A former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp -- but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary.
Heard descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, Kate James testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp's libel suit against Heard.The "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor has accused Heard of indirectly defaming him in a 2018 opinion piece that she wrote for The Washington Post.
The video testimony from James offered an inverse view: Depp was the peaceful one, she said, while Heard was frequently intoxicated and verbally abusive, including to her own mother and sister.James, who worked for Heard from 2012 to 2015, said she was paid "very poorly." She said she was hired with an initial salary of US$25 an hour and that her duties ranged from picking up Heard's dry cleaning to talking with the actress' Hollywood agents.
Regarding Heard and Depp's time together, James said Heard was a "very dramatic person" who was deeply insecure in the relationship. Heard often called James to cry and complain about Depp, she said. Some of the deposition focused on a text message that Depp had sent to James after he and Heard split up. Depp's text read: "Come over for a spot of purple and we'll fix her flabby ass nice and good."
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