Johnny Depp wins defamation trial against Amber Heard, awarded over $10m in damages

Johnny Depp, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, greeted patrons at a Newcastle pub in England about one hour before the jury in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard reached a verdict.

"Surreal to have met this man an hour before the verdict came in for him and I'm so pleased he's in my home town of Newcastle able to relax, celebrate and enjoy himself," wrote Gary Spedding, who posted the picture of Depp on Twitter.

Newcastle is in northeast England and a few miles from Gateshead, where Depp is scheduled to perform with guitarist Jeff Beck Thursday night as part of a music tour.

Depp wasn't in the courtroom Wednesday when the jury awarded him more than $10 million in damages finding that his ex-wife had defamed him by calling him an abuser in a 2018 op-ed.

The panel also found in Heard's favor as to one of her claims in her countersuit, awarding her $2 million.

Amber Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court during her ex-husband Johnny Depp's defamation trial against her. (Jim Lo Scalzo via Reuters)

The jury in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial delivered a verdict on Wednesday and awarded the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star with $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

Judge Penney Azcarate reduced Depp's punitive damages award from $5 million to $350,000 – the maximum under Virginia law, bringing the total sum to just over $10 million. 

Both parties issued separate statements following the news. "The disappointment I feel today is beyond words," Heard's statement said. "I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my ex-husband.

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FAIRFAX, Va. – Court watchers waiting outside the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial responded to the jury's verdict announced Wednesday.

"Shock, happiness," one woman, Nuha, told Fox News as she wiped away tears. "I never thought he'd win, so this is amazing."

The jury awarded Depp more than $10 million in the defamation lawsuit he'd filed against his ex-wife. The Pirates of the Caribbean star said Heard, who received $2 million for her own accusations, defamed him when she wrote in a 2018 op-ed that she was a victim of domestic abuse.

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Johnny Depp's lawyers, Ben Chew and Camille Vasquez, addressed reporters after the verdict June 1. (Screenshot)

Johnny Depp fans erupted in cheers as his lead lawyers, Ben Chew and Camille Vasquez, exited the courthouse and gave a brief statement.

"Today's verdict confirms what we had said from the beginning that the claims against Johnny Depp are defamatory and unsupported by any evidence We are grateful, so grateful to the jury for their careful deliberation, to the judge and the court staff," Vasquez said.

Chew said his team was "truly honored" to represent Depp and "pleased the trial resonated for so many people in the public who value truth and justice."

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in court May 3. (Jim Watson/pool via AP)

After Johnny Depp won his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, he released the following statement through his publicist.

"Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also, the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed." 

"All in the blink of an eye. False, very serious and criminal allegations were levied at me via the media, which triggered an endless barrage of hateful content, although no charges were ever brought against me. It had already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond and it had a seismic impact on my life and my career." 

"And six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled. My decision to pursue this case, knowing very well the height of the legal hurdles that I would be facing and the inevitable, worldwide spectacle into my life, was only made after considerable thought. 

"From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome. Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and to all those who have remained steadfast in their support of me.

"I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that. I am, and have been, overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and the colossal support and kindness from around the world. I hope that my quest to have the truth be told will have helped others, men or women, who have found themselves in my situation, and that those supporting them never give up."

"I also hope that the position will now return to innocent until proven guilty, both within the courts and in the media. I wish to acknowledge the noble work of the Judge, the jurors, the court staff and the Sheriffs who have sacrificed their own time to get to this point, and to my diligent and unwavering legal team who did an extraordinary job in helping me to share the truth. The best is yet to come and a new chapter has finally begun."

"Veritas numquam perit. Truth never perishes. "

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in court. (Jim Lo Scalzo via Reuters)

In a sweeping victory for Johnny Depp, the seven-member panel found in the actor's favor on all counts and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

In a token win for Amber Heard, the jury found that a single statement in her countersuit was defamatory and awarded her $2 million in compensatory damages and nothing in punitive damages.

The verdict indicates that the jury did not believe Depp had abused Heard. Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the $5 million punitive damages sum to $350,000 -- the maximum allowed under Virginia law.

Heard, flanked by her sister, ducked out of the courthouse without speaking to the press after the devastating loss.

Amber Heard exited the Virginia courthouse June 1 after ex-husband Johnny Depp won his defamation case against her. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

Amber Heard released a statement through her publicist shortly following the jury's decision to award her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, $15 million in damages in his defamation case against the "Aquaman" actress.

“The disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband," Heard said in her statement.

"I’m even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. It is a setback. It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously," she continued.

"I believe Johnny’s attorneys succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK," Heard noted. "I’m sad I lost this case. But I am sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American – to speak freely and openly.”

The jury also found in favor of Amber Heard in her countersuit against Johnny Depp, awarding her $2 million in compensatory damages.

In a sweeping victory Wednesday, Johnny Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and another $5 million in punitive damages.

Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the punitive damages sum to $350,000 -- the maximum allowed under Virginia law.

Amber Heard listens to verdict.

Johnny Depp won his defamation case against Amber Heard in a sweeping victory.

The seven-panel jury found in Depp's favor on each defamation allegation. Heard wore a stoic expression, as the verdict was read in court.

Amber Heard waits to hear the verdict in Johnny Depp's defamation case against her. (Screenshot)

The seven-member panel entered the courtroom.

Judge Penney Azcarate informed the jury that they must enter the damages portion of the verdict form, indicating the amount each side should be awarded. She then sent them back to the deliberation room.

The omission suggests that the jury found there were defamatory statements on at least one side.

Heard, wearing all black, wore a somber expression. Johnny Depp is on tour in the UK with guitarist Jeff Beck.

Dozens of Depp supporters showed up after news of the verdict went out and gathered in front of the courthouse.

Amber Heard is in the courtroom waiting to hear the jury's decision. Johnny Depp is not. Her sister, Whitney Henriquez Heard, sat behind her in the front row of the gallery.

A source close to Johnny Depp confirmed he will not be present for the verdict.

"Due to previously scheduled work commitments made before the trial, Mr. Depp will not be physically present for today's 3 p.m. verdict and will be watching from the United Kingdom," the source said.

Depp, 58, has been touring with guitarist Jeff Beck in England and has performed three shows since the jury began deliberations Friday.

Heard is en route to the courthouse.

"Your presence shows where your priorities are," said a spokesperson for Heard. "Johnny Depp plays guitar in the UK while Amber Heard waits for a verdict in Virginia. Depp is taking his snickering and lack of seriousness on tour."

The CEO of Herald PR, Juda Engelmayer, who represents Harvey Weinstein, said it was a bad look for Depp.

“He’s already assuming he’s won, and it shows complete arrogance," Engelmayer told Fox News Digital.

“It’s like he thinks he's a rock star and above it all. I would have urged him to get back here, or at the very least, told him to stay out of the public eye."

A photo of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. (Getty)

The verdict won't be announced until 3 p.m. The panel of seven jurors took a short lunch break that ended at 12:45 p.m.

Amber Heard is expected to be present, while Johnny Depp is not. The jurors deliberated for nearly 13 hours over three days.

The seven-member panel will be on lunch break until 12:45 p.m.

A photo combination of Monica Lewinsky and former President Bill Clinton. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)

Monica Lewinsky weighed in on the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial in an op-ed Tuesday, calling it "courtroom porn and a "pure car wreck."

"We have become so attuned to this narrow, cynical cycle of social media encounters that we consider the trial not tragic or pathetic, but as a pure car wreck: accessible, tawdry, and immediately gratifying," she wrote of Fairfax County Circuit Court civil trial in Virginia that has been live-streamed on almost every major media outlet. 

She called the seven-week spectacle "courtroom porn" that the public now consumes through biased social media feeds in the Vanity Fair piece.

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The panel of seven members started its third day of deliberations Wednesday morning at 9 a.m.

They got the case on Friday but only spent two hours weighing the matter before they were sent home for the long weekend.

They returned on Tuesday and slogged away for another seven hours before informing the court they were ready to go home for the night.

Johnny Depp and model Kate Moss in 1995. (Photo by Fotos International/Getty Images)

Supermodel Kate Moss attended Johnny Depp's rock concert Tuesday in London, as he awaits a verdict in his $50 million defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, a source confirmed. 

It was Depp's third performance alongside legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, and he invited Moss as his guest, according to the source. 

Photos posted online show Depp on stage rocking out Tuesday — one day after receiving a standing ovation at the same venue.

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The jury hasn't reached a verdict after more than nine hours of deliberations over two days. They will resume weighing the case Wednesday morning at 9 a.m.

A portrait of Johnny Depp with his signature was recently added to the wall of The Palm restaurant.

Johnny Depp has been camped out at the Ritz-Carlton in Virginia during his marathon defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, recuperating from his daily courtroom grind with chicken Parmigiana dinners and red wine, sources told Fox News Digital.

Jurors received the sensational case on Friday and deliberated for two hours before breaking for Memorial Day weekend. They returned Tuesday to continue weighing the case.

Located roughly 15 minutes away from the Fairfax County Courthouse, the five-star property is in McLean, Virginia, conveniently connected to a high-end shopping mall that boasts Louis Vuitton and Gucci among other luxury retailers.

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The panel of seven jurors returned form lunch at 1 p.m. A short time later, the panel informed the court that it had a question.

The jury asked Judge Penney Azcarate to clarify whether a question on jury instructions referred to Amber Heard's entire op-ed or just the title, "I spoke up against sexual violence and faced our culture's wrath."

Th judge sent back a note indicating the question referred to only the headline.

"The statement is the headline and not the entire op-ed," Azcarate said in court.

The seven-member panel is on a lunch break until 1 p.m.

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and his daughter, Lily-Rose Depp. (Getty)

Lily-Rose Depp celebrated her 23rd birthday amid her father's $100 million defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Depp turned 23 on May 27 and marked the milestone on Instagram Sunday with two snaps of herself in a pink camisole wearing a matching pink "Birthday Princess" sash.

In one shot, the actress, a Chanel brand ambassador, smiled as she sat in front of a bunk bed. A bouquet of pink roses tied with a pink bow is featured in another picture from the same day and has garnered more than 1.2 million likes.

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Camille Vasquez exits the Fairfax County Courthouse, in Virginia, Tuesday an hour after arriving, as jurors deliberate. (Backgrid)

Johnny Depp's legal team -- including Camille Vasquez and Ben Chew -- showed up to the Fairfax County Courthouse Tuesday morning shortly before jurors resumed deliberations in the actor's defamation case.

An hour later, Vasquez, wearing white, her signature color, and the other Depp lawyers, departed the courthouse briefly before returning, where a panel of seven jurors is deliberating.

Depp is likely still in England, where he's on tour with guitarist Jeff Beck, while Heard remains nearby in case a verdict comes in, sources told Fox News Digital.

Fox News cameraman Martin Heina snapped this picture of Johnny Depp fan's makeshift pirate ship outside the Fairfax County Courthouse. (Martin Heina)

A Johnny Depp fan circled the courthouse twice Tuesday hauling a makeshift pirate ship on a trailer bed.

The elaborate prop outfitted with rope, an anchor and an intricate"Pirates of the Caribbean" mural drove by as jurors resumed deliberations Tuesday.

A life-sized figure of a pirate was attached to the bow next to a cannon in homage to Depp's most famous movie role.

The bizarre trial has featured eccentric Depp fans -- including a man dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Johnny Depp played London Royal Albert Hall in England Monday night alongside guitarist Jeff Beck.

His team will not confirm whether he'll be present when the jury reaches a verdict at Fairfax County Courthouse -- but it doesn't seem likely.

His lawyer, Camille Vasquez, asked Judge Penney Azcarate last week whether Depp had to be there, and she said no.

After seven grueling weeks, Depp jetted off to England over the weekend to tour with Beck.

The jury deliberated for just two hours Friday before they were dismissed. They're due back in court Tuesday morning to resume deliberations.

With the trial's headliner likely absent, only a dozen or so fans showed up Tuesday morning to get into the courtroom. Heard will be present for the verdict, a source close to her team confirmed.

More than 300 people waited in line last week for hours to catch a glimpse of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star.

Jurors deliberated for two hours Friday without reaching a verdict.

The seven-member panel, composed of five men and two women, were sent home for the long weekend.

Judge Penney Azcarate instructed them to return Tuesday at 9 a.m. to continue weighing the case.

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in the Fairfax County Courthouse Friday May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Jurors began deliberations Friday afternoon at about 3 p.m. after listening to summations for more than four hours.

Seven jurors will decide whether to award Johnny Depp $50 million over an op-ed Amber Heard wrote identifying herself as a victim of domestic abuse.

Depp's legal team argued that the piece wasn't true and ruined his reputation and career.

The panel will also weigh Heard's $100-million counterclaim against Depp for allegedly conspiring with his lawyer to defame her by calling her abuse allegations a hoax.

The jury, who is composed of five men and two women, has spent six weeks listening to testimony and can now discuss the case for the first time.

Judge Penney Azcarate didn't say how late jurors would deliberate but said she won't serve dinner.

Kate Moss testifies via video link during Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, May 25, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein via Reuters)

Amber Heard's lawyers argued that most of Johnny Depp's witnesses were on his payroll.

But, in Camille Vasquez's rebuttal, she listed the numerous witnesses who were not, including supermodel Kate Moss, who testified for Depp.

"Kate Moss is most definitely not on Mr. Depp’s payroll," said Vasquez, who pointed out that the actress had few supporters in or outside of court.

"You may have noticed no one showed up but her sister," she said of Whitney Henriquez Heard, who was sitting in the gallery.

Hundreds of fans have shown up every day for Depp, while Heard's supporters can be counted on one hand.

“This is a woman who burns bridges, her close friends don’t show up for her,” said Vasquez, referring to testimony from Rocky Pennington and Melanie Inglessis.

They both said they were no longer friends with Heard but testified on her behalf.

Camille Vasquez told jurors in her rebuttal summation that the "the First Amendment doesn't protect lies."

She called Amber Heard's testimony a "performance" and her a story "a constantly moving target."

"You saw her get caught in lie after lie," she said. "Ms. Heard has no right to tell the world that Mr. Depp physically or sexually assaulted her when that isn’t true. That’s not protected speech."

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed in which she identified herself as a survivor of domestic abuse.

"A  person's life cannot and should not be destroyed by a baseless charge and no opportunity to defend yourself," Vasquez said. That’s why Mr. Depp had to bring this change.”

Heard is countersuing Depp for $100 million, alleging that he conspired with his lawyer, Adam Waldman, to defame her by calling her allegations an "abuse hoax."

But Vasquez argued that Heard had not proven that Depp had helped craft or sign off on Waldman's statements to the press.

Further, she said, Heard hasn't shown that she lost a single job opportunity due to the alleged defamatory statements.

Amber Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, told jurors Amber Heard had no motive to lie.

She said that California is a no-fault divorce state, and Heard was entitled to half of what Depp earned during their marriage. Depp allegedly made $65 million and all Heard got was $7 million for the one-year union.

Depp's team has called Heard a "gold digger," and said she publicly promised to donate the sum to charity but, instead, pocketed it.

But Bredehoft said that the words "donate and pledge are interchangeable," and the actress still intends to fulfill the promise.

Elaine Bredehoft delivering summations May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Amber Heard's lawyer Friday blamed the couple's teacup Yorkie for the excrement in their marital bed.

