘What about Kevin Murphy?’
Ms Heard said: ‘That’s Johnny’s staff.’
She also said: ‘I was the only one to get charged so I plead guilty… I took the blame.’
Ms Laws then suggested that Ms Heard tried to ‘shunt the blame’ on to Kate James, her former assistant.
Ms Heard replied: ‘I plead guilty, why would I need to do that?’
Amber Heard claims she had ‘plenty of injuries’ despite her mark-free face when she appeared on The Late, Late Show with James Corden, High Court told
Amber Heard claimed that just 24 hours before she appeared on the Late Late Show with James Cordon show on December 16 2015.
She claims that Depp launched a vicious attack which left her with ‘tons of injuries’ including: bruised ribs and arms, bruises all over her body, two black eyes, a broken nose and a broken lip.
Heard poses with guests Luke Bracey and Wanda Skyes on the Late, Late Show with James Corden on December 16, 2015
Amber Heard claimed that Johnny Depp physically abused her one day before she was on The Late, Late Show with James Corden on on December 16, 2015 (above) – and said after her appearance that she ‘just did that show with two black eyes’
The court was then played footage of Heard’s appearance on the show, with her face immaculately made up and no visible marks on it.
Ms Laws said: ‘That’s what you looked like on the show, no injury is there?’
Heard replied: ‘I have tonnes of injuries.’
Ms Laws alleged that the night before her appearance on the James Cordon show, it was Heard who was violent towards Depp and that she attacked him.
Heard claims that during the fight, Depp dragged her around their Los Angeles penthouse by her hair, knocked her to the floor, pushed her onto a bed and then jumped on top of her so hard that it broke and also headbutted her.
Describing the headbutt, which Depp claims was accidental and not forceful in the way Heard claims, she told the court: ‘His head came into contact with mine very deliberately. He clenched his fists, leant back and slammed his head into my nose.’
Ms Laws claimed that prior to appearing on the James Cordon show she was seen without any makeup by her stylist Samantha McMillan and that she did not notice any injuries to her face.
Photographs were issued by Heard’s legal team of her with injuries to her face around the time of the alleged attack on December 15, 2015, showing bruising across the bridge of her nose and under her eyes after Depp allegedly headbutted her. Depp is believed to have been shown these pictures in court last week while he was giving evidence
Ms Heard told the court there were two bedrooms in penthouse five of the Eastern Columbia Building in LA, which were used for clothing, jewellery, hair and makeup.
Ms Laws asked the actress about an alleged incident in December 2015, the night before Ms Heard appeared on James Corden’s The Late Late Show, when she says Mr Depp headbutted her.
The barrister said stylist Samantha McMillen saw Ms Heard shortly before her appearance on the chat show and said in her evidence that the actress was not wearing makeup, with which Ms Heard disagreed.
Ms Heard said Ms McMillen saw her while she was already having her makeup done.
She said Ms McMillen was her stylist for a short time while she was married to Mr Depp, adding: ‘She is Johnny’s stylist.’
Ms Laws said: ‘You had a row which turned violent and you were attacking him and he was restraining you, do you agree or not?’
Ms Heard said: ‘No he only came up with that story after hearing the audio.’
Ms Laws said: ‘Do you agree or disagree?’ To which Ms Heard replied: ‘I disagree.’
Ms Laws said: ‘And his head came into contact with yours, not deliberately at all.’
Ms Heard said: ‘Very deliberately.’ She added: ‘He clenched his fists, leaned back and slammed his head directly into mine.’
Ms Laws said: ‘Do you agree that you caused injury to Mr Depp’s face on that night?’ Ms Heard replied: ‘I don’t see how I could have, I’m sorry.’
Ms Laws put it to Ms Heard that a photograph of her with bruises on her face taken after the alleged December 2015 incident was ‘completely set up’, which Ms Heard denied.
Ms Laws then said: ‘If someone is grabbing you by the hair and pulling your hair out, it would come out at the root.’
Ms Heard said: ‘No of course not, of course not. It comes out wherever it breaks.’
Ms Laws then asked the actress why she took a photograph of her scalp, and Ms Heard said her scalp was ‘in pain’ and her friend Raquel Pennington took a photograph because she had red spots on her head and it was ‘pussy’ from where it had been pulled out.
