Jurors in Johnny Depp’s libel trial in opposition to his ex-wife, Amber Heard, noticed photographs on Monday of her with alleged crimson marks and swelling on her face after their ultimate combat earlier than their divorce, and heard testimony about her experience in overlaying up bruises with make-up.
Heard concluded her direct testimony in a Virginia courtroom with a 3rd day that was centred on the ultimate months of her marriage to Depp.
His legal professionals started their cross-examination later within the afternoon.
The trial is now in its fifth week, and jurors have seen a number of photographs of Heard all through the trial that purport to doc the abuse she mentioned she acquired throughout her relationship with Depp.
A number of of the photographs proven on Monday, although, had not beforehand been seen by the jury and confirmed redness and swelling rather more clearly than earlier photographs.
Heard mentioned the marks got here when Depp threw a telephone at her face.
The confrontation in Might 2016 prompted Heard to file for divorce two days later. A number of days after that, she obtained a brief restraining order after a courthouse listening to, and was broadly photographed leaving the courthouse with a transparent crimson mark on her proper cheek.
The ultimate combat has been a key level within the couple’s ongoing dispute.
Depp is suing Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court docket for libel over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Publish describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse".
His legal professionals say he was defamed by the article regardless that it by no means talked about his title.
Depp says he by no means struck Heard and that she’s concocting claims she was abused.
Earlier within the trial, jurors heard from law enforcement officials who responded to emergency calls throughout that ultimate combat who mentioned Heard’s face regarded crimson from crying however that they noticed no seen bruises. Witnesses additionally testified that they didn’t see bruises on Heard’s face within the instant days after the combat.
Heard, in her testimony on Monday, mentioned she didn’t cooperate with officers who responded to the couple’s penthouse, and mentioned her face-to-face interactions with officers have been very restricted.
She additionally mentioned her make-up routine, utilizing a color correction wheel that she known as her “bruise package” to cowl up marks on her face. She mentioned she realized over time to make use of inexperienced shades within the first day of a bruise to cowl up redness, and change extra to orange shades because the bruise turned blue and purple.
“I’m not going to stroll round LA with bruises on my face,” she mentioned.
On cross-examination, Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez questioned Heard about a number of photographs of her that appeared to not present bruises regardless that they have been taken inside days of alleged abuse incidents. Heard mentioned she used make-up to cowl bruises and ice to scale back swelling.
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“It's best to see what it regarded like beneath the make-up,” she mentioned.
Vasquez additionally questioned Heard about her $US7 million divorce settlement from Depp.
Heard pledged to donate the complete quantity to charity however has up to now solely donated a portion of it. She testified she’s been unable to fulfil her pledge but as a result of Depp sued her for $50 million. However on cross-examination she acknowledged that she had acquired the complete $US7 million from Depp months earlier than he filed the lawsuit.
In her direct testimony, Heard testified she didn't wish to publicly expose Depp as an abuser in her courtroom proceedings, however needed to go to the courthouse to offer testimony to acquire the restraining order, and he or she was bowled over when she left the courthouse surrounded by paparazzi.
“I simply needed to alter my locks,” she mentioned about why she went to courtroom to get the restraining order.
“I simply needed to get an excellent evening’s sleep.”
Throughout Monday’s testimony, Heard additionally strongly denied an accusation from Depp that she left human fecal matter within the couple’s mattress after a combat. Heard mentioned it was the couple’s teacup Yorkshire terrier that messed the mattress and that it had a historical past of bowel issues ever because it had by chance ingested Depp’s marijuana.
“Completely not,” she mentioned in regards to the alleged poop prank.
“I don’t suppose that’s humorous. I don’t know what grown girl does. I used to be not in a pranking temper.”
Heard mentioned, although, that Depp turned obsessive about the concept somebody had pooped in his mattress. She mentioned it was all he needed to speak about throughout that ultimate combat on Might 21, 2016, regardless that Depp’s mom had simply died and the couple hadn’t spoken in a month.
The poop allegation is one among a number of that Depp’s on-line followers have notably latched onto of their social media critiques of Heard.
Heard additionally talked in regards to the op-ed piece itself, saying staffers with the American Civil Liberties Union — for whom she had began work as an envoy — wrote the primary draft. She mentioned she was pleased to lend her voice to the talk over home violence, and wasn’t meaning to reference Depp.
“It’s not about Johnny,” she mentioned.
“The one one who thought it was about Johnny was Johnny. It was about me, and my life after Johnny.”
Heard concluded her testimony by saying that accusations she receives each day from Depp supporters that she’s mendacity in regards to the abuse are “torture.”
“I wish to transfer on with my life,” she mentioned.
“I need Johnny to maneuver on. I need him to go away me alone.”