"Boo has this huge problem," Elaine Bredehoft told jurors of the 4-pound dog. "Of course it was Boo. He was always doing this, but Johnny just won’t get there."

Johnny Depp testified that the poop was far too large to have come from the tiny pup. Depp's driver said Heard admitted to him that it was a horrible prank gone wrong.

Bredehoft described the May 21, 2016, fight, when Depp showed up at their penthouse after they hadn't seen each other for a month.

He was on a "tear about feces," and he had already been drinking and was high, she said. ”He just won’t let it go," the lawyer told jurors.

After Heard laughed with her friend on the phone about the accusation, Depp allegedly bashed her in the face with a cellphone.

Amber Heard's lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, told jurors in his closing line that the significance of this defamation trial is greater than both parties.

"This trial is about so much more than Johnny and Amber Heard," he said in summations. "It's about freedom of speech. Stand up for it, protect it, and reject Mr. Depp's claims against Amber."

Rottenborn then handed the reins off to Elaine Bredehoft to address Heard's $100 million countersuit.

Amber Heard fought back tears Friday, as her lawyer described Johnny Depp's alleged sexual assault of her with a liquor bottle.

He showed jurors pictures of the bar area in Australia after the blowout 2015 fight that left Depp missing a piece of his finger. Rottenborn read a line from Heard's testimony, "I didn’t know if the bottle he had inside me was broken.”

Heard testified that Depp repeatedly penetrated her with the liquor bottle while in a drug-fueled rage.

Rottenborn paused, as Heard's face became emotional and she look like she was about to cry.

The attorney insisted that Heard had nothing to do with Depp's injured finger, but even if she "chopped it off with an ax, it would have nothing to do with if Mr. Depp abused her."

Rottenborn also scolded Depp and his attorneys for laughing and smiling, as he went through each incident of alleged sexual assault and domestic violence.

Amber Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn holds up the Washington Post op-ed during summations.(Steve Helber/Pool via Reuters)

About 15 minutes into Amber Heard's lawyer's summation, an Amber Alert went off in the courtroom.

Ben Rottenborn's presentation was briefly interrupted, as Judge Penney Azcarate instructed those in the courtroom to shut off their phones.

Amber Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn played jurors a video of Johnny Depp violently slamming cabinets during summations.

The footage was filmed by Heard and later appeared on TMZ. Depp's team says she sold it or gave it to the gossip site.

Rottenborn also displayed some of Depp's text messages discussing Heard and described him as using the "most vile, disgusting language you could ever imagine."

In a text to actor Paul Bettany, Depp wrote "Let's drown her. Let's drown her before we burn her" and later said he would "f--- her burnt corpse."

"These words are a window into the heart and mind of America’s favorite pirate," the attorney said. "This is the real Johnny Depp."

Amber Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn kicked off summations by telling jurors the First Amendment protects the actress's op-ed about surviving domestic abuse.

"The statements she wrote were not false, and the First Amendment protects them," Rottenborn said, as Heard, wearing a gray suit, looked on.

A lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union proposed the op-ed and actually wrote the first draft, he said.

He called Johnny Depp's claims that Heard is lying "victim-blaming and most disgusting."

Rottenborn argued that if Depp abused Heard even once in any form, Heard wins.

“We’re not just talking about physical abuse, we’re talking about emotional abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse sexual abuse," Rottenborn told jurors. "If you think they were both abusive to each other, then Amber wins."

Ben Chew delivering summations Friday May 27, 2022, in Fairfax, Virginia. (Steve Helber/pool via Reuters)

After Camille Vasquez wrapped up her portion of summations, she handed off the podium to Ben Chew, who walked jurors through the jury form and the damages portion of the case.

Chew told the panel of nine jurors, two of whom are alternates, that this case is not about Johnny Depp's $50 million lawsuit against Amber Heard, but the actor's legacy.

“This case for Mr. Depp has never been about money nor is it about punishing Ms. Heard," he said. "It is about Mr. Depp's reputation and freeing him from the prison in which he has lived for the last six years...It’s about showing Mr Depp’s children, Lily-Rose and Jack, that the truth is worth fighting for.”

Depp hugged Chew in the courtroom.

Amber Heard with her former best friend Rocky Pennington May 28, 2016. (Trial evidence)

Camille Vasquez showed jurors photos of Amber Heard snapped at events or by paparazzi after alleged attacks by Johnny Depp.

There are no visible injuries on Heard, who has said she used makeup to cover up bruises and a broken nose.

"What we have is a mountain of unproven allegations that are over the top and implausible," Vasquez told jurors. "You either believe all of it or none of it."

She continued, "Either she’s a victim of truly horrific abuse, or she’s a woman who is willing to say absolutely anything.”

Vasquez said that Heard had doctored photos showing redness under her eye after the actress alleged that Depp bashed her in the face with a cellphone May 21, 2016.

Heard went to a Los Angeles courthouse six days later to obtain a restraining order against Depp. When she emerged from the building, her photo was taken with bruises under her right eye.

Vasquez said Heard tipped off TMZ to her presence, who knew she would have a bruise and would pause for the picture. The next day, her photo was taken with her former best friend, Rocky Pennington, and the two are laughing. Depp has no visible bruise on her face.

“Its not her story. It’s not Ms. Heard’s story," Vasquez said of the actress's claim she is a domestic violence victim. "It was an act of profound cruelty, not just to Mr. Depp, but to true survivors of domestic abuse for Ms. Heard to hold herself as a public figure for domestic violence. It was false, it was defamatory, and it caused irreparable harm.”

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in the Fairfax County Courthouse Friday May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Camille Vasquez said that Amber Heard's account of the 2015 blowout brawl in Australia that left Johnny Depp missing a piece of his finger was fabricated.

“Ms. Heard spun a story of horror, a three-day ordeal with a violent Mr. Depp assaulting her," Vasquez said in summations, describing Heard's testimony of being bent over and raped with a Maker's Mark bottle.

"She claimed she had bruises on her face, cuts all over her arms and feet and was bleeding from her vagina from the sexual assault," Vasquez said, as Heard closed her eyes tightly.

Vasquez pointed out that Heard took pictures of the messages Depp had scrawled on mirrors with his injured finger but none of her alleged injuries.

Several witnesses also testified that they saw no injuries on Heard after the fight, and she never sought medical treatment.

The "Aquaman" actress also never told anyone she had been sexually assaulted until Depp sued her in 2019, Vasquez noted.

"Either she’s a victim of truly horrific abuse, or she’s a woman who is willing to say absolutely anything," Vasquez said.

Amber Heard testifying May 26, 2022, in Johnny Depp's defamation trial against her. (Michael Reynolds/pool via AP)

“We told you this would be a performance a role of a lifetime , a survivor of brutal domestic abuse," Camille Vasquez said of Amber Heard in summations.

Vasquez reminded jurors that Heard's acting coach Kristy Sexton said she had difficult crying on cue.

"Ms. Heard has difficulty crying when she’s acting," Vasquez said. You saw it, Ms. Heard sobbing without tears while spinning elaborate exaggerated, fantastical accounts of abuse.”

Vasquez continued, “It was a performance.”

Camille Vasquez reminded jurors Thursday that Amber Heard promised to pay her full $7 million divorce settlement to two charities.

Vasquez said Heard donated less than $1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union and just $250,000 to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Jurors were then played a video of Heard telling a Dutch talk show host that she had donated the sum in full.

Camille Vasquez played several recordings Thursday during summations of Amber Heard admitting to hitting Johnny Depp.

"I'm sorry that I didn't hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was not punching you," Heard is heard saying before calling him a "baby."

In another clip, she admitted she started the physical fight.

Camille Vasquez delivers closings Friday May 27, 2022. (Steve Helber/Pool via Reuters)

Camille Vasquez accused Amber Heard of being the abuser in her toxic relationship with Johnny Depp.

"There is an abuser in this courtroom and it is not Mr. Depp. There is a victim of domestic violence in this courtroom but it is not Ms. Heard," Vasquez said. "Ms. Heard is in fact the abuser and Mr. Depp the abused."

Vasquez called Heard a "deeply troubled person, violent, afraid of abandonment, desperate for attention and approval."

Camille Vasquez told jurors Friday morning that Amber Heard "ruined" Johnny Depp's life with false domestic violence allegations.

"On May 27, 2016, Ms. Heard walked into a courthouse in Los Angeles, California, to get a no notice ex parte restraining order against Mr. Depp, and in doing so, ruined his life by falsely telling the world she was a survivor of domestic abuse at the hand of Mr. Depp," Vasquez said.

She continued, "Today on May 27, 2022, exactly six years later, we ask you to give Mr. Depp his life back." 

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in court May 26, 2022. ( (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Once Judge Penney Azcarate wraps up jury instructions, both sides will deliver closing arguments.

Each summation is expected to take about two hours.

Johnny Depp fans began lining up outside the Fairfax courthouse Thursday night to get into the courtroom Friday and get a glimpse of the actor during closing arguments.

Only the first 100 got a coveted wristband -- their ticket into the courtroom out of more than 300 people.

The first in line, Ena Cress, of Fairfax, Virginia, arrived at 11:30 p.m., and it was her fourth time in the courtroom since the trial began.

"I'm here as a supporter of men having a voice," she said. "I think he just happened to be the first brave one to come out."

Another Depp fan, Evan Torres, who was dressed as Jack Sparrow, waited in the back of the courthouse for the actor's arrival.

"I'm here to support my hero, Mr Johnny Depp," he said in an English accent. When asked why he admired Depp, he said, "He's a weirdo just like me."

A judge granted a motion from Amber Heard’s legal team to seal the identities of the seven jurors in Johnny Depp’s defamation case against her for one year, a court filing shows. 

Judge Penney Azcarate issued the order May 18 without summarizing Heard’s motion, which is sealed.

Depp’s legal team hinted at the reasons for the decision in a hand-scrawled line at the bottom of the document.

“Agreed as to the proposed relief but objecting to and not agreeing to characterizations as to Mr. Depp’s interactions with his fans, etc,” wrote Ben Chew and Camille Vasquez.

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in court May 26, 2022, in Fairfax, Virginia. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters)

Johnny Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez grilled Amber Heard on cross-examination, confronting her with witnesses who've contradicted her testimony.

"Your lies have been exposed to the world multiple times," Vasquez said.

"I haven't lied about anything," Heard replied, defiantly, as she stared at the jury. 

She asked Heard about an incident at the Hicksville Trailer Palace in 2013, where the actress alleges Depp threatened to break the wrist of a woman who had been too friendly with her. Later that night, Heard said that Depp sexually assaulted her, performing a "cavity search" on her and trashed their trailer.

Vasquez pointed out that Heard's own witness, Rocky Pennington, who was present, did not observe Depp threaten the woman.

Further, the former owner of the luxury trailer park in Joshua Tree, California, testified that the trailer was not wrecked. A single light sconce was broken, he said.

Heard claimed she didn't recognize the former owner as having been at the property that night and insinuated that he wasn't being truthful.

"You're calling him a liar?" asked Vasquez.

"I'm just saying he wasn't there," she responded. Heard also insisted she had never tipped off TMZ to a story -- despite testimony from a former field producer Morgan Tremaine, who suggested she had.

"Another liar on the stand?" asked Vasquez.

"I just know that's incorrect," she shot back during the testy exchange with Depp's attorney.

Jury to hear closing arguments Friday at 9 a.m. After summations, jurors will begin deliberations.

Judge Penney Azcarate told the panel they can deliberate as late as they want Friday "within reason."

Johnny Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez grilled Amber Heard on cross-examination, confronting her with witnesses who've contradicted her testimony.

Amber Heard testifying May 26, in Fairfax, Virginia. (screenshot)

Amber Heard retook the witness stand Thursday and told jurors in emotional testimony that she has a right to share her "truth" without consent harassment and bullying.

"I have a right as an American to talk about what happened to me, to own my story and my truth, I have the right," said Heard, her face twisted with emotion.

The actress said not only does she have to live with the trauma she suffered ever day but must endure further abuse. "My hands shake,  I wake up screaming," she said. "I have to live with the trauma and damage done to me."

On top of suffering alleged sexual and physical abuse by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, she said his fans have tormented her.

"I receive hundreds of death threats regularly, if not daily," she said. Thousands since this trial has started. People mocking -- mocking, mocking my testimony about being assaulted."

She told jurors her intimate partners and friends have rules on how they can touch and interact with her due to her PTSD.

In a dig at Depp, she said she's not making light of the proceeding. "I’m not sitting in the courtroom, snickering, laughing, smiling, making snide jokes," she said, her lower lip trembling. "This is horrible this is painful and this is humiliating for any human being to go through."

Amber Heard retakes the stand Thursday in her rebuttal case. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters)

Amber Heard retook the stand Thursday in her rebuttal case and said that people threaten to kill her and her baby every day.

"I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day," she said, her lower lip trembling. "Even just walking into this courtroom, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life, things that I lived through used to humiliate me."

She continued, staring at the jurors as she spoke. "People want to kill me and they tell me so every day. People want to kill my baby in the microwave and they tell me that," the "Aquaman" actress said.

Heard has a 1-year-old daughter, Oonagh Paige Heard, she had via surrogate. She has said that she is both the mother and father to her child.

A photo combination of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia, May 26, 2022. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters)

Amber Heard's legal team recalled Dr. Dawn Hughes, a psychologist with a speciality in intimate partner violence, to rebut the testimony of Johnny Depp's psych expert.

Hughes doubled down on her original findings, insisting Heard suffers from PTSD triggered by alleged abuse at the hands of her ex-husband.

She also said the "Aquaman" actress did not fake her symptoms.

Dr. Shannon Curry, Depp's expert psychologist, determined that Heard did not suffer from PTSD and had intentionally exaggerated her symptoms.

Julian Ackert testified Thursday May 26, 2022, as a rebuttal witness for Amber Heard. (Screenshot)

Julian Ackert, a computer science expert, was called by Amber Heard's team as their first rebuttal witness.

He's trying to poke holes in Johnny Depp's computer expert, who said Heard's photos of her injuries had been altered.

Johnny Depp in Fairfax County Circuit Court Thursday, in Virginia. (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

After calling a single witness Thursday, Johnny Depp rested his rebuttal case.

Dr. Robert Gilbert testifying Thursday May 26, 2022, as a rebuttal witness for Johnny Depp. (Screenshot)

Dr. Richard Gilbert, an orthopedic surgeon with a speciality in hands, was the first witness Thursday.

He was called as a rebuttal witness in Johnny Depp's case, and said the actor's account of how he lost the tip of his finger makes sense.

"A vodka bottle, a hard object, could have crushed the tip of the finger," Gilbert testified. "As the vodka bottle broke, the glass would have lacerated the finger, resulting in soft tissue loss, which was also seen in this injury."

Amber Heard's expert witness, Dr. Richard Moore, also an orthopedic surgeon with a speciality in hands, said Depp's account was inconsistent with his injury.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star testified that Heard hurled a vodka bottle at him that shattered on his hand, slicing off the tip during a 2015 brawl in Australia.

Heard implied on the stand that Depp smashed a phone "into smithereens" bashing off the tip, which Gilbert called unlikely. An injury sustained from repeated punches would usually damage the knuckles because the hand is balled up in a fist, he said.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial with forensic expert Bryan Neumeister

Johnny Depp's legal team called a forensic and metadata expert to the stand on Wednesday afternoon to analyze Amber Heard images in the on-going defamation trial.

