‘Why didn’t she leave?’: Depp’s defamation trial Week Two recap

Published April 23, 2022 9:15am ET




Actor Johnny Depp spent most of the second week of his defamation trial on the stand, testifying that he’d never hit ex-wife Amber Heard and saying she would have left “if she was scared to death.”

This last week of the trial against Heard in Fairfax, Virginia, included testimony on Depp’s severed finger, substance abuse issues, and vulgar messages.

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