Actress Amber Heard presented a video she’d secretly recorded on her phone as evidence on the seventh day of her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against her.
The video featured Depp slamming and kicking cabinets in his West Hollywood home while cursing and pouring himself an unusually large glass of wine. At the end of the video, Depp finds the phone and throws it across the room.
“Do we have a date for this illegally recorded thing?” Depp asked after seeing the video in court. Heard’s lawyer did not mention a date.
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“It’s quite fitting with the rest of the photographs and tape recordings she made,” Depp responded. “So, yes, I did assault a couple of cabinets, but I did not touch Ms. Heard.”
“If she was intimidated, why was she filming?” Depp said later. “If she was scared to death, why didn’t she leave?”
Heard’s lawyer also recounted the night the actor said he had his finger severed during a fight with his then-wife. When Depp testified on the incident, he said he was “in shock” and wound up writing phrases on the walls and lampshades in his blood. On Thursday, it was revealed that one of the phrases written was “starring Billy Bob and easy Amber” in reference to the 2018 film London Fields featuring Heard and Billy Bob Thornton.
During an audio recording submitted by Depp’s legal team, the actor is heard saying: “I’m talking about Australia, the day I chopped my finger off.”
Depp claimed that he did not mean he’d cut his own finger off and would have phrased it that way if he had.
Another audio recording captured yet another fight between the two, this time about how others were hearing them fight.
“My 16-year-old daughter heard you saying s*** that she would rather not hear,” Depp told Heard.
“My family, my friends, everyone around me saw all the bruises, and [the] broken blood vessel under my eye, the bruises on my hip, missing chunks of hair, the split lip, the black eye, the swollen nose, all that shit because you’re stronger,” Heard said.
Depp’s lawyers prevented any further questions surrounding that audio clip because any testimony on what others saw would constitute “hearsay.”
“Thanks for exposing me,” Heard goes on in the audio. “Don’t do it again unless you want me to really also tell them my side of things.”
“You’re welcome to,” Depp replied.
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Lawyers will continue to cross-examine Depp on Monday. In the meantime, the jury is not being sequestered but has been told to stay away from all media references to the case and not to discuss the case with anyone.