Bryan Neumeister testified "colors have been modified" throughout a series of photographs that were "quite a bit different" and allegedly showed bruising and bodily harm on Heard.

When asked to verify validity of the images, Neumeister said: "First of all, you can’t. Nobody can identify the authenticity of the photos and the reason is the manner of collection."

He added: "I'd have to see each photo. There’s no way to authentic any photos based on what I received." 

He described the images he received as "screengrabs," and explained he had been shown edited photographs, not original images.

"These photos will not digitally fingerprint with each other in other words forensically they don't match," Neumeister said.

When Heard’s team specifically asked if he found any modifications to the metadata, Neumeister couldn't answer.

“There is no way to know because of the way the files were presented," he said. "It is not a question that can be answered.”

Depp's team attempted to object: "Asked and answered."

Heard's legal defense rephrased: “You found no evidence.”

Neumeister responded: "That’s incorrect." 

“They’re not photographs, they’re screengrabs,” Neumiester said.

Court adjourned at about 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon and the trial is still on schedule to hear closing arguments on Friday morning.

On cross-examination, Amber Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, asked former TMZ staffer Morgan Tremaine if he reached out to help on the case for publicity.

"So this gets you your 15 minutes of fame?" Bredehoft asked.

"I stand to gain nothing from this. I’m actually putting myself in the target of TMZ, a very litigious organization," Tremaine replied. "I could say the same thing about you taking Amber Heard as a client.” 

Surprise witness, former TMZ field producer Morgan Tremaine, took the stand Wednesday -- six days after contacting Johnny Depp's attorney.

He said he first worked on an assignment involving Amber Heard May 27, 2016, when he dispatched a photographer to snap her leaving a Los Angeles courthouse after obtaining a restraining order against Johnny Depp.

“Their objective was to capture her leaving the courthouse, and then, she was going to, sort of, stop and turn toward the camera and display the bruising on the right side of her face,” said Tremaine, who did not know who called in the tip.

About three months later, TMZ got an email with a link to a video Heard filmed of Depp violently slamming kitchen cabinets.

The footage was previously played for jurors, but the clip sent to TMZ was shorter, and did not include the beginning that shows Heard setting up the camera or the end that shows her smirking, Tremaine told jurors.

TMZ owns the copyright to the video. He said that TMZ obtains copyright if video is sent to the tip line from the original copyright owner, usually the person who shot the footage.

If footages doesn't come from the original copyright holder, it takes quite a bit of time to verify before TMZ can publish a story, he said.

"How much time passed from when you received the kitchen cabinet video before it was posted?" asked Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez.

"About 15 minutes," he replied.

Tremaine said he worked on other Heard' stories -- including dispatching photographers to snap her arriving at LAX or visiting her lawyer's office.

FOX Corporation acquired TMZ in 2021 and also owns Fox Digital.

A photo combination of Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Elon Musk. (Getty)

During cross-examination, Johnny Depp was confronted with a text he sent to his then-talent agent Christian Carinno threatening to slice off Elon Musk's manhood.

"Let's see if mollusk has a pair," Depp wrote in the vulgar Aug. 15, 2016, message, using his nickname for Musk. "Come see me face to face...I'll show him things he's never seen before...Like, the other side of his d--- when I slice it off."

Heard dated Musk after she split from Depp in May 2016. Depp has accused Heard of cheating on him with the Tesla CEO during their marriage.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor used shocking language to describe Heard in the message shown to jurors -- including calling her a "gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless, dangling overused flappy fish market."

He added, "I can only hope karma kicks in and takes the gift of breath from her."

Depp admitted he was the author and that the message was "horrific."

Johnny Depp testifying as a rebuttal witness in his defamation case against Amber Heard. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via Reuters)

Amber Heard's lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, asked Johnny Depp on cross-examination whether he had ever said "if you want to be with a woman sexually then she is rightfully yours?"

Depp responded, "That’s ludicrous."

Rottenborn pressed Depp. "You also said with respect to women you want to be with, 'I need, I want, I take' haven’t you?" the lawyer asked.

Equally ludicrous," Depp replied. “There is not enough hubris in me to say anything like that.”

Rottenborn then confronted Depp with a text exchange he allegedly had with his assistant Feb. 22, 2017. The messages were turned over by Depp's legal team.

"Molly's p---y is RIGHTFULLY MINE!!!! Should I not just bust in and remove its hinges tonight???" the text says. "I want to change her understanding of what it is like to be thrashed about like a pleading Mackrel....I NEED. I WANT. I TAKE."

Depp denied he sent the messages and said someone else may have borrowed his phone and texted his assistant.

A judge Tuesday denied an emergency motion filed by TMZ to block a former employee from testifying about the source of a 2016 video that Amber Heard filmed of Johnny Depp violently slamming cabinets.

TMZ doesn't want ex-staffer Morgan Tremaine taking the stand, and Judge Penney Azcarate heard arguments on the issue Wednesday before the lunch break. 

Heard’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, offered a glimpse of Tremaine’s potential testimony.

“He’s going to claim that someone leaked to TMZ that Ms. Heard was going to obtain the TRO on that Friday and also leaked the kitchen video,” she said, arguing that the testimony is hearsay and shouldn’t come in. “I’m almost certain he’s not going to claim it’s Ms. Heard.”

Charles Tobin, who reps TMZ, argued that there’s “journalistic privilege” which protects reporters from disclosing their sources.

But the judge pointed out that the “journalist privilege” goes to the reporter, not the company. The former employee is voluntarily testifying and has chosen not to assert “journalistic privilege.”

Under cross-examination, Heard denied leaking the video or alerting the press to her presence at a Los Angeles courthouse when she obtained a restraining order against Depp May 27, 2016. 

The actress, accompanied by her publicist, said that when she emerged from the courthouse she was surprised to find a crush of reporters and photographers, who snapped pictures of her bruised face. 

If someone on Heard’s team leaked the video, the testimony could be very damaging to her case. Depp has argued that her abuse claims were an elaborate hoax. 

FOX Corporation acquired TMZ in 2021 and also owns Fox Digital. 

On cross-examination Wednesday, Johnny Depp was confronted with his testimony from the UK libel trial against The Sun newspaper for branding him a wife-beater.

He was asked whether a "phone that was a wall mounted phone that was picked up by you held in your right hand, you were repeatedly smashing it against the wall with your right hand?"

"That is possible," Depp replied. "I do not believe I spent very much time on the phone. I remember ripping it off the wall.”

Amber Heard testified that Depp bashed off the tip of his finger while punching a phone during a brawl in Australia in 2015.

Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, suggested that the actress was lying about the wall-mounted phone. It didn't appear in any of the photos of the rented house and the property manager testified that he did not see one.

A source close to Amber Heard released a statement Wednesday after Kate Moss testified on behalf of Johnny Depp.

"So Johnny Depp didn't abuse Kate Moss. That makes him 1 for 2 in the abuse column," the source said. "But, to date, he’s 0 for 1 in the courtroom on the central issue in this case back when he lost the same exact case in England. And when the jury deliberates over the singular issue in this case -- whether Amber Heard can exercise her right of Freedom of Speech --- he'll be 0 for 2, no matter how much his lawyers try to distract and divert the jury’s attention."

Depp sued The Sun newspaper for branding him a wife-beater in England and lost the case.

Johnny Depp said Wednesday on the witness stand that it had been difficult to listen to ex-wife Amber Heard's testimony.

“No human being is perfect," he said in response to questioning by his lawyer. "None of us. But I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse -- all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things."

He called his ex-wife's accusations "insane," "humiliating" and "unimaginably brutal"and told jurors it left him no choice but to try to clear his name.

"I don’t think anyone enjoys having to split themselves open and tell the truth but, um, there are times when one simply has to because it’s gotten out of control," he said.

A photo combination of Amber Heard, Kate Moss via video link and Johnny Depp in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia, Monday May 25, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/pool via Reuters)

Supermodel Kate Moss testified Wednesday that her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp never pushed her down a flight of stairs and suggested he was never violent with her, refuting a claim that Amber Heard made on the stand. 

Moss, 48, wearing a black blazer over a blouse, addressed jurors in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia, via a live video link from Gloucester, England.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star and Moss dated from 1994 to 1998.Depp's lawyer Ben Chew asked Moss whether anything happened when the pair took a vacation to the Golden Eye resort in Jamaica, and she explained she had an accident.

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A photo combination of Johnny Depp, Kate Moss and Amber Heard. (Evelyn Hochstein/pool via AP)

Johnny Depp testified that he told Amber Heard about ex-girlfriend Kate Moss' accident on a staircase while on vacation in Jamaica.

"I recall speaking with Ms. Heard about that very incident," he said. "It was raining very heavily that day, Kate slipped and I recalled the story to her. Ms. Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident all in her mind. There was never a moment where I pushed Kate down any set of stairs."

Moss was the first witness Wednesday and confirmed Depp's account of her accident at the Golden Eye resort.

Heard testified that she once punched Depp because she thought he was about to push her sister, Whitney Heard, down a flight of stairs.

She said she had once heard a rumor that Depp had shoved his supermodel ex down a staircase.

Johnny Depp's lawyer asked him what he told his addiction doctor, David Kipper, after he lost the tip of his finger during a 2015 brawl with Amber Heard in Australia.

“There would be no point in lying to the man," he said of Kipper, who initially treated the injury. "He’d been through it with me and Ms. Heard before. I told him that she had thrown a bottle of vodka and smashed and cut my finger off -- the tip of my finger, the tip of my finger, a good chunk, I miss it.” Depp then chuckled ruefully.

Heard testified that Depp lost the tip of his finger by bashing his hand into a wall-mounted phone in between allegedly beating and sexually assaulting her.

Screenshot of Johnny Depp testifying for the second time Wednesday May 25, 2022, at his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp testified Wednesday that he secured Amber Heard's role as Mera in "Aquaman" -- her most successful movie yet.

“The film was going to be shooting in Australia and for Ms. Heard that was a potential problem," said Depp, possibly referring to Heard illegally bringing their dogs into the country. She's under investigation for perjury over the incident, according to reports.

Depp said Heard asked for his help. He called three "upper echelon" Warner Bros. executives -- but wasn't allowed to share the conversation they had.

“I can only say that ultimately she did get the job in the film, so hopefully I suppose I had curbed their worries to some degree,” Depp said, as Heard smirked in court.

Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez asked Heard during cross-examination whether Depp got her the role. Heard, visibly annoyed, responded that she auditioned and had gotten herself the part.

Johnny Depp climbed back into the witness box Wednesday as a rebuttal witness in his defamation case against Amber Heard.

He already spent four days telling jurors about his childhood and his toxic marriage to Heard. The two tied the knot in February 2015 and called it quits a little over a year later.

The divorce was finalized in 2017.

Psychologist Shannon Curry, who diagnosed Amber Heard with borderline and histrionic personality disorders, was recalled Wednesday.

Johnny Depp's team called Curry to try to refute Heard's expert witness, psychiatrist Dawn Hughes, who testified that the actress suffers from PTSD triggered by domestic abuse.

Hughes also told jurors that Heard does not have borderline or histrionic personality disorders.

Curry said that Heard does not have PTSD and her test scores indicated she had "exaggerated and feigned" her symptoms.

Kate Moss testifies via video link during Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, May 25, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein via Reuters)

Kate Moss testified briefly Wednesday via video from England that ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp never pushed her down the stairs.

Depp's lawyer asked Moss, who was wearing a black blazer over a blouse, about whether anything happened when the pair took a vacation to a resort in Jamaica.

"We were leaving the room and Johnny left the room before I did, and there had been a rainstorm," Moss told jurors. "As I left the room, I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back, and I screamed because I didn’t know what happened to me and I was in pain. He came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention."

The British fashion icon said she dated Depp from 1994 to 1998. Chew asked Moss if Depp ever pushed her in any way.

"He never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs," she replied. The supermodel said she had never testified in a court proceeding before.

Chew asked her why she agreed to do so in this case, but Judge Penney Azcarate didn't allow her to answer, sustaining an objection from Heard's team.

Heard's lawyer declined to cross-examine Moss. The cat walker was allowed to testify after Heard mistakenly blurted out her name during her turn on the stand.

The "Aquaman" actress told jurors about a fight with Depp in March 2015 when she thought he was about to push her sister down the the stairs, and she punched him.

"I don't hesitate. I don't wait. I instantly think of Kate Moss and the stairs, and I swung at him," Heard testified.

The statement prompted Chew to turn to his team in the courtroom and do a fist pump, as Depp grinned.

Kate Moss in a Michael Kors campaign. (David M. Benett/Getty Images for Michael Kors)

British fashion icon Kate Moss began testifying Wednesday morning via video link on behalf of Johnny Depp.

She's expected to refute an alleged rumor that Depp once pushed her down a flight of stairs. Amber Heard referenced the alleged incident during her testimony, which opened the door for Depp's team to call Moss.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) representative Candie Davidson-Goldbronn said in a pre-recorded deposition played for jurors Tuesday that Amber Heard only paid $250,000 of a promised $3.5 million donation.

After Heard split from Johnny Depp, she publicly announced that she would donate her $7 million divorce settlement to two charities: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the CHLA.

While promoting a movie, the actress told the host of the Dutch TV show "RTL Late Night" that she had donated the entire sum in full. “I wanted nothing,” she said in the 2018 interview, after she had received the divorce payout.

Davidson-Goldbronn told jurors that the hospital only got $350,000 from Heard.

The hospital rep said she reached out to the actress and her attorney in a 2018 letter, asking whether she still intended to satisfy her pledge. Heard and her counsel did not reply.

ACLU Chief Operating Officer Terence Doughtery previously testified that Heard had satisfied $1.3 million of her pledge to the charity. Most of that sum came from Heard's then-boyfriend Elon Musk, who made the donations in her name, Doughtery testified.

On cross-examination, Heard claimed that she uses the words "donate" and "pledge" synonymously. "I don't," shot back Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez.

Elon Musk made a $250,000 donation to the charity Art of Elyseum on behalf of Amber Heard, a witness testified Tuesday in a pre-recorded deposition.

Jennifer Howell, a former friend of Heard's sister, said she understood that the check came from the Tesla titan.

Musk made hundreds of thousands in donations to charities in Heard's name, according to previous testimony in the defamation trial.

Johnny Depp in court May 24, 2022, at his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. (. Jim Watson/Pool via Reuters)

Stanford psychiatrist Richard Shaw testified as a rebuttal witness Tuesday on behalf of Johnny Depp.

He was called to discredit Dr. David Spiegel, who told jurors Monday that Depp had narcissistic personality traits.

Shaw said it was unethical for Spiegel to have made the assessment based on the Goldwater Rule, which bars mental health experts from diagnosing public figures without meeting or examining them.

"His conduct unfortunately did violate the Goldwater rule," Shaw said.

A photo combination of Amber Heard and Jason Momoa. (Getty Images)

Amber Heard was almost dropped from "Aquaman 2" due to a lack of chemistry with co-star Jason Momoa, a Warner Bros. executive testified at Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife.

Walter Hamada said in the pre-taped deposition played for jurors Tuesday in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia, that the pair were not a good match.

