After the He says chapter (summary: I’m the victim, she wants to ruin me), the 36-year-old has now started a hardcore contrast program. According to that, Depp is what a British postal is legally allowed to claim regarding the 58-year-old star of blockbusters such as “Pirates of the Caribbean”: a habitual “wife beater” under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
In the wake of #MeToo
The civil lawsuit originally stems from a four-year-old article by Heard in the Washington Post. In it, she writes regarding her experiences with domestic violence in the wake of the #MeToo movement, without mentioning Depp’s name.
Depp felt slandered and sued for $50 million. Heard countered with a $100 million lawsuit. She doesn’t want to be seen as a liar. Lawyers who follow the up to eight-hour sessions in the Fairfax District Court just outside Washington DC are already seeing an outcome like the Hornberger shooting: “Nobody gets money here if the jury thinks Depp and Heard are equally credible.”
An ultra-toxic love-hate relationship
At the start of her interrogation, which will last until next week, Heard flipped through the chronicle of an ultra-toxic love-hate relationship in an actor-ready manner. When the sky was still full of violins, autumn 2011, they shared preferences for poetry, music and painting. “I felt like the most beautiful woman in the world.” Until it tipped. insults. Curses. jealousies. violence once morest things. “Johnny loves to break things.”
Her first experience of physical violence – which Depp completely denies under oath (“I have never hit a woman”) – came regarding like this: The couple was sitting on the couch together in 2013. Alcohol and cocaine are involved. Lots of cocaine. Heard notices a strange tattoo on her lover’s arm. She asks. He says it means “wino”. But doesn’t explain that it was originally called “Winona” – following his ex, actress Winona Ryder. Heart laughs. He punches her in the face and etches: “You think you’re a funny bitch?!”. Then it delivers two more blows. “That changed my life,” says Heard, “I knew I had to leave him.”
