Depp’s legal advisor addressed why Amber Heard composed a progression of loving notes to the entertainer in the months after she said she was attacked.
Questioning Heard in court in Fairfax County, Virginia, his attorney Camille Vasquez recommended it was really her who had gone after Depp with a container.
Depp, 58, is suing his ex for $50m (£40m), saying she stigmatized him when she asserted in a paper article she was a casualty of homegrown maltreatment.
Heard, 36, has countersued for $100m, contending that he spread her by calling her a liar.
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The scrutinizing on Tuesday was especially warmed over a battle the couple had in Australia in March 2015, soon after they sealed the deal, while Depp was shooting the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film.
It was during that episode that Heard says she was physically attacked.
Depp himself has demanded he was the person in question and he lost the tip of his center finger when Heard tossed a vodka bottle at him.
Ms Vasquez addressed why Heard never attempted to certainly stand out, despite the fact that she said her feet were cut by broken glass and she was draining after the assault.
“You’re the person who attacked somebody with a jug in Australia, isn’t so correct, Ms Heard?” Ms Vasquez inquired.
Heard answered: “I didn’t attack Johnny in Australia. I didn’t attack Johnny of all time.”
Heard said she didn’t cause the finger injury.
Additionally during the previous couple’s criticism preliminary on Tuesday, Depp’s legal counselors read sections from a diary that Heard said the pair kept to share love notes.
Vasquez addressed why Heard composed a progression of friendly notes to Depp in the months after she said she was attacked.
Heard has said she accepted Depp