A short clip of Ms Heard’s appearance on The Late Late Show was then played to the court, following which Ms Laws said: ‘That is what you looked like on the show, there is no injury, is there?’
Ms Heard replied: ‘I had tonnes of injuries.’ She then said she had makeup on covering the injuries and added: ‘You can tell by the size of my lip alone.’
Ms Laws asked Ms Heard about her first allegation of violence against Mr Depp, which she says happened after she remarked on his ‘Wino Forever’ tattoo.
Ms Heard said it was the ‘first time I had been hit like that since I was a child’, adding: ‘It didn’t feel painful necessarily, it just felt like a pop.
‘The first time he hit me, I didn’t even know he was serious, I was laughing, I thought he was joking … I just didn’t know.’
She said she was left with ‘just redness’ on her face, adding: ‘My eye didn’t pop out.’
The actress then said she had told her therapist about it at the time.
Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of a four-year harassment campaign after split
Amber Heard today claimed Johnny Depp and his lawyers have run a four-year campaign to ‘harass’ and ‘abuse’ their as well as wreck her career after they split up.
Ms Heard, who started her third day of evidence this morning, claims the megastar actor, 57, and his allies have tried to ’embarrass and harass me and the people around me, including potential witnesses’ ahead of his extraordinary London libel trial.
In a new witness statement published today, the actress, 34, said she was ‘eager for this trial to proceed’ claiming her ex-husband’s ‘campaign has affected my professional life, my personal life and my well-being. It has been extremely upsetting’.
She said: ‘Johnny is so much more powerful than I am, in every way: physically, financially, and professionally. By leaving him I escaped the physical abuse, but for the past four years he has used his power and resources to continue the harassment and abuse through the various legal proceedings he has dragged me into and the publicity campaign his team has run alongside those proceedings’.
She added: ‘I have been subjected to a campaign of targeted online abuse on social media, as well as online petitions calling for me to be removed from any future sequel to Aquaman and from my association with L’Oreal. It has also been aimed at what is most important to me: my humanitarian work, including my partnerships with the United Nations (UN) and non-governmental organisations, like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and many others, and the important work that these organisations do’.
Self-harm
Johnny Depp’s lawyer Eleanor Laws QC challenged Amber Heard’s testimony of the incident, suggesting that scars she claims were inflicted by Depp depicted in photos shown in court were ‘far more akin’ to self-harm scars
Scars on Amber Heard’s arm were the result of self-harm rather than a brutal attack by Johnny Depp, his QC suggested.
Miss Heard said they were inflicted during a terrifying ordeal in Australia in March 2015 – which she has termed the ‘three-day hostage situation’ – at a house they rented while Depp filmed one of the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies.
She said yesterday: ‘I had been strangled, assaulted, punched, sexually assaulted, strangled, among other things.’
She claimed that Depp had guzzled whisky and ecstasy tablets before hitting and choking her, smashing bottles and throwing her around on a kitchen top strewn with broken glass in the incident in which he drunkenly severed his own finger before daubing ‘I love u’ with his blood on a mirror.
She told the court, her voice cracking with emotion: ‘I was trying to push him off me. I was saying, ‘Johnny, it’s me, you’re really hurting me, stop please’ – it’s like he couldn’t hear me.’
She added: ‘He pulled me around by my neck and pushed me down against the bar, I was against the bar, naked, bent over backwards, my back against the marble.
‘He was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn’t breathe. I was trying to tell him that I couldn’t breathe. I remember thinking he was going to kill me in that moment. The floor was wet and I was slipping.’
She said she could not get any purchase on the floor or the countertop ‘from all the broken bottles’.
Miss Heard said she still bore scars on her arm. A photo taken on April 18, a month later, at the Tribeca Music Festival in New York, was shared on Twitter, and the court also saw other photos.
Eleanor Laws QC, for Depp, asked her: ‘These are not scars sustained while you are writhing around, trying to get away from Mr Depp – jagged, uneven – they are straight in line, aren’t they?’
Mr Justice Nicol intervened to ask: ‘It is suggested these are not scars sustained in the Australia attack – do you agree?’ Miss Heard did not.