"They didn’t really have a lot of chemistry together," he explained in the deposition recorded March 15, 2022. "I think editorially they were able to make that relationship work in the first movie, but there was concern that it took a lot of effort to get there."

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Johnny Depp and model Kate Moss in 1995. (Photo by Fotos International/Getty Images)

British supermodel Kate Moss will take the stand Wednesday on behalf of Johnny Depp in his bombshell defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Moss, 48, will testify via video link about an incident when she was "walking down some stairs in Jamaica. She was wearing flip-flops, and she slipped on the last two stairs. Johnny caught her and tended to her," a source told the New York Post.

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Amber Heard in court May 24, 2022, at Johnny Depp's defamation trial against her. (Jim Watson/Pool photo via AP)

The former owner of a luxury trailer park in California said that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard stayed with a group of friends back in May 2013.

Depp was friendly and "really nice," and Heard seemed annoyed that he wasn't paying attention to her, Morgan Night told jurors Tuesday. At one point, Heard pulled Depp aside to talk at the Hickesville Trailer Palace in Joshua Tree.

"She was upset at him and she was yelling at him, and I personally had been in an abusive relationship before --" he began when Judge Penney Azcarate cut him off with a sustained objection.

“He was kind of cowering and seemed almost afraid, and it was really, like, odd to see because he was older than her obviously, but I just went back in the house," Night testified.

The next day, Depp apologized to him profusely.

Night contradicted Heard's direct testimony that Depp got angry with her that night after he got a jealous that another woman had touched her when they were high on MDMA.

She said that Depp grabbed the woman's wrist and threatened to break it.

Heard and Depp went back to their trailer to talk and that's when he allegedly sexually assaulted her. The "Aquaman" actress told jurors, as she sobbed, that Depp, in a drug-fueled rage, performed a "cavity search" on her looking for his cocaine. He also completely trashed the trailer, she said.

The only damage to the restored 1950s camper was a single broken sconce, and Depp paid $62 to replace it.

Morgan Night testified May 24, 2022, at Johnny Depp's defamation trial against Amber Heard. (Screenshot)

Morgan Night, the former owner of the Hickesville Trailer Palace, said that Johnny Depp rented out the entire property in May 2013.

Night said that a lawyer for Depp reached out to him about five weeks ago, after a former co-worker passed along his number.

He said he remembered the night very different from what Amber Heard described in her direct testimony.

A photo combination of Amber Heard , Anna de Armas and Gal Gadot. (Steve Helber pool via AP/Getty)

Hollywood expert Richard Marks, an entertainment lawyer, was recalled Tuesday by Johnny Depp's team to try to poke holes in Amber Heard's defense case.

Heard's Hollywood expert, Kathryn Arnold, said the actress lost between $45 and $50 million in job opportunities after Depp allegedly defamed her. Heard played Mera in "Aquaman" -- one of the top grossing films of all time and her career should have exploded after this, she said.

Arnold compared Heard's potential career trajectory to Jason Momoa in "Aquaman," Chris Pine in "Star Trek," and Gal Gadot in "Wonder Woman."

But Marks said there is no basis Arnold's multimillion figure, and the actors she used as comparisons to Heard were the stars of their super hero films.

“Jason Momoa is not a comparable actor," Marks said. "He played "Aquaman,' not a supporting character like Mera.”

Dr. David Kulber, a hand surgeon who reconstructed Jonny Depp's finger after he lost the top of his finger during a blowout fight in with Amber Heard in 2015 in Australia, testified Tuesday via live video.

He said Depp had a fractured finger with soft tissue loss after the March 8 brawl. Depp testified Heard threw a vodka bottle at him that shattered on his hand. Heard has denied it.

After his first surgery, Depp had a pin in his finger and a soft cast holding two of his fingers in place.

An attorney for Depp asked Kulber asked if the actor could have grabbed someone while wearing the cast. He replied that he could attempt to but probably wouldn't be very successful.

Amber Heard and Jason Momoa in the Warner Bros. film "Aquaman." (AP)

Warner Bros. executive Walter Hamada said in a pre-recorded deposition played for jurors Tuesday that Amber Heard and "Aquaman" co-star Jason Momoa didn't have a lot of chemistry.

Heard was almost dropped from "Aquaman 2" over the issue, Hamada said in the deposition taken March 15, 2022.

“They didn’t really have a lot of chemistry together," he said. "I think editorially they were able to make that relationship work in the first movie, but there was concern that it took a lot effort to get there."

Hamada told jurors that Heard's role as Mera in "Aquaman 2" wasn't pared down -- but the part was always intended to be minor in the script.

"Was her role ever reduced for any reason?" Depp's lawyer Ben Chew asked Hamada.

"No," he replied. Hamada was called by Depp's team as a rebuttal witness to undermine Heard's claim her role in "Aquaman 2" was reduced after Depp allegedly conspired with his lawyer to defame her.

An entertainment expert testified Monday that Heard should have been able to negotiate a significant pay increase for the the second film due to the success of the first.

But Hamada said it was the studio's policy not to renegotiate contracts.

A Johnny Depp fan showed up Tuesday to the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, in Virginia, wearing a poop costume in a diss to Amber Heard.

Depp accused Heard or one of her friends of defecating in their marital bed in 2016 as a prank gone horribly wrong in retaliation for the actor arriving late to her 30th birthday dinner.

She has denied it and blamed the sizable load on Depp's 4-pound teacup Yorkie, Boo.

Ever since, Heard has been dubbed Amber Turd by Depp fans, a hashtag that has gone viral on Twitter.

Amber and Johnny Depp at defamation trial May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Amber Heard's legal team rested their case Tuesday without calling Johnny Depp as previously planned.

The move prompted Depp's lawyer Ben Chew to file a motion to dismiss Heard's $100 million counterclaim that alleges the actor defamed her through his attorney by calling her abuse allegations a hoax.

Chew argued that Heard did not present any evidence that Depp crafted or knew about the statements his lawyer Adam Waldman made to the press.

He thought her team would call Depp to fill this "gaping hole" in evidence -- but they didn't.

Further, Heard can't prove that Waldman acted with "actual malice" in making the statements, Chew told Judge Penney Azcarate in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia.

The judge denied the motion to strike.

Trial set to resume Tuesday morning at 9 a.m.

Johnny Depp's lawyer asked entertainment expert Kathryn Arnold on cross-examination whether the infamous defecation incident could have played a role in the decline of Amber Heard's career.

Arnold said that she expected Heard's ascendency in Hollywood to follow the path of Jason Mamoa, Gal Gadot and Ana de Armis who also appeared in successful super hero movies. After Depp allegedly launched a smear campaign against Heard, she hasn't landed a major movie role or endorsement.

 "Of those comparable actors and actresses, is there a single one that has had any press suggesting that they defecated in the marital bed?" asked Depp's lawyer Wayne Dennison.

"I don't know. I have no idea," she replied. Depp famously accused Heard or one of her friends of pooping in their marital bed in 2016 as a prank.

Dennison asked Arnold whether the ugly allegation may have hurt Heard's reputation in the industry.

“If one believed it, yes," Arnold said. "We don’t have any proof or video of anyone defecating in a bed.”

A photo combination of Amber Heard , Anna de Armas and Gal Gadot. (Steve Helber pool via AP/Getty)

Amber Heard's career should have followed the trajectory of co-star Jason Momoa in "Aquaman," Gal Gadot in "Wonder Woman"and Ana de Armas in "Bladerunner" -- instead it ground to a screeching halt.

“They all were on a steady rise or a meteoric rise," entertainment consultant Kathryn Arnold told jurors. "Her career should have followed that same upward swing."

Arnold called Heard's role as Mera in "Aquaman" her "'A Star is Born' moment."

But after ex-husband Johnny Depp allegedly launched a smear campaign against her, she couldn't land a role or an ad campaign.

Arnold estimated how much money Heard lost by comparing the careers of other actors who had starred in successful super hero films.

The expert said that after Depp and his lawyer allegedly called Heard's abuse allegations a hoax, her role in "Aquaman 2" was minimized, L'Oréal stopped using her in an ad campaign and no new offers came in.

The expert said that Heard should have earned at least $45 million from unrealized movie and TV roles and endorsement deals -- but didn't specify over what period.

Entertainment consultant Kathryn Arnold testifying May 23, 2022, on behalf of Amber Heard. (Screenshot from trial)

Entertainment industry expert Kathryn Arnold told jurors Monday that Amber Heard's op-ed referring to herself as a domestic abuse victim had no impact on his career.

Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, asked Arnold to weigh in on Depp's claim that the piece ruined his reputation and turned him into a pariah in Hollywood.

“Hardly anybody knew the op-ed existed before he filed suit," Arnold said. "Certainly not Disney.”

Depp's team has alleged that the actor was dropped from the sixth "Pirates of the Caribbean" over the op-ed, but Arnold testified this isn't true. There is no Pirates 6 in the making at the moment and studio bosses were already discussing taking the franchise in another direction.

Depp is expensive, chronically late for shoots and has been surrounded by controversy that isn't appropriate for Disney's brand, she said

The "Black Mass" actor's ongoing litigation has hurt him more than the op-ed, she said.

“In actuality he’s causing his own demise by bringing these lawsuits forward and continuing to ignite the fire of negative publicity around both of them,” Arnold said.

The expert added that Heard's career cratered after Depp allegedly made defamatory statements through his lawyer calling her allegations of abuse a hoax.

"She was on the precipice of a meteoric rise with 'Aquaman'" before the alleged libelous comments, Arnold said.

Amber Heard's team will not call Johnny Depp to the stand Monday as previously planned.

Depp is still expected to testify a second time as his own rebuttal witness on Wednesday, a source close to the actor told Fox News Digital.

Dr. David Spiegel said that Amber Heard has "traits" of borderline and histrionic personality disorders but not enough of them "to meet full criteria" for a diagnosis.

Johnny Depp's psych expert, Dr. Shannon Curry, diagnosed Amber Heard with both disorders.

Dr. David Spiegel suggested Monday that Johnny Depp is a narcissist, although the psychiatrist acknowledged that he had not directly examined the actor.

Spiegel described narcissistic personality traits including "poor control, rapid mood shifts, undue sense of admiration, worship power" and attributed many of them to Depp.

"The fact he thought that Amber owed him and only wanted to be together with him because of his fame is an example of that," Spiegel said of narcissistic traits. "I think the jealousy is an example of that."

On cross-examination, Depp's lawyer Wayne Dennison asked Spiegel whether he had diagnosed the actor with narcissistic personality disorder.

“I would certainly, if I didn’t, I’m certainly thinking that, but at least I’m going to say he has traits," answered Spiegel. "So it’s a provisional diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.”

Dennison questioned Spiegel on whether he had violated the Goldwater Rule, barring mental health experts from diagnosing people they have not examined.

Spiegel said he had not because he did not render a definitive diagnosis.

Amber Heard's psych witness on substance abuse and intimate partner violence, David Spiegel, got combative during cross-examination.

Spiegel said that the fact Johnny Deep needed his lines fed to him through an earpiece was consistent with cognitive decline caused by drug abuse.

On cross-examination, Depp's lawyer Wayne Dennison said the actor used the earpiece to listen to music as part of his process. He also questioned Spiegel on whether he knew that Hollywood film legend Marlon Brando also used an earpiece.

"Isn't he dead?" replied Spiegel, prompting Depp to laugh then put his head in his hands. In another exchange, Spiegel admitted he called Depp an "idiot in planning" in his deposition.

Johnny Depp and model Kate Moss in 1995. (Photo by Fotos International/Getty Images)

Supermodel Kate Moss will testify Wednesday on behalf of Johnny Depp about a staircase rumor in his bombshell defamation trial against Amber Heard, a source close to the actor told Fox News Digital.

Moss, 48, is expected to testify via live video link, the source said. The cat walker and Depp, who dated in the 90s, have remained good friends the source said. 

Moss got dragged into the case May 5 when Heard told jurors the only time she had ever "landed a blow" was during a fight with Depp over his alleged infidelity in March 2015, when she thought he was about to push her sister down the stairs.  

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Redirect of psychiatrist David Spiegel, Amber Heard's medical expert, is expected to begin at 1:53 p.m.

Amber and Johnny Depp in court May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

FIRST ON FOX: Johnny Depp will be called to testify again on Wednesday in his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, a source close to the actor told Fox News Digital.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star is expected to be called as a rebuttal witness.

Depp has already spent four days in the witness box sharing his side of the warring pair's toxic marriage, which has been put under a microscope during the trial in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia. 

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Dr. David Spiegel testifying May 23, 2022, as a defense witness for Amber Heard. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Psychiatrist David Spiegel testified Monday as a defense witness for Amber Heard's legal team.

"Mr Depp has behaviors that are consistent with someone who has substance abuse disorder as well as someone who is a perpetrator of intimate partner violence,” said Spiegel, an expert in addiction and intimate partner violence also know as domestic violence.

Spiegel said that Depp's alcohol and cocaine abuse has impacted his attention span and memory so much so that the actor has his lines fed to him in an earpiece.

Amber Heard listening to testimony May 23, 2022, in Fairfax, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Jurors heard for the first time Monday that Johnny Depp told his personal doctor that he lost his finger tip after Amber Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.

Dr. David Kipper was providing emergency treatment for the injury in the driveway of Depp's rented home in Australia back in March 2015 after the blowout fight.

 "In forming your opinion did you consider...[that] Mr. Depp told him that his finger was injured when Ms. Heard threw a vodka bottle at him?" asked Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez during cross-examination of Dr. Richard Moore Jr.

"I don’t recall that from the deposition," replied Moore, an orthopedic surgeon with a speciality in hands.

He testified on direct that Depp's finger injury was not caused by a vodka bottle based on medical records and the actor's own testimony.

Vasquez also showed Moore photos of the bar area, where a house manager later found the detached digit.

There is shattered glass on the floor and blood. Moore said he had not seen these photos before forming his opinion, but they did not change his conclusion that Depp didn't injure his finger from a vodka bottle shattering on his hand.

Dr. Richard Moore Jr. testifying Monday on behalf of Amber Heard against Johnny Depp. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Amber Heard's medical expert, Dr Richard Moore Jr., conceded on cross that he "can't rule out that a vodka bottle caused the injury" to Johnny Depp's finger tip.

He added that he can rule out that the injury was caused "by the mechanism described by Mr. Depp in his deposition," as Depp rolled his eyes and smirked.

Moore did not personally examine Depp but relied on medical records and the actor's testimony.

The doctor has been an expert witness in two other cases for Heard's legal team, and earns $5,000 a day for his testimony.

Johnny Depp looks at an X-ray of his injured finger May 23, 2022, during his defamation trial. ((AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Dr. Richard Moore Jr. told jurors Monday that Johnny Depp has a "crush injury" that didn't occur from Amber Heard hurling a vodka bottle at him.

"Based on your analysis, did Mr. Depp's injury happen as result of a vodka bottle being thrown at him?" Heard's lawyer asked.

"No," Moore replied. Depp testified that his hand was resting palm down over a bar when Heard threw the bottle and it struck his hand, slicing off the tip of his right middle finger.

But gruesome photos of the injury show that the nail on Depp's middle finger was completely intact, and there was no blood under the nail bed.

Moore said that if a bottle struck the outside of Depp's hand, the nail should show signs of trauma.

