LIVE: Amber Heard returns to stand in defamation battle with Johnny Depp
Heard is expected to testify for a second day on Thursday in the defamation case brought by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, the Hollywood star she said assaulted her multiple times before and during their brief marriage.
"He slapped me across the face," Heard said. "I didn't know what was going on. I just stared at him."Depp, 58, testified earlier in the trial that the tattoo fight "didn't happen" and that he never hit Heard. He argued that she was the one who was the abuserThe star of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films and others is suing Heard, 36, for $50 million, saying she defamed him when she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse.
Earlier, psychologist Dawn Hughes testified that Heard had told her Depp had put his fingers up her vagina in a hunt for cocaine. Heard's attorneys have argued that she told the truth and that her opinion was protected free speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
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