As the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard defamation trial goes on a 10-day prescheduled hiatus, here’s what has happened so far.
Amber Heard has reportedly fired her public relations team over negative coverage of her during her defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp. Depp's witnesses and testimony has caused a stir online and Heard has been unhappy with the negative coverage towards her.defamation trial has now concluded its fourth week, after three weeks centering on the volatile relationship between Depp and Heard.
For Depp to win his lawsuit, he not only needs to show that he was falsely accused, but he also needs to show that the op-ed piece is what specifically caused the damage. FILE - Jack Whigham, talent manager for US actor Johnny Depp, is seen on a monitor as he testifies remotely in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virgnia, on Monday May 2, 2022.
Meanwhile, Depp’s lawyers presented testimony from an intellectual property expert who testified about the negative turn in Depp’s reputation. The data showed trend lines from Google searches with negative spikes occurring after the 2016 abuse allegations, but negligible or nonexistent changes after the Washington Post article. FILE - Forensic psychologist Dr. Dawn Hughes, testifies during a hearing at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 3, 2022.
The sexual assaults included being forced to perform oral sex and having Depp penetrate her with a liquor bottle, the psychologist, Dawn Hughes, told jurors at the trial. Dawn Hughes, a clinical psychologist hired by Amber Heard's legal team in her defamation trial against actor Johnny Depp, testified that Heard demonstrated clear psychological and traumatic effects from intimate partner violence. Hughes told the jury that Heard had PTSD from the alleged abuse, which Depp vehemently denies.
She said that the first act of physical violence came in 2013 as she was looking at one of his tattoos and couldn't read it. She laughed when Depp told her it said "Wino" — an alteration to a tattoo he had made when he'd been dating actor Winona Ryder. Heard said she knew she should leave Depp the first time he hit her, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.
The March 2015 incident in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, is sharply disputed and has been a focal point of the four-week civil trial. "I couldn't get up. I thought he was punching me," she said. "I could just feel this pressure on my pubic bone."
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