X-rays of Depp's finger show that the bone had splintered, and Moore said this is not consistent with a bottle shattering on Depp's hand.

If the bottle smashed his hand, as Depp testified, there should be "other lacerations," he said.

Dr. Richard Moore Jr. testifying on behalf of Amber Heard May 23, 2022, in Fairfax, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Amber Heard's team called as their first witness Monday an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Richard Moore Jr., who has a speciality in hand surgery.

He said he's performed thousands of hand surgeries -- including hundreds similar to the one Johnny Depp required after a brawl with Heard in 2015 in Australia.

Depp has alleged that Heard threw a vodka bottle at him, slicing off the tip of his finger. Heard has said that Depp injured his finger by bashing his hand on a wall-mounted phone.

A photo combination of Ellen Barkin, Kate Moss and Winona Ryder. (AP)

Johnny Depp's $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard has sparked a renewed interest in the actor's headline-grabbing love life from a fling with Ellen Barkin to a turbulent romance with Kate Moss.

Here's a look at Depp's dating history stretching back four decades.

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A photo combination of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in court May 17, 2022. (Screenshot)

Johnny Depp is expected back on the stand Monday -- but this time it is Amber Heard's legal team who will call him as a defense witness.

Depp, 58, already spent four days testifying in the defamation trial against Heard, 36, telling jurors that she was abuser in their relationship.

He testified that he lost the tip of his middle finger after Heard threw a vodka bottle at him that shattered on his hand during a 2015 brawl in Australia.

Heard said during the infamous fight down under, Depp allegedly raped her with a liquor bottle.

Amber Heard announced on Instagram in July 2021 that she had secretly welcomed baby girl Oonagh Paige Heard via surrogate to whom she's both "the mom and the dad."

A photo accompanying the news shows Heard lying down on a white bed with Oonagh curled up asleep on her chest.

"Four years ago, I decided I wanted to have a child," she wrote July 1 of last year. "I wanted to do it on my own terms. I now appreciate how radical it is for us as women to think about one of the most fundamental parts of our destinies in this way. I hope we arrive at a point in which it’s normalized to not want a ring in order to have a crib." 

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Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean."(AP)

Johnny Depp engaged with fans in the voice of one of his most iconic characters, Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, as he was being chauffeured from the court where he is facing off against ex-wife Amber Heard in a $50 million defamation case.

Fans greeted Depp and expressed their support as the actor was leaving the court in his SUV. Depp waved to fans and even showed off his ponytail when a fan exclaimed, "We love your hair!"

And one fan can be heard shouting, "You’ll always be our Captain Jack Sparrow," to which Depp responded in the voice of the slightly-drunk sounding British character.

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Testimony wrapped Thursday with pre-recorded deposition from Amber Heard's talent agent Jessica Kovacevik.

Although Heard played Mera in the film"Aquaman," which the agent described as "the most successful movie of all time," her client's career cratered.

She attributed Heard's inability to get roles after the blockbuster movie to an online smear campaign that the actress says was orchestrated by her ex-husband Johnny Depp.

Heard's role in "Aquaman 2" was minimized and an advertisement she shot for TOD's, a clothing brand, was scrapped, the agent said.

"Obviously, 'Aquaman' was the biggest thing she had ever been a part of," Kovacevik said. There was an expectation that the movie offers would flood in but that didn't happen ,and the agent blamed the decline in her professional prospects on the negative online publicity.

The trial resumes Monday.

Dr. Alan Blaustein had 18 sessions with Johnny Depp beginning in October 2014, according to a pre-recorded deposition played in court Thursday.

"Do you recall having a conversation about whether Mr. Depp had bipolar?" asked Amber Heard's lawyer Ben Rottenborn.

"There was some question about bipolar disorder diagnosis, but I can’t remember any specifics about that discussion," he replied.

He said Depp had patience, anxiety and anger issues. He described Depp's relationship with Heard as "chaotic" and "high intensity."

Blaustein read from his notes and said that Depp called his relationship with Heard and Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his children, as characterized by "rage and chaos."

Depp allegedly reported arguments with Paradis about "visitation or access to the children.”

Johnny Depp and Ellen Barkin in 1997. (Getty)

Actress Ellen Barkin, 68, did not mince her words in a pre-recorded deposition played Thursday for jurors, calling ex-Johnny Depp "controlling" and "jealous."

She said their friendship turned sexual some time in the 90s. Depp, 58, broke up with her when she left him to make a two-day visit to Los Angeles, she said.

"He didn't want me to go," Barkin testified in the 11-minute recording. "I never heard from him again after that."

The attorney asked Barkin what he had said to her that showed possessiveness.

“He’s just a jealous man, controlling," she said. "'Where are you going? Who are you going with? What did you do last night?' I had a scratch on my back once that got him very angry, very angry, because he insisted it came from me having sex with a person who wasn’t him.”

Depp and Barkin appeared together in the1998 film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

"Did there come a time Mr. Depp acted in a way that was out of control with you?" Heard's lawyer asked.

"Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle across the hotel room in Las Vegas when we were shooting," she said. "A fight was going on…between Johnny Depp and his friend in the room, the assistant. Honestly I don’t remember.”

He hurled the bottle in her direction and it hit a wall, she said.

A screenshot of Ellen Barkin's pre-recorded deposition played in court Thursday.

A pre-recorded deposition of Ellen Barkin from November 2019 was played for jurors Thursday in court.

Johnny Depp and Barkin became friends in 1990 and the relationship turned sexual in 1994 for about three to six months.

“After I moved to Hollywood, he switched the buttons," she said of the shift. "The friendship went from purely platonic to a romantic one.”

Barkin said Depp was always drinking or smoking a joint. He also took hallucinogens and cocaine.

The actress said Depp referred to his assistant at the time as "the pig."

In a pre-recorded deposition, Amber Heard's attorney, who was negotiating her post-nuptial agreement with Johnny Depp in 2015, testified that she got a disturbing call from the "Black Mass" actor.

“My recollection was that he was very mean, that he called me names, and that he fired me on behalf of Amber,” said Michele Mulrooney of the March 2015 conversation. "He called me a b----."

Depp testified on direct that he and Heard got into a blowout fight in Australia that left him missing a piece of his finger over a post-nuptial agreement he said his then-wife didn't want to sign.

Heard allegedly told him that Mulrooney, who Depp's team hired, had been rude to her, so he called the lawyer up and fired her.

Mulrooney said Depp sounded drunk on the phone, and she ended the call after a few minutes.

"He was slurring his words and his speech pattern was similar to my children’s speech pattern when they were young," Mulrooney testified. "I was just extremely rattled by the call.”

Heard claimed that the Australia argument erupted after Depp accused her of an affair, then allegedly sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Depp has denied the allegation.

A chart created by forensic social media expert Ron Schnell (screenshot of evidence)

Forensic social media expert Ron Schnell testified Thursday that negative hashtags related to Amber Heard spiked after Johnny Depp's lawyer allegedly defamed her in statements to the press.

Attorney Adam Waldman called her allegations an abuse hoax in statements to the press in 2020. Heard is countersuing Depp for $100 million over the alleged defamatory statements made by Waldman.

Schnell analyzed negative tweets about Heard from April 2020 to January 2021 and found approximately 2.28 million -- a majority of them used the hashtags "AmberTurd, "WeJustDon'tLikeYouAmber," "AmberHeardisanAbuser" and JusticeforJohnnyDepp."

He testified that over 25 percent of the tweets contained the term Waldman or WaldMignon. Heard's team has accused Depp and his attorney of launching a smear campaign against her.

On cross-examination, Schnell conceded that he could not definitively tie the negative tweets to Waldman's statements.

The "AmberTurd" hashtag started years earlier after Depp accused her or a friend of leaving feces in their marital bed in 2016 as a prank.

After lunch, Amber Heard's team called social media forensic expert and computer programmer Ron Schell to the stand.

Schnell said his former business partner in a software project was Sylvester Stallone. The child genius also worked on Rand Paul's 2016 presidential election.

Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez arrives at court Thursday May 19, 2022. (Backgrid)

Johnny Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez arrived at court Thursday morning wearing a smile -- as rumors swirled of a possible romance with her famous client.

A source close to Depp told Fox News Digital that the online chatter is "100%, entirely, unequivocally not true."

Depp and Vasquez hugged Tuesday in the courtroom, sparking unfounded speculation the pair had more than an attorney-client relationship.

Amber Heard exiting a Los Angeles courthouse May 21, 2016, after obtaining a restraining order against Johnny Depp.

Detective Marie Sadanaga said in a pre-recorded deposition played in court Thursday that the patrol officers who responded to Amber Heard's penthouse apartment May 21, 2016, should have filled out a domestic violence incident report.

Sadanaga, the Los Angeles Police Department domestic violence coordinator said that even if Heard was uncooperative, the responding officers should have filled out this document.

Police were called to the apartment after Johnny Depp allegedly bashed Heard in the face with a cellphone.

The two responding officers testified in pre-recorded depositions that they observed no injuries on Heard and closed out the call as a verbal dispute.

Another set of officers showed up several hours later after receiving a second 911 call over the same incident, and they also testified that Heard had no injuries.

Heard, with a visible bruise under her right eye, went to a Los Angeles courthouse six days later and obtained a restraining order against Depp, citing the cellphone fight.

After Sadanaga's testimony, court broke for the lunch break.

A screenshot of Adam Waldman's pre-recorded deposition played in court Thursday.

Johnny Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman, who Amber Heard has accused of helping the actor launch a "smear" campaign against her, testified Thursday in a pre-recorded deposition.

Waldman is central to Heard's $100 million countersuit against Depp for calling her allegations an elaborate "hoax."

Waldman made three statement to the media in 2020, accusing Heard of lying about the abuse, and the actress's team says it was at Depp's instruction.

But Waldman, who is still Depp's lawyer, has dodged most of the questions from Heard's lawyer Elaine Bredehoft by invoking attorney-client privilege.

Bredehoft couldn't elicit an answer from Waldman on whether Depp told him to issue the statements or ever requested he retract them.

Heard's team must show that Depp was behind Waldman's statements to prove their defamation case.

Heard testified that the accusation hurt her career and caused her serious distress.

A screenshot of Joel Mandel of the The Management Group testifying in a pre-recorded deposition.

Johnny Depp's former business manager Joel Mandel described his spending habits as "excessive consumption" including blowing more than $300,000 a month on three full-time assistants.

Depp fired then sued Mandel and his company, The Management Group, in 2017, for alleging stealing millions from him. They countersued and the adversaries later settled.

Mandel said in a pre-recorded deposition played for jurors Thursday that Depp had profligate spending habits that "required incredibly high income to be maintained."

Mandel said Depp was in "dire financial straights" by 2015.

The actor paid addiction doctor, David Kipper, and his medical entourage, over $100,000 a month. He paid his three full-time assistants $300,00 a month and his late head of security, Jerry Judge, $10,000 a day, Mandel testified.

It has previously been reported that Depp spent $2 million a month in 2015 to maintain his extravagant lifestyle.

The excessive spending did not include substantial checks to charity, the ex-manager added.

Depp has accused TMG of failing to pay his taxes for 17 years and stealing millions -- both allegations that Mandel denied in the deposition.

Depp earned $650 million in the 13-year period before Depp fired Mandel, the business manager testified.

Whitney Henriquez testifying May 18, 2022, in the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, in Virginia. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via Reuters)

Amber Heard's sister Whitney Heard Henriquez testified Wednesday that Johnny Depp hit her during the pair's now-infamous staircase fight in 2015. 

"I’m standing up there with my back to the stairs. That’s when Johnny runs up the stairs," she told jurors of the March 23 altercation over Depp's alleged infidelity. "He comes up behind me, strikes me in the back. I hear Amber shout don’t hit my f--king sister. She smacks him, lands one."

At that point, Depp grabbed the "Aquaman" actress by the hair and repeatedly punched her in the face, Henriquez said. That's when his security guard allegedly stepped in.

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Tracey Jacobs testifying in a pre-recorded deposition on behalf of Amber Heard against Johnny Depp. (Screenshot)

Johnny Depp's former talent agent, who he axed in October 2016, testified that the actor became "the biggest movie star in the world" under her management.

But by the time Tracey Jacobs was fired three decades later, "his star had dimmed due to it getting harder to get him jobs due to his lateness and other things."

She described Depp as "extraordinarily talented" and attributed his rise to stardom, in part, to her expertise at matching him to appropriate roles.

The statement elicited an annoyed smirk from Depp as he watched the pre-recorded deposition in the courtroom.

During the last decade of their professional relationship, she said Depp became more difficult to work with due to his "unprofessional behavior."

She said he showed up late "consistently on virtually every movie." The agent had to fly to Australia twice in 2015 where he was filming "Pirates of the Caribbean" to discuss the issue with him, she said.

She added that he began abusing alcohol and drugs with greater frequency.

Jacobs said she didn't know why Depp fired her.

"All I know is he terminated essentially every one in his life, so I was along for the ride I guess,” she testified.

A photo combination of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in court May 19, 2022. (Screenshots)

Johnny Depp's ex-friend Bruce Witkin said he observed a bruise on Amber Heard's arm once but didn't know how she got it.

He said that over time Depp's drug addiction became increasingly out of control, and he was once asked to find him while on a bender with Marilyn Manson.

“It’s deep-rooted issues he’s dealing with," he said. "It has nothing to do with Amber.”

The attorney asked Witkin what his relationship is like with Depp now, and he said the actor completely cut him off in 2018 without explanation after he was deposed and testified about his drug use.

“My daughter even got married and he ignored it," Witkin said. "I think there are some people behind the scenes talking shit about me.”

He added, “It’s a strange thing around people like him, everybody wants something."

Johnny Depp's ex-friend Bruce Witkin testifying for the defense May 19, 2022. (Screenshot of trial)

Jurors watched a pre-recorded deposition Thursday of producer Bruce Witkin, who said Johnny Depp's jealousy issues go back to his first wife.

Depp, 58, has known Witkin since 1982 but the pair had a falling out in 2018 when the record producer was deposed in one of the actor's lawsuits.

Witkin said the friendship ended after he testified about Depp's drug use. "I wasn't going to lie," he said.

His sister-in-law Lori Anne Allison was Depp's first wife whom he married in 1984.

"Have you ever seen Mr. Depp experience jealousy when he's been in a relationship?" asked an attorney in the deposition taken Feb. 17, 2022.

"Yes," he said. "It goes all the way back to my sister-in-law. He definitely has a jealous streak in him."

He said when Depp was younger he was jealousy of Nicolas Cage because his sister-in-law knew him.

Witkin said that Depp had gotten jealous with the mother of his two kids, Vanessa Paradis.

"He brought up a few with Vanessa, which were ridiculous," he recalled. "A lot of it was in his head and not in reality."

Depp had also expressed concern to Witkin a few times about Heard filming movies with other men.

Witkin was called as a defense witness for Heard.

Actor Johnny Depp in court May 19 for his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. (Shawn Thew/Pool via Reuters)

Court began 30 minutes later Thursday due to a late juror.

Amber Heard's acting coach Kristy Sexton said the actress told her for the first time in 2019 that Johnny Depp had allegedly sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle in Australia.

Heard, 36, had already been sued by Depp, 58, and asked Sexton if she would testify on her behalf in the case.

