Amber Heard cross-examined about fights with Johnny Depp

Heard was cross-examined Tuesday after her testimony in Depp’s libel swimsuit in opposition to her.

Depp is suing Heard in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court docket over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Submit describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His attorneys say he was defamed by the article despite the fact that it by no means talked about his identify. The trial is now in its fifth week.

Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, questioned Heard about a wide range of incidents through which she says she was assaulted by Depp.

Questioning was significantly intense over a March 2015 battle the couple had in Australia, shortly after they had been married, whereas Depp was taking pictures a fifth movie within the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.

It was throughout that battle that Heard says she was sexually assaulted. Depp, alternatively, says he was the sufferer, and that he misplaced the tip of his center finger when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.

Vasquez questioned why Heard by no means sought medical consideration, despite the fact that she mentioned her ft had been reduce by damaged glass and he or she was bleeding after the assault.

“You are the one who assaulted somebody with a bottle in Australia, is not that proper, Ms. Heard?” Vasquez requested.

“I did not assault Johnny in Australia. I did not assault Johnny ever,” Heard responded.

Vasquez then questioned why Heard wrote a sequence of affection notes to Depp within the months after she was assaulted.

Heard has mentioned she believed Depp had hit all-time low after the Australia battle and was dedicated to sobriety. She has mentioned many of the assaults occurred whereas Depp was beneath the affect of medicine or alcohol.

“When issues had been good, they had been actually good,” she mentioned.