Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, at a time during the session this Monday in the lawsuit that confronts them in Fairfax, Virginia (United States).STEVE HELBER (AFP)
Johnny Depp's trial against Amber Heard resumed its sessions on Monday after a week of interruption.
And he did it with a marathon session in which the actress was first questioned by her lawyer and then by Depp's lawyer.
In the first part, she attacked her ex-husband and said that if she asked for a divorce it was because she thought that without him she would not survive.
In the second, the tension was increasing and the lawyer put Heard in trouble.
In the court of Fairfax (Virginia) a lawsuit of 50 million dollars from Depp against Heard is being settled, answered by the actress with a request of 100 million.
But in addition, the trial is leaving an incalculable emotional toll, to which Heard referred: “The most intimate, shameful and deeply humiliating things that I have survived are used against me every day, over and over again.
It is torture.
I'm in a lot of pain, emotionally.
I have a baby.
I want to keep going forward.
I want Johnny to move on too.
I want him to leave me alone,” she said.
Heard had been booed on arrival at the courthouse by people milling outside, in contrast to Depp, cheered on arrival in a large black car.
Looking at the cameras, the actor joked that they were his relatives.
At the beginning of her statement, the actress corrected the testimony of previous sessions to ensure that the abuse by her ex-partner had begun in 2012, and not in 2013, as she had declared.
"I wish the period when we were in love, he was sober and he didn't hit me lasted longer than he did."
Actress Amber Heard, this Monday.
POOL (REUTERS)
One of the incidents he recounted in Monday morning's session happened during his honeymoon, in 2015, when they were traveling on the Orient Express.
He had been sober for a while and they argued because he wanted to drink.
He did it and then they fought in the sleeping car, according to the actress.
“It was a small, narrow sleeping car, and there were two beds, one on each side.
He had me against the wall as he stood on the floor between the beds, and I was on the bed half kneeling, half standing, trying to get his arms around my neck.
And he pressed my neck against the boxcar for what seemed like a very long time.”
She said that she was afraid that Depp would accidentally kill her.
The actress has also maintained that it was not she who had given Depp burns or cuts, but that he self-inflicted them and that he pressed a lit cigarette against his cheek.
She also recounted a discussion, illustrated by video, about her opposition to his recording her without permission.
Likewise, the actress has tried to explain the recording broadcast over and over again in which she is heard saying that she has hit Depp: "He hit me proactively and I had to resort to hitting him reactively," she said.
"I knew if I didn't I'll likely not literally survive": #AmberHeard got emotional when talking about filing for divorce from #JohnnyDepp.
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One of the most scatological episodes, and the cause of one of the couple's last fights before separating, is the one in which the actor accuses the actress of leaving human excrement on his bed in April 2016. "It doesn't make sense", Heard has declared, assuring that it was feces from one of his dogs.
In May of that year, Depp's mother died, they both saw each other again (Heard says that Depp told her he needed to see her; the actor maintains that he only called her to inform her and to tell her that he wanted a divorce, but she asked to meet in person).
The discussion about the excrement came up again, they fought and the police showed up at her house, but she avoided accusing the actor: “I didn't want this to come to light.
I didn't want him to get in trouble.
I wanted to protect Johnny."
But there was no way to save the marriage no matter how hard he tried, according to his version.
“I knew I wouldn't survive if I didn't, so I filed for divorce.
I knew that if she didn't, she probably wouldn't literally survive."
"The person she was afraid of was also the person she was in love with," she added, after explaining that she had felt panic attacks and had started to lose hair from stress.
WATCH: #AmberHeard described how she used a color correction kit as part of her cover-up routine.
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In this Monday's session there was a moment for makeup.
Two weeks ago, during her exhibition, Heard's lawyer showed a corrective palette of different colors saying that it was what she had had to use the actress to cover the bruises and signs of the blows of her ex-partner.
But the product that she was teaching, from the Milani brand, did not actually hit the market until December 2017, as the company was in charge of confirming after a tremendous uproar on social networks.
This Monday, both Heard and her lawyer have tried to say that it was a product of that style, not necessarily that.
The theatrical play has betrayed Heard's lawyer at this point.
After the lunch break, it was the turn of Depp's lawyer to begin questioning the actress.
It has been a tense exchange, full of interruptions and protests.
The lawyer has started playing a recording in which Heard is heard telling her husband: "Tell the world, tell it ... I, Johnny Depp, man, I am also a victim of domestic violence."
He has also shown her photos taken shortly after the violent incidents she has recounted.
For example, images in public ka night after, according to her statement, she thought that he had broken her nose: "I should see how it looked under the makeup," she replied.
The lawyer has made the actress declare several times that she did not ask for medical assistance after these alleged attacks and that she never told anyone about the sexual assault that she says she was subjected to with a bottle, that she had been raped and that she had bled in the vagina .
"No, I didn't want to talk to anyone about it," the actress replied.
#JohnnyDepp's attorney questioned #AmberHeard about whether there were any medical records to support her allegation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a bottle.
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The actress has also been asked about the article she published in
The Washington Post
and which is at the origin of this lawsuit.
The actor alleges that she harmed him professionally and that it caused the cancellation of the last installment of
Pirates of the Caribbean
, the successful saga of which he has been the protagonist.
The trial, in fact, is held in Fairfax, because that is where the newspaper presses are that gave birth to the text by which Depp accuses Heard of defamation in a civil lawsuit.
The actress has stated about the article, that she did not mention Depp: “It's not about Johnny.
The only one who thought it was Johnny was Johnny.
It's about me.
It's about what happened to me after Johnny.
It's about what happened to me after I ran away from my marriage.
It's about me, my life and what I endured."
The lawyer asked him if he had sent a photo of Depp asleep and with spilled ice cream, which he called "embarrassing."
The actress herself said she didn't remember it, but the lawyer showed her a screenshot of the photo in a message to a friend in which she said: "This is what I'm dealing with."
“Is this you supporting Mr. Depp?” the lawyer asked.
“That's me getting support from my best friend.
I also need support,” she replied.
Monday's interrogation session ended with the lawyer revealing that she had reneged on her commitment to donate the seven million dollars from the divorce to two charities.
She defended herself by saying that she had stopped the donations due to the demand of her ex-husband, but that she hoped to resume them in the future and that they were already fully committed.
The lawyer replied that she had had more than a year before the lawsuit and had not donated the money.
The tension was growing, but the session ended.
“Ms.
Heard — respectfully, that's not my question”: #JohnnyDepp's attorney repeatedly told #AmberHeard “that's not my question” during a tense back-and-forth about her non-fulfilled pledge to donate her $7 million settlement to charity.
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Why Johnny Depp Hasn't Looked At Amber Heard During The Entire Trial
The questioning of Depp's lawyer to Heard had a curious moment, when he asked if he had noticed that the actor did not look at his ex-wife in the eyes.
Depp has spent most of the trial wearing dark glasses or avoiding eye contact with his ex-wife.
Lawyer.
Mr. Depp hasn't looked at her once in the entire trial, has he?
heard.
Not that I have noticed.
Do not.
Lawyer.
But you have looked at it many times, haven't you?
heard.
Yes.
Lawyer.
She knows exactly why Depp hasn't looked at you, doesn't she?
heard.
I know.
Lawyer.
She promised him that she would never see her eyes again.
Isn't that true?
heard.
I don't remember if she said that.
Lawyer.
One of the last times she saw Mr. Depp was when she met him in San Francisco in July 2016. Is that right?
heard.
That was the penultimate time I saw him.
Yes.
Lawyer.
And this was after you publicly accused him of domestic violence.
heard.
I got my restraining order before then, yeah.