After Sexton agreed, Heard divulged details of the alleged sex attack that occurred during a vicious brawl in Australia in March 2015 that left Depp missing a piece of his middle finger.

"This was the first time Ms. Heard had told you that Mr. Depp had allegedly penetrated her with a bottle in Australia?" an attorney asked her in the pre-recorded deposition taken in December 2019.

“Yeah, she told me about the assault with the bottles, being hit with the bottle, the broken glass and everything," Sexton said. "Then, this time she started crying and sobbing and telling me about the [sexual] assault.”

Heard testified that Depp physically and sexually assaulted her in a drug-fueled rage over three days in Australia.

Depp took the stand and told jurors it was Heard who had abused him on that trip, hurling a vodka bottle at his hand that sliced off the tip of his middle finger.

Court broke for the day after Sexton's testimony.

Acting coach Kristy Sexton said in a pre-recorded deposition that she worked with Amber Heard from 2010 through 2017.

The coach had more than 300 sessions with Heard. As time went on, Johnny Depp began voicing his opinions about her movie roles, she said.

"'Why would you want to do that kind of role,'" Sexton recalled Depp saying. "'My woman isn’t going to play that type of role.' I heard that a few times from him.”

Sometimes Depp called roles he didn't want Heard to play "a whore part or trash part," she said in the deposition recorded in December 2019.

"Early on they were incredibly lovey," she recalled. "I would see less and less of them together and I would hear a lot of muffled arguments through the wall."

Sexton said Heard arrived at more than 80 percent of their sessions weeping further into the couple's relationship and had to build in buffer time to account for it.

“She’d be sobbing at the beginning of sessions and we couldn’t work,” she said. “Ironically, she has a little difficulty crying acting wise, which a lot of us do, so yeah, we’d have to work when we were doing it acting wise.”

Both Depp and Heard changed for the worse during their relationship, she said. Sexton also testified that she saw bruises on Heard's arms and face and cuts on her forearms.

Amber Heard on the James Corden show Dec. 16, 2015. (Screenshot of trial evidence)

Amber Heard's former makeup artist and friend said she chose to end their relationship.

"I told Amber I wished her well, I just had no interest in continuing a relationship either work wise or friendship wise,” Melanie Inglessis said in a deposition recorded in February 2021 and played for jurors Wednesday.

The awkward conversation occurred about a month earlier, she said. "It was always, it was always some conflict, some fight," she said of Heard and Depp's relationship. Inglessis supported her during her public split from Depp.

"There always was a problem," she testified. "It was a very consuming friendship…that's why I decided not to continue it.”

Amber Heard's former friend and makeup artist Melanie Inglessis testifying in a pre-recorded deposition played May 18, 2022 (Screenshot)

Makeup artist Melanie Inglessis said she observed injuries on Amber Heard's face Dec. 16, 2015, hours before she went on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."

The night before, Heard, 36, has alleged that Johnny Depp, 58, head-butted her, yanked a chunk of her hair out and choked her unconscious.

Inglessis said that Heard had blue discoloration under her eyes, a swollen nose and a split lip.

"We covered the discoloration or bruises with slightly heavier concealer with a little peach," she testified in the deposition recorded in February 2021. The peach does cancel blue so did that under the eyes."

She added that Heard's signature look is red lipstick but that night they had no other option "to cover up the injury on her lip."

At one point, Ignlessis, who was also at one point good friends with Heard, removed her glasses and broke down in tears.

FAIRFAX, Va. – Over 100 people, including many Johnny Depp fans and some from overseas, camped outside the Fairfax County Circuit Court overnight into Wednesday hoping to see the celebrity's defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. 

"We've been here since 8:30 p.m. last night," Gabrielle, a Depp fan who drove in from North Carolina, told Fox News on Wednesday. Other groups, some holding sleeping bags, arrived around similar times. 

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Photos taken by Whitney Henriquez of Johnny Depp's alleged rampage on her sister's closet. (Screenshot of trial evidence.)

Whitney Henriquez was living rent-free in one of Johnny Depp's penthouse apartments in Los Angeles in March 2015 when Amber Heard burst in.

“I woke up to Amber in my bedroom saying, 'Can you believe he’s cheating on me?'” Henriquez testified.

She told Heard to stay in her apartment while she went to talk to Depp in the kitchen of his penthouse. He admitted to the affair and allegedly said "Amber made me do it."

A few moments later, Heard showed up and was on an upper level mezzanine and the two began shouting at each other.

Henriquez went upstairs to comfort her along with his nurse Debbie Lloyd. Henriquez said Depp hurled a can of Red Bull at Lloyd, which struck her in the back.

“I’m standing up there with my back to the stairs. That’s when Johnny runs up the stairs," she told jurors. "He comes up behind me, strikes me in the back. I hear Amber shout don’t hit my f--king sister. She smacks him, lands one."

At that point, Depp grabbed Heard by the hair and was repeatedly punching her in the face, Henriquez said. That's when his security guard allegedly stepped in.

Several witnesses -- including Depp and Heard -- have given differing accounts of the staircase incident. Depp and his security guard testified that Heard instigated the physical altercation by clocking Depp in the face.

Heard said she hit Depp because she thought he was about to push her sister down the stairs like he did to ex-girlfriend Kate Moss. There is no evidence that Depp ever shoved the supermodel down a staircase.

After the bodyguard separated them, Depp allegedly rampaged through a room Heard used as a closet, tearing down shoe and clothing racks.

Jurors were shown photos that Henriquez took of the destruction. Henriquez said that even after she believed Depp was abusing her sister, she tried to help them reconcile.

"That's what she wanted," she said of Heard, calling her sister's relationship to Depp, "nuanced" and "complicated."

Shortly after the staircase incident, Henriquez moved out of the penthouse. Depp had accused her of selling stories about him to the press.

Whitney Henriquez testified Wednesday that Johnny Depp called her sister a slew of awful names.

"‘He called her a f--king used up trash bag, slimy whore, sagging whore, f--king c--- was thrown out a bunch just horrible things like that, ” she said.

Over time, Henriquez noticed cuts, bruises and redness on Heard. In March 2013, she said Depp flew into a jealous rage over a photo that was taken of Heard with another woman in France.

He thought she was cheating on him. Later that day in a car on the way to a photo shoot, she said Depp dangled their teacup yorkie, Pistol, out the window.

"He brought the dog back into the car and he was just laughing," Henriquez said. "[Depp] then made some joke about putting [Pistol] in the microwave," she said.

Henriquez said she and Depp had frequently snorted cocaine together.

Whitney Henriquez took the stand Wednesday and described how her sister Amber Heard became increasingly more isolated and unhealthy during her relationship with Johnny Depp.

"In hindsight, it was like watching a slow motion gun shot,” she said of her sister. "She was so physically unwell [at the end] that she maybe weighed 100 pounds soaking wet."

Depp started by allegedly controlling her clothing then her friends and finally even her medical care, Henriquez said.

Josh Drew, Raquel Pennington's ex-husband, testifying on behalf of Amber Heard May 18, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/pool via Reuteres)

Josh Drew, Raquel Pennington's ex-husband, testified in a pre-taped deposition that he saw Amber Heard after the May 21, 2016, fight when Johnny Depp allegedly bashed her in the face with a cellphone.

He and Pennington, Heards ex-best friend, were living rent-free in one of Depp's penthouse apartments at the time.

In the deposition taken in November 2019, Drew was shown photos of Heard's face after the altercation.

“I do distinctly remember there being a red mark and a small bruise on her cheekbone and red marks just above her eyebrow," he recalled.

He said Heard was "catatonic like a 1,000-year stare" and looked "like a ghost."

Drew said he hadn't spoken to Heard since his divorce two years prior until she reached out a few months before his deposition. She called to "make amends" and told him she and Pennington "hadn't spoken for some time."

After the cellphone fight, he said Depp stormed into the apartment.

“Open this f--king door. Get me in here," Depp allegedly yelled, Drew testified. After the door flung open, Depp marched toward Drew.

"He caught eyes with me right away, beelined toward me, screaming, cursing, spitting in my face," Drew said of the actor allegedly standing a foot from his face before kicking him out.

During Drew's testimony, he recounted other times he had observed injuries on Heard.

Heard's lawyer asked whether Drew, his ex-wife or anyone else had manipulated the photos of Heard's injuries as Depp's team has alleged.

He denied the claim. Drew's testimony also backed up Heard's statements that one of the couple's teacup yorkies, Boo, had bowel problems.

In fact, he said both dogs regularly relieved themselves all over the apartment.

"There was pee and poop on everything: couches, sofas, chairs the bed, you name it," Drew said.

Depp has accused Heard or one of her friends of pooping in their marital bad as a sick prank in April 2016.

Rumors have been swirling online that actor Johnny Depp is dating one of his attorneys, Camille Vasquez, who grilled Amber Heard on cross-examination.

"Hi Camille, the people want to know, are you dating Johnny Depp?" the videographer asked, eliciting a hearty laugh but no answer from the seasoned attorney.

"It's all over the internet. Can you set the record straight?" the videographer pressed, as Vasquez shook her head, smiling, and strolled by the cameraman with the rest of Depp's legal team.

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A Fox News Digital video taken Wednesday showed a crowd of over 100 people cheering Johnny Depp as he arrived Wednesday to the the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Virginia.

Depp waved to the supporters from his black SUV, as they chanted "Johnny! Johnny!"

His ex-wife Amber Heard didn't receive a similar reception. As she pulled up in a truck, the crowd booed her.

A screenshot of a photo Rocky Pennington took of Amber Heard with her publicist at a Los Angeles courthouse May 27, 2016.

Rocky Pennington backed up Amber Heard's abuse claims Tuesday in a pre-taped deposition played for jurors at Johnny Depp's defamation trial against the actress.

After Depp allegedly bashed a cellphone into Heard's face on May 21, 2016, Pennington, who was living next door, rushed over to the apartment.

"She was calling for help and that had never happened before," said Pennington, who was frequently emotional and tearful during her testimony.

She put herself in between Depp and Heard, who was on the couch crying.

"He was yelling, yelling, and I put my hands up on his chest, and I was like stop, just stop, just trying to calm him down," she recalled. "He hit my hands away."

Pennington said Depp was yelling at Heard to quit crying and get up, as he stepped closer and closer.

"I remember thinking there was this big orange, ceramic ashtray on the coffee table, and I was thinking if he gets any closer I’m just going to pick up that ashtray and hit him with it," she said.

Bodyguards for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star entered the apartment and told him it was time to leave.

Depp and Heard had't seen each other since the housekeeper found excrement on his side of their marital bed.

He stopped by the penthouse to pick up some items, and the two began arguing over who was responsible for the malodorous deposit.

Six days later, Heard went to a Los Angeles courthouse, with a bruise under her right eye and accompanied by her publicist, and obtained a restraining order against Depp.

Her ex-husband's legal team has accused Heard of making up the physical abuse allegations against him.

A photo combination of trial exhibits showing Amber Heard's alleged injuries from Johnny Depp. (Trial evidence.)

Amber Heard's former best friend testified in a pre-taped deposition that she became worried as the actress's relationship with Johnny Depp became increasingly more volatile and violent.

I was scared for Amber," Raquel Pennington testified in the deposition played for jurors Wednesday. "I was also sad for Johnny because he was my friend too, and I really wanted them to be able to get it together." Pennington's eyes welled with tears and she dabbed them with a tissue.

"In the beginning, I wasn’t worried," she said. "Towards the end when the physical abuse was more evident I was worried. I was worried for her physical safety. I was worried that when he turned, he might actually do something that was worse than he ever intended.”

After Depp allegedly beat up Heard Dec. 15, 2015, Pennington took photos of Heard's alleged injuries and the damage to the apartment. Heard's lawyer asked Pennington to describe one of the images.

"It's a photo of Amber's face with two black eyes and a swollen nose and bottom lip," she said.

Pennington also documented the damage to the apartment -- including a busted platform bed, an overturned lamp and shattered glass.

Heard testified that she confronted Depp over alleged infidelity, sparking the vicious altercation. The actress said Depp allegedly yanked out a chunk of her hair, repeatedly punched her and choked her unconscious.

Johnny Depp and ex-girlfriend Ellen Barkin in 1997. (Photo by Barry King/WireImage via Getty)

Amber Heard's team has a line-up of witnesses scheduled for Wednesday -- including Ellen Barkin's pre-taped deposition.

Barkin, who dated Johnny Depp in 1997 when they filmed "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," is testifying on behalf of Heard.

Barkin, 68, is expected to tell jurors about an incident in Depp's hotel room during their brief romance that did not end on good terms.

She offered a preview of her potential testimony in Depp's 2020 UK defamation trial against The Sun newspaper for calling him a wife-beater. In that case, Barkin testified that Depp threw a wine bottle across a hotel room during an argument he had with his assistants. It did not hit anyone, she said. Depp lost the UK case. 

Other potential witnesses whose pre-taped depositions may be played Wednesday include Raquel Pennington's former fiancé, Heard's makeup artist Melanie Inglessis, her acting coach Kristy Sexton and former staffer at the Eastern Columbia Building Cornelius Harrell.

Heard's sister, Whitney Henriquez, is the only defense witness who may testify in-person Wednesday in the explosive defamation trial in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia.

Injuries Amber Heard allegedly sustained after fight with Johnny Depp in Australia. (Trial evidence.)

Jurors were played a pre-taped deposition of Amber Heard's former best friend Raquel Pennington.

In the video, recorded in January, Pennington said she observed "very, very deep long cuts on the back of [Heard's] forearms" the day the actress returned from Australia.

Heard allegedly also showed her friend injuries on her feet that she told her were from broken bottles.

"They were smaller cuts than the ones on her arms," Pennington said.

Heard testified that ex-husband Johnny Depp abused her for three days in Australia in March 2015 in a drug-fueled rage, allegedly raping her with a liquor bottle, repeatedly punching her and dragging her nude body across broken glass. He has denied the allegations.

Depp told jurors Heard hurled a vodka bottle at him during the brawl that shattered on his hand, severing the tip of his middle finger.

iO Tillett Wright attends the 15th Annual Queen USA Transgender Beauty Pageant at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on October 22, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Vincent Sandoval/WireImage)

The first witness after Amber Heard stepped off the stand Tuesday recalled a conversation about a defecation incident during a pre-recorded deposition to the court.

In a taped deposition from March 2022, iO Tillett Wright — an author, producer and longtime friend of Heard, 36 — testified during the ongoing defamation trial that he received a phone call from Heard on May 21, 2016, asking him to clear up the infamous fecal matter incident.

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The rest of Raquel Pennington's deposition is expected to be played for jurors Wednesday morning.

Screenshot of Amber Heard's former best friend Raquel Pennington in a pre-recorded deposition.

Raquel Pennington testified Tuesday in a pre-recorded deposition on behalf of Amber Heard.

She said she hadn't spoken to her former best friend in more than six months at the time the deposition was taken Jan. 20.

"I wouldn't consider her not a friend," she said. "We don't speak. We are not enemies." Pennington said they met in 2003 and had recently grown apart. The last conversation they had was about Heard's baby.

Throughout Heard's testimony, she referred to Pennington as her "best friend."

In response to questioning by Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez, Pennington said that she and Heard once got into a physical altercation.

They were preparing for Thanksgiving, looking for some glasses or dishes, she said.

"We couldn’t find them anywhere and then she finally found them in a place that I thought I had looked," Pennington said. "She thought that I wasn’t looking hard enough." Pennington shoved her, and Heard responded by hitting her on the cheek.

Pennington lived rent-free in one of Depp's Los Angeles penthouses up until the couple split up.

iO Tillett Wright received a phone call from Amber Heard May 21, 2016, asking him to clear up the infamous defecation incident.

Johnny Depp had swung by the penthouse to pick up some items about a month after he found what he described as human excrement in their marital bed after a massive fight.

"She said, 'Johnny thinks that you and I together defecated on his pillow,'" he recalled. "I think the words used were sh-t on his pillow so I started laughing." He and Heard guffawed, enraging Depp.

Wright tried to explain that he wasn't at the apartment on the morning in question, then he heard a loud noise. Wright mimicked the sound by smacking his closed fist into his hand.

"The phone dropped and he said to her, 'You think I hit you? You think I f--king hit you? what if I peel your f--king hair back?" Wright testified in a pre-recorded deposition. "I remember her screaming and I hung up the phone," he said, as his eyes swelled with tears.

He called her best friend, Raquel Pennington, who lived next door then called the police.Heard testified that Depp smashed her cellphone into her face.

iO Tillett Wright corroborated several of Amber Heard's allegations of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of ex-husband Johnny Depp.

He said he visited Heard's apartment after Depp allegedly beat her up Dec. 15, 2015 during a fight over the "Black Mass" star's alleged infidelity.

Wright said he observed the injuries Heard had allegedly sustained -- including a bruise on her scalp and temple and a split lip.

Months earlier, Wright attended their wedding celebration in February 2015 and Depp allegedly made a disturbing remark, he said.

“He said, 'We’re married now. I can punch her in the face and no one can do anything about it,'” Wright recalled.

Marilyn Manson arriving at a 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. (Photo by Toni Anne Barson/WireImage)

iO Tillett Wright said in a pre-recorded deposition that he recalled a time when Amber Heard was out of town and Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson drank heavily and "partook in a lot of cocaine."

He said actor Paul Bettany was also present. "He really resented having to be sober. He didn't want to be," Wright said of Depp.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star allegedly showed him a marijuana closet with "tens and tens of pounds of weed."

When Depp was high, he could be extremely cruel, Wright said.

After Depp and Heard had a fight, Wright said he told him,“All she’s got is her looks and she has no talent and when her tits start to sag and her face gets wrinkly, nobody is going to be interested in her for anything so she better figure out another way to survive."

Jealousy and Depp's drug addiction were recurring themes in prior relationships -- including with Winona Ryder, the actor allegedly told Wright.

A screenshot of iO Tillett Wright testifying on behalf of Amber Heard in a pre-recorded deposition played May 17 in court.

iO Tillet Wright was the first witness the defense called after Amber Heard stepped off the stand.

In a pre-recorded deposition, Wright testified that he met Heard in Los Angeles in late 2011 and they struck up a friendship. Wright said he later also became close with Depp -- a relationship that ended in December 2015.

He also said he hadn't spoken to Heard in over a year, suggesting the two were no longer on good terms.

“Johnny when sober was lovely and magical and very funny," Wright said. "I felt a kindred connection with him and a shared perspective on the world that I’ve shared with very few people in my life." He described Depp as extremely generous.

But added that Depp could also be "incredibly mean and vicious especially when drunk or high."

Amber Heard testifying in Fairfax, Virginia, May 17, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via Reuters)

After a grueling cross-examination, Amber Heard remained on the witness stand for a brief redirect by her attorney Elaine Bredehoft.

The lawyer asked her why her ex-husband Johnny Depp won't look at her -- even once -- during the trial.

“Because he’s guilty," she answered defiantly. "Because he knows he’s lying otherwise why can’t he look at me? I survived. I survived that man, and I’m here and able to look at him.”

Depp, without looking up, smiled and whispered to one of his lawyers, Ben Chew.

Bredehoft also asked Heard about the video of her and actor James Franco in an elevator riding to the apartment she shared with Depp in Los Angeles the day before she filed for divorce.

"What did Mr. Franco do in the elevator before laying his head on your shoulder," the lawyer asked.

"He touched the side of my face and responded to what he saw," she replied, referring to a bruise under her right eye that she said she sustained after Depp allegedly bashed her in the face with a cellphone.

Heard was on the witness stand for four days.

Tasya van Ree and Amber Heard attend a party in Los Angeles Dec. 15, 2010. (Photo by Brian To/FilmMagic via Getty))

Camille Vasquez questioned Amber Heard Tuesday during a grueling cross-examination about her arrest for allegedly hitting her ex-girlfriend Tasya van Ree in 2009.

"You committed domestic violence  against Ms. van Ree during your relationship didn’t you?" asked Vasquez.

"No, I did not," she replied. 

"You assaulted her at a Seattle airport in 2009 didn’t you?" the attorney pressed.

"That’s not true," Heard insisted. Vasquez went on to read a news article about the incident.

Two officers allegedly witnessed Heard smack van Ree in the arm and yank her necklace off, and she was arrested.

But prosecutors declined to pursue the case. News of the altercation didn't emerge in the press until 2016, and van Ree publicly defended Heard who accused Depp of planting the article.

"So Mr. Depp is not the only domestic partner you’ve assaulted?" Vasquez inquired.

"I’ve never assaulted Mr. Depp or any other person I was romantically linked to, ever,” Heard replied.

"No further questions, your Honor," Vasquez said, wrapping up a day and a half of cross-examination.

Jurors Tuesday watched a clip of Amber Heard's videotaped deposition from the UK libel case that Johnny Depp brought against The Sun newspaper for calling him a "wife-beater." He lost the case.

In the 2016 deposition, Heard munches on a snack, rolls her eyes and laughs as she listens to an audio recording of her and Depp discussing a physical fight.

Depp told her in the recording that she hit him on the head with a door and punched him in the jaw, which she doesn't dispute.

After playing the clip, Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez asked heard, "Is there something amusing to you about punching your husband in the jaw?"

Heard replied, "No, that is not what I was smiling about, and I don’t think it’s amusing."

Actress Amber Heard testifying in Fairfax County Circuit Court, in Virginia, May 17, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via Reuters)

Camille Vasquez played a series of audio recordings of Amber Heard admitting she hit Johnny Depp.

Although jurors had already heard the evidence, this was the first time it was presented in succession.

"I can't promise you that I won't get physical but sometimes I get so mad I just lose it," she told her alleged abuser, who she has accused of beating and sexually assaulting her.

In another clip, Depp said, "You f--king hit me last night."

Heard called Depp a "f--king baby" in another audo clip for complaining of her attack. "I’m sorry I hit you like this," she can be heard saying. "I did not punch you. I did not f--king deck you."

Later in the recording, she admitted, "I did start a physical fight."

Johnny Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez in court in Fairfax, Virginia, April 18, 2022. (Steve Helber/Pool via Reuters)

Camille Vasquez confronted Amber Heard with a slew of negative headlines about her personal life and toxic marriage to Johnny Depp.

The line of questioning is intended to undermine Heard's $100 million counterclaim alleging that Depp and his former lawyer Adam Waldman conspired to defame her by calling her abuse allegations a hoax. She said the accusations hurt her career and caused her emotional distress.

But Vasquez argued that most of this negative publicity didn't stem from Waldman's statements.

Heard called the bad press "a smear campaign" by Depp's sophisticated PR team.

"Ms. Heard, you’re not aware of any career opportunities you lost as a result of Mr. Waldman's statements, are you?" Vasquez asked.

"It’s kind of hard to point to the jobs you aren’t offered, the gigs you don’t get," she replied, adding that she lost a L'oreal campaign and her role in "Aquaman II" was minimized.

They released me from my contract. I fought to stay in it. I just don’t know how much I’m in  the final cut," she told jurors of the forthcoming film.

Heard also admitted to engaging Waldman on Twitter.

“Yes Mr. Waldman, I may be wearing makeup on this occasion but on every occasion you will still be short," she tweeted.

Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez continued cross-examination of Amber Heard.

Screenshot of evidence photos shown to Amber Heard Tuesday during cross-examination.

Camille Vasquez accused Amber Heard of enhancing photos of her alleged injuries during cross-examination.

Vasquez displayed side-by-side shot of Heard's face after Johnny Depp allegedly bashed her with a cellphone May 21, 2016.

"Didn't you change the saturation to look more red?" Vasquez asked Heard.

"That's not true," she replied. Vasquez reminded Heard of the numerous witnesses who testified that they observed no injuries on her face in the days after the alleged attack -- including Depp's friend Isaac Baruch, doorman Alex Romero and four police officers.

Vasquez also questioned Heard about two more images a friend took of her at a Los Angeles courthouse May 27, 2016, when she went to file for a restraining order.

The images show a downcast Heard wearing no makeup and sporting a blue bruise under her right eye.

"Are you having a photoshoot inside the courthouse while you're getting a TRO?" the attorney asked sarcastically.

"I would not characterize it that way, Ms. Vasquez," the actress replied. She asked Heard whether she used a color correction kit to hide the bruise to which Heard replied it was the only day she hadn't.

On direct, Heard testified she wanted to get the TRO privately but when she emerged from the courthouse, "there was a sea of photographers."

Vasquez implied that Heard had tipped off the media.

The chances of Amber Heard going to prison as a result of the defamation case ex-husband Johnny Depp brought against her is unlikely, experts told Fox News Digital. 

"You don’t go to jail as a result of a civil finding," said First Amendment attorney George Freeman of the Media Law Resource Center.

"The only way what happened so far in Virginia could lead to jail is if she’s accused and convicted of perjury, which there has been no official accusation of and which seems quite remote."

In Freeman's more than four decades as a First Amendment attorney, he has never seen a person charged with perjury in a civil case, he said.

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Jurors were shown video Tuesday of Amber Heard escorting James Franco into an elevator to the penthouse apartment she shared with then-husband Johnny Depp one day before she filed for divorce.

The May 22, 2016, visit at about 11 p.m. was one day after Heard alleges that Depp bashed her in the face with a cellphone. They both have their backs to the camera and their heads bowed in the footage. At one point, Franco affectionately rested his head on her neck.

Depp has accused Heard and Franco of having an affair during their marriage -- an allegation they've both denied.

Attorney Camille Vasquez suggested that it was odd Heard would invite Franco to the apartment she shared with Depp who she has described as violent and jealous.

Heard testified that she was so scared of Depp returning to the apartment in a rage that five days after Franco's visit she got a restraining order against her ex-husband.

"You knew that Mr. Depp was out of town May 22, 2016, didn't you?" Vasquez asked Heard.

"I didn't know his schedule," she replied.

Vasquez also said that Heard knew Depp was out of town and that she wasn't in any imminent danger when she went to a Los Angeles courthouse May 27, 2016, to obtain the restraining order.

"I'm not sure what I understood of his schedule at that time," Heard replied calmly.

Johnny Depp laughing during Amber Heard's cross-examination. (Screen shot)

As Depp's lawyer grilled Amber Heard Tuesday during cross-examination, Johnny Depp frequently smiled, laughed or smirked without looking in her direction.

Attorney Camille Vasquez played a disturbing audio recording of a fight between Amber Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp.

She repeatedly told Depp to "suck my d---" as he responded, "I don't want to."

“Go be a real married man," Heard mocked him. "Go deal with your sh-t the way a man does. Go run to the next house.”

Depp shot back, “You’re a f---king ridiculous clown. You’re the most spoiled f—king brat” as Heard can be heard chortling in the background.

Heard ridiculed Depp's role as heartthrob Tom Hanson in the TV series "21 Jump Street."

"You don't even know what movies I've done," Depp said to which she retorted, "You're a joke. You're a joke."

"I'm the joke in the industry, Amber?" Depp asked referencing her role in "Aquaman," as Heard continued laughing. "21 whatever it was, no one cares," she said.

At one point, Depp can be heard saying on the recording, "Your jealousy is so tragic."

Vasquez then questioned Heard about her most successful role yet, Mera in "Aquaman."

"He got you that role in 'Aquaman' didn't he?" asked the attorney, referring to Depp.

"No, Ms. Vasquez, I got that role by auditioning," she replied in a haughty tone.

A photo combination of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in court May 17, 2022. (Screenshot)

Johnny Depp's lawyer pressed Amber Heard about the details of an alleged sexual assault on her ex-husband's private island in the Bahamas in December 2015.

On direct, the actress told jurors that she got angry at Depp in front of his son, Jack, after he spilled wine on her three times while nodding off.

The ensuing fight allegedly resulted in Depp following her to the bathroom and violently shoving his fingers inside her.

Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez accused her of inventing the sexual assault allegation after the island's property manager, Tara Roberts, submitted a witness statement in the UK libel case.

Roberts said that she observed Heard chasing and clawing at Depp during the altercation. Vasquez then played a recording of Heard and Depp discussing the incident. Depp told her that her yelling at him over the spilled wine had upset his son.

“Meet a woman who wouldn't jump up and scream if she has been spilled on three times in a row," Heard shot back.

Vasquez then asked Heard, "You didn’t mention Mr. Depp sexually assaulting you in this recording?"

"That wasn't the point of this conversation," she replied. 

A screenshot of Raven-Symoné's YouTube clip mocking Amber Heard.

Raven-Symoné appears to have taken sides more than a year ago in Johnny Depp's war with Amber Heard, according to a video posted online that resurfaced amid the former couple’s messy defamation trial.

"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Listen, we are charging our Tesla right now, and I swear to God, the girl next to us, right now, is Amber Heard and her lesbian lover," Raven-Symoné sarcastically gushed as her wife, Miranda Pearman-Maday, laughed.

The clip was posted April 22, 2021, on the couple’s YouTube channel "8 PM" and is playfully titled "Is Amber Heard going to sue us!?!"

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Amber Heard's new head of PR has a checkered past and left two jobs after sexual harassment claims were leveled against him, according to a new report.

Angered over a slew of negative headlines, Heard abruptly fired her PR team mid-trial and replaced them with David Shane, 49, of Shane Communications to push a narrative of ex-husband Johnny Depp as an alleged drug-addled wife-beater.

But Shane, it turns out, has been dogged by impropriety allegations, according to an exclusive report from the DailyMail.

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The Maker's Mark whiskey bottle Amber Heard alleges Johnny Depp used to assault her. (Trial evidence)

Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez showed Amber Heard a picture of the bottle she previously testified that her ex-husband used to allegedly rape her.

"This is the Maker's Mark bottle that Mr. Depp sexually assaulted you with?” Vasquez asked.

"I was never sure it was, but it was that shape, it felt like that shape," she replied.

Vasquez questioned why Heard didn't seek medial treatment after she thought she was raped with what was possibly a broken bottle and suffered bleeding -- even though her doctor was at the house the next day. Heard also said that she sustained cuts on her feet and forearms.

Vasquez pointed out that Heard previously testified that Depp had smashed the tip of his finger off by punching a wall-mounted phone.

But the house manager, who took photos of the damage, said there was no wall-mounted phone in the the bar area.

Depp testified that Heard hurled a vodka bottle at him that severed the tip of his middle finger.

The large knife that Amber Heard gifted Johnny Depp in 2012. (Trial evidence.)

Johnny Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez asked Amber Heard about the large knife with a teal handle that she gifted her ex-husband for his birthday in 2012 -- the same year she testified that he started hitting her.

"It was during this cycles of violence that you gave Mr. Depp a knife?"

"I gave him a knife," she replied, as a court deputy pulled the blade from the sheath and showed it to jurors. "I wasn't worried he was going to stab me with it," Heard added.

Johnny Depp was cheered by more than one hundred fans gathered outside the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse, in Virginia, where he's suing his ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation. "Johnny! Johnny! Johnny!" the crowd chanted as he waved.

Heard, on the other hand, was loudly booed by his supporters as she pulled up. It is the second day of Heard's cross-examination by Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez and her fourth day on the stand.

Actor Amber Heard testifies May 16, 2022. (Steve Helber/Pool via Reuters)

Jurors were played a clip of Amber Heard telling a Dutch talk show host that she had donated the entirety of her $7 million divorce settlement to charity.

“$7 million in total was donated," she said on "RTL Late Night," which aired in October 2018. "I split it between the ACLU and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. I wanted nothing.”

After the split in 2016, Heard publicly promised to donate the settlement to her two favored charities. But there was one problem.

"But you hadn’t donated your entire $7 million settlement to charity at this point?" asked Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez.

"That’s incorrect," Heard replied. "I pledged the entirety."

Vasquez pressed her again. "Try to answer my question, sitting here today, you have not donated the $7 million divorce settlement to charity?" the attorney asked.

"I use pledge and donation synonymous with one another," Heard shot back testily to which Vasquez replied, "I don't."

Heard told the jury that she had not fulfilled the pledge yet because Depp sued her. But Vasquez pointed out that she had received all the money 14 months before her ex-husband filed the $50 million defamation lawsuit in Virginia.

"I disagree with your characterization of that," Heard said in response.

Vasquez also confronted Heard with her testimony from the UK libel case, where she made the same claim.

Court broke for the day and Heard is expected to return at 9 a.m. Tuesday for the continuation of cross.

Jurors were shown photos of Amber Heard's unmarked back at a movie premiere the day after she testified that Johnny Depp kneeled on her back and viciously beat her in a Tokyo hotel room.

"You'd agree there are no bruises or physical marks?" asked Depp's defense lawyer Camille Vasquez.

"Not that I can see," she replied.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp at an event one day after he allegedly hit her. (Trial evidence)

Johnny Depp's lawyer showed Amber Heard a series of photographs taken of her at an event the night after she testified her ex-husband hit her so hard she may have had a broken nose.

"Your nose doesn't appear to be injured in any of these pictures, does it Ms. Heard?" asked Depp's lawyer Camille Vasquez on cross-examination.

"I'm wearing makup," she replied haughtily.

"And makeup covers up swelling?" press the attorney.

“Makeup will not cover up swelling but ice will,” Heard replied. “Normally the swelling after that kind of injury is not as bad as you would imagine.”

Heard testified that in May 2014, the couple attended the Met Gala and Depp accused her of flirting with another woman. After whacking her in in the face, she said she had a swollen, discolored nose.

Actor Johnny Depp and then-wife Amber Heard at premiere of "Black Mass" in 2015 (Reuters/Fred Thornhill TPX)

At the beginning of cross-examination, Johnny Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez asked her if she had noticed that her ex-husband won't look at her.

"You know exactly why Mr. Depp won't look at you. He promised you he would never see your eyes again, is that true?"

"I don't recall that," Heard replied.

Vasquez then played an audio recording of Heard and Depp's final meeting at a hotel in San Francisco in the summer of 2016 after she filed for divorced and obtained a restraining order against him.

Heard tried to give Depp a hug but he refused. "Please I just want to hug you and say bye," she tearfully told him. Depp refused.

"I am nothing to you, and I will always be nothing to you," Depp said. “You will not see my eyes again."

Amber Heard wrapped up her direct testimony on the witness stand trying to bolster her $100 million countersuit against ex-husband Johnny Depp over statements he made through his former lawyer calling her abuse allegations a hoax.

Heard said she was dropped from a L'Oreal campaign and her role in "Aquaman 2" was significantly paired down after Depp accused her of lying about the abuse claims. She said she received $1 million for "Aquaman" and $2 million for the second installment -- despite her role as Mera being minimized.

She has only acted in one independent film since for which she earned $65,000, she said.

"Every time I look at it which is everyday, I am set back, I have to re-live it," she said of the comments Depp's attorney made to media outlets. "I have to have the worst most painful things I've ever gone through - and narrowly survived at times - embarrassing intimate details that I never wanted to be public and to have them used every single day to call me a liar."

She added: "I have a baby I want to move on. I want Johnny to move on, too. I want him to leave me alone."

After the 10-minute break, cross-examination of Heard will begin.

Amber Heard's 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post was about her, not Johnny Depp, she told jurors Monday.

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for defaming him by calling herself a victim of domestic abuse.

"None of it's about Johnny," she said in an impassioned and angry voice. "The only one who thought it was about Johnny is Johnny. It’s about what happened to me after Johnny. It’s about what happened to me after I escaped my marriage.”

She said she endured two years of vitriol from the press and Depp fans.

Actor Amber Heard testifying Monday the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Virginia, U.S., May 16, 2022. (Steve Helber/Pool via Reuters)

Amber Heard's lawyer asked the actress why she agreed to take $7 million after their brief marriage.

"I didn’t care about the money," she said. "If I didn’t agree to a number, it would be overturned. I took far less than what they were offering and what I was entitled to."

All she cared about in the settlement, she said, was the pair releasing a joint statement that acknowledged she hadn't lied about the allegations.

"All I have is my name," she told jurors. "I come from nothing. All I have is my integrity. All I have is my name, and that’s exactly what he promised to take from me."

She agreed to donate the $7 million equally to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the ACLU -- but said she couldn't fulfill the pledge after Depp sued her in 2019.

"I have spent over $6 million..." she said before Judge Penney Azcarate sustained an objection from Depp's lawyer.

Depp's business manager testified that by the end of 2018, Depp had already paid her the full $7 million.

About two months after Amber Heard filed for divorce and a restraining order against ex-husband Johnny Depp, she asked to meet him California.

In the audio-recorded conversation, Heard can be Heard telling Depp that people were turning on her after she made allegations against him, calling her a liar. The actor had a sophisticated PR team that was conducting a smear campaign, she said.

She told Depp she hadn't filed criminal charges because the evidence against him would be so overwhelming, and she couldn't stop a prosecution once it started.

"It would be evidence, tons of it and it would be through years and it would be unbelievable, unbelievable to imagine a secret fight club or that I had been plotting to do this for three years...no one is going to believe that,” she told him during the June 2016 meeting, which was in violation of the restraining order she obtained against him for allegedly bashing her in the face with a cellphone.

Her lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, asked her to explain the comments.

"I was trying to point out how absurd it would be for him to keep making me prove this by calling me a liar," she said, fighting back tears. "I was trying to get him to not call me a liar because everything I had said to date ,everything I have said now, is the truth."

Amber Heard holds up a makeup kit like the one she alleges she used to cover bruises. (Screenshot of testimony)

Amber Heard said she used a color-correction kit to conceal bruises and other facial injuries -- but clarified it was not the Milani product her attorney held up during opening statements.

In a now viral TikTok video, Milani said the company didn't manufacture the product until 2017 -after Heard's relationship with Johnny Depp had already ended.

On the stand Monday, attorney Elaine Bredehoft handed Heard the Milani color-correction kit. As Heard held it up, she said,"This is, obviously, not the exact one I used to carry but I used to carry it with me all the time."

Bredehoft showed the compact to jurors during opening statements. "This was what she used," the lawyer said. "She became very adept at it. You're going to hear the testimony from Amber about how she had to mix the different colors for the different days of the bruises as they developed."

Heard explained on the stand that she used the color-correction kit -- in addition to her regular make-up when she had bruising or redness.

“Bruising on your face tends to heal a lot faster," she added. "Lips are the hardest because they crack and bleed, of course, but easy to hide if you wear lipstick."

Several witnesses have testified that Heard almost never wore makeup and they hadn't observed bruises or other injuries on her.

Bredehoft asked her about this claim. "They just don't know what they're talking about," she shot back. "I always wear makeup."

Amber Heard, with bruises on her face, outside at a Los Angeles courthouse after obtaining a restraining order against Johnny Depp May 27, 2016. (Reuters)

Two officers showed up after Johnny Depp allegedly bashed a phone into then-wife Amber Heard's face.

They both said they didn't observe any marks on her and closed out the incident as a "verbal dispute." Another set of officers came later that night and also said they didn't observe any injuries.

But Heard, 36, testified Monday that one of the first officers who responded pressured her to file a complaint, gesturing to her face, but she refused.

“I wanted to protect Johnny,” she said. "I did not want them to arrest Johnny. I did not want this to happen. I did not want any of this to happen."

Depp's team has accused Heard of faking her injuries from the May 21, 2016, cellphone fight that began over who pooped in their marital bed.

Screenshot of Amber Heard testifying May 16 at ex-husband Johnny Depp's defamation trial.

Amber Heard said that she hadn't seen Johnny Depp in a month when he came by their penthouse apartment the day after his mother passed away.

"He starts talking about this feces again, this prank that one of my friends had left for him in his bed," she said of the May 21, 2016, altercation that started with an argument over the infamous defecation incident.

“My friends wouldn’t do that, that’s not something a bunch of 30-year-old women thinks is funny.”

After the couple got into a fight on her 30th birthday in April, Depp's housekeeper found a large stool in their marital bed. Heard testified that Depp's teacup yorkie, Boo, was responsible, but Depp has insisted that only a human could produce excrement of that size.

During the argument over the origin of the poop, Heard said she called her friend iO Tillett Wright to prove to Depp they didn't do it. But Depp, she said, grabbed the phone out of her hand and began raging at Wright, "You dyke b---!"

Wright allegedly told Heard to get out of the house because it wasn't safe further setting Depp off, Heard testified.

"He pulls his arm back with the phone and throws it at my face and hit me," Heard told jurors. As she's weeping on the sofa, Depp alleged whacked her on the top of the head with his "heavy ringed hand" then yanked her off the couch by her hair.

Her friend, Raquel Pennington, who was living next door, came over and stepped in between them, she said.

"He’s screaming at me to get the f--k up. 'Amber, get the f--k yup Amber get the f--k up,'" she testified. "Every single time he said it, he's screaming it louder and louder and louder."

Depp's security guards entered the apartment and pulled Depp away. He allegedly rampaged through the apartment, using a magnum wine bottle to smash picture frames and overturn boxes.

Jurors were shown photos of the red marks on Heard's face and extensive damage to the apartment.

Six days later, Heard walked into a Los Angeles courthouse and obtained a restraining order against Depp.

A photo combination of Elon Musk, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. (Getty)

Amber Heard said that Johnny Depp stood her up at the met Gala in May 2016 and that's when she met billionaire Elon Musk.

Heard and Depp hadn't seen each other since their blowup on her 30th birthday in April. She thought he might still show up to the Met Gala, where they were guests of Ralph Lauren -- but he didn't.

“I got out of the car and walked the red carpet by myself," she recalled. "I was standing in line right in front of a gentleman. It was Elon."

The Tesla titan was there with his mother and the pair started chatting. They had met briefly once before, she said.

"He seemed like a real gentleman, really nice," she added. "We got to speaking that night and eventually became friends." They later went public with their relationship and dated about a year.

Depp has accused Heard of starting a torrid affair with Musk while they were still married.

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia May 16, 2022. (Reuters)

Amber Heard blamed the infamous defecation incident on Johnny Depp's teacup yorkie Boo.

Depp had stormed out of their apartment morning after another blow up over him not showing up on time for her 30th birthday dinner. She told jurors he violently attacked her and sexually assaulted her during the April 2016 altercation.

She left Boo in her bed while she and her friend packed for their trip to Coachella.

“[Boo] had eaten Johnny’s weed when she was a puppy and had bowel control issues," Heard told jurors. "We regularly had to take her to the vet to figure out what was wrong with this dog."

Boo sometimes had accidents on the floor and in their marital bed but she didn't notice anything amiss that morning, Heard said.

After she and her friend left the apartment, a housekeeper found a sizable stool in the bed that Depp has described as so substantial it could only have come from a human.

"Did you commit any kind of prank?" asked the actress's lawyer Elaine Bredehoft.

"Absolutely not," she replied. The question was in reference to testimony from Depp's chauffeur, who said Heard admitted to him it was a "horrible prank gone wrong."

Bredehoft asked Heard why she wouldn't be behind the vulgar stunt.

“First of all, I don’t think that's funny," she answered. "I don’t know what grown woman does. I was also not in a pranking mood. My life was falling apart."

She added of the allegation she or her girlfriend defecated in the bed as a joke, "I don’t think that’s funny period, that’s disgusting.”

Amber Heard testified Monday that she and ex-husband Johnny Depp had a huge fight on her 30th Birthday after he didn't show up on time for her dinner.

Depp, 58, previously testified he was at a business meeting where he found out he was in serious financial straits.

After Heard's guests left, she allegedly confronted Depp. They fought and eventually he wrestled her down to the bed and "grabbed me by the pubic bone area," she said.

She continued, "As best I can describe it, he kind of just pushed me down, held me down by it and asked me, taunting me, if I was so f--king tough."

Amber Heard admitted on the recording that she hit ex-husband Johnny Depp.

"I was hitting you, I was not punching you," she said on the recording from September 2015 that was previously played in court. "I did start a physical fight."

She later said during the same conversation, "I get so mad I f--king lose it."

Heard explained away the admission.

It’s almost more reassuring to take accountability for it than to accept the senseless nature of the violence," said Heard, waring a gray jacket and her hair pulled up in a loose bun. "No matter what I did, no matter what I did he still hit me."

Trial evidence

Jurors were shown photos of Amber Heard at a movie premiere for "When I Live My Life Over Again" in April 2015 -- a month after she says Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle in Australia.

The photos show scars on her forearms that she testified were from Depp dragging her across broken glass during the vicious brawl.

That same month, she returned to Australia with Depp and they stayed at the same rented mansion, where she alleged he had brutally beaten, strangled and raped her with a Maker's Mark bottle on March 8, 2015.

“We were in a really beautiful peaceful period, it was wonderful," she said of that trip. “We went back to a very cleaned up version of that home. Same walls, same structure but looked a bit different.”

Her lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, asked her how she felt returning to the same house.

“The home. The home isn’t the problem," she replied. "If you’re living in domestic violence, you don’t just not go home."

Actress Amber Heard returned to the stand Monday after a one week break in the trial.

She said she was mistaken about the first date of domestic violence when Depp allegedly hit her during an argument about his "Wino Forever" tattoo that referenced his ex-girlfriend Winona Ryder.

Heard initially testified it was 2013 but said Monday it was actually in 2012.

“You never forget the first time someone hits you like that I just got the date wrong," she told jurors.

A photo combination of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in court. (Jim Lo Scalzo via Reuters)

Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard is set to resume Monday after a weeklong recess.

When the trial reconvenes May 16 in Fairfax, Virginia, Depp's legal team will cross-examine Heard about her tumultuous 15-month marriage to Depp.

Depp's business manager, Ed White, told the jury of six men and three women Depp paid over $14 million in their divorce settlement after Heard’s financial demands "continually increased" during negotiations. 

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