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At trial against Johnny Depp, Amber Heard says she receives "thousands" of death threats

2022-05-27T09:00:26.476Z


The end of the Heard-Depp trial is approaching and the actress revealed, Thursday, May 26, to be the victim of moral harassment from thousands of people.


"I receive death threats regularly, even every day," said Amber Heard, called to the stand during the last day of hearing witnesses.

Indeed, the 36-year-old actress claimed, this Thursday, May 26, 2022, to have received “thousands of death threats” since the start of her trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp, who is suing her for defamation in court. American.

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A statement that comes as the trial ends.

Lawyers for both parties are due to present their closing arguments this Friday, May 27, and the seven jurors will then retire to deliberate.

If they do not reach a verdict during the day, they will continue their deliberations next Tuesday.

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In video, Amber Heard says she received “thousands” of death threats

“I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every day, just because I am in this courtroom”, said Amber Heard, very moved.

"People laugh at my testimony about the assaults, people want to kill me, they tell me every day, they want to put my baby in the microwave and they tell me," said the actress, mother of a little girl.

"Every day I have to relive the trauma" of the domestic abuse she claims to have suffered during her relationship with Johnny Depp, she said.

The trial "was the most excruciating, painful and humiliating thing I have ever had to experience," she said.

Stir in the room

The actress, who appeared in

Justice League

and

Aquaman

, has been the subject of a campaign of denigration and insults on social networks since the start of this ultra-publicized trial in the court of Fairfax, near Washington.

Every day, hundreds of Johnny Depp fans line up outside the building's entrance and in the courtroom to show their support for the

Pirates of the Caribbean

star .

The hushed atmosphere that has prevailed in this room since April 11 was disrupted Thursday, after a heated exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's lawyer, by comments from members of the public quickly reprimanded by Judge Penney Azcarate, who threatened to continue the trial behind closed doors.

Reminder of the charges

These six weeks of debates have brought to light the sordid details of a relationship enamelled by disputes and, according to Amber Heard, violence when Johnny Depp was under the influence of a cocktail of drugs and alcohol.

Johnny Depp, meanwhile, is suing Amber Heard for defamation, who described herself in a column published in the Washington Post in 2018 as "a public figure representing domestic violence" suffered two years earlier, without naming her ex-husband.

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The 58-year-old actor denies ever hitting a woman and denounces "mind-boggling" accusations.

He claims 50 million dollars in damages, believing that this platform has ruined his reputation and his career.

The actress counterattacked and asked for the double, saying that this complaint is an extension of a campaign of “harassment” which put her career on hold.

"Tell My Story"

In 2020, Johnny Depp lost a first libel suit in London against British tabloid

The Sun

, which called him an "abusive husband".

This trial is "an echo of the other room (court) in which he dragged me," said Amber Heard, referring to the London trial.

She repeated that she suffered “verbal, physical, emotional and psychological abuse” from Johnny Depp during their relationship, between 2011 and 2016.

“I am not a saint,” she said when referring to her first testimony, ten days ago, when she admitted to having hit her ex-husband at least once.

She explained that she wrote this forum on domestic violence "to bring these issues to light, to give a voice to people who do not have one".

In May 2016, Amber Heard had obtained from a court a removal order against her husband for domestic violence, after a year of marriage.

Their divorce was finalized in early 2017.

"I have the right to tell my story, I have the right to say what happened" and to "tell my own story and my truth", she asserted, accusing Johnny Depp of having “promised to destroy (his) career” and subject him to “global humiliation”.

Source: lefigaro

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