Miss Laws said: ‘These are far more akin to self-harm scars, straight and inflicted by you, and certainly not in a struggle with Mr Depp.’
But Miss Heard replied: ‘I have had these scars on my arm since that evening and I have never self-harmed.’
And she added: ‘Johnny’s a self-harmer, I’m not a self-harmer.’
KEITH RICHARDS PHOTO
The actress was accused of changing her story about being ‘backhanded’ by Depp in a so-called ‘disco bloodbath’ – after she saw a picture of the couple with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in which Miss Heard does not have any visible injuries to her face.
The photo was taken on March 23, 2013. Miss Heard had initially claimed Depp smacked her on March 21 but she later changed this to March 8.
She said Depp had become jealous of a painting her ex-partner Tasya van Ree put up in their bedroom, and that in a drug-fuelled rampage he had tried to set fire to it and had hit her so hard that the wall was ‘spattered’ with blood from her lip.
Miss Laws suggested Miss Heard had altered her account after seeing the photo of her, her sister Whitney and Depp with Richards, saying: ‘You have changed the date in order to explain away the clear face in the photo.
‘You have woven a web of lies that you have had to shift and change according to when evidence has emerged.’
Miss Heard replied: ‘I disagree.’
PLASTER CAST
The actress was also accused of ‘a complete lie’ over her claims that Depp grabbed her hair with one hand and punched her with the other in March 2015.
It was impossible, said Miss Laws, since the actor’s right hand was swathed in bandages – Depp had chosen a children’s dinosaur design for fun – following the severing of his finger in Australia during a previous row. Miss Heard told the court she wasn’t lying, saying: ‘He grabbed my hair with this hand, and hit me with the hard plastic cast. It was especially unpleasant.’
Miss Laws said the actress had not mentioned the plaster cast before, and suggested that if it had been true it would have been ‘a primary feature of the assault’ that Miss Heard would have wanted to record.
‘BLACKMAIL’
Miss Heard was accused of trying to extort and blackmail the star as they divorced. Her list of demands included three LA penthouses and a black Range Rover.
A letter from her lawyers demanded Depp’s ‘immediate co-operation’ to complete the divorce quickly and without publicity. She also peppered the star with text messages saying ‘Please call me, it’s important’, ‘please!’ and ’emergency!’, the court heard.
Miss Laws said: ‘It’s blackmail, isn’t it?’ The actress said: ‘No.’ Miss Heard filed her divorce declaration on May 26, 2016 – five days after the alleged phone-throwing incident – and obtained a court restraining order the following day, saying she was ‘petrified’ that her husband would return to the apartment.
Miss Laws suggested this was ‘not true’. The actress replied: ‘I was petrified of the monster that Johnny could become.’
OUT WITH FRIENDS
Miss Heard was also pictured apparently enjoying herself with friends in the days after the May 21 phone-hurling incident, during which she claimed her husband had been ‘drunk and high’ and smashed ‘everything he could’ in the apartment with a magnum bottle of champagne.
Three days later, CCTV footage from the lift of her apartment building showed her going out with her sister Whitney and friend Rocky Pennington, coming back at 11pm with wine.
Miss Heard has been accused of faking her injuries with help from her friends, in what Depp’s legal team claims was part of a ‘hoax’.
FAECES ON THE BED
Amber Heard has rubbished accusations that she defecated in Johnny Depp’s bed, as bombshell photographs of faeces at the centre of their bitter court row were made public for the first time
In the latest twist to what was dubbed ‘Poogate’ by Miss Heard and her friends, the actress vehemently denied she was responsible for leaving ‘disgusting’ human excrement on the bed she shared with Depp in their Los Angeles penthouse on her 30th birthday. She blamed it on their dog Boo, who was unwell after it ate some of the star’s drug stash, the court heard.
Depp says he made up his mind to divorce his wife after being informed about the faeces.
Miss Laws asked Miss Heard: ‘You left human excrement on the bed?’ Miss Heard responded: ‘That’s absolutely disgusting.’
Asked if any of her friends had left it, she replied: ‘No, of course not. That’s unimaginable to me.’
She claimed Boo, Depp’s Yorkshire terrier, had had a problem with her bowels since eating cannabis that belonged to Depp when she was a puppy.
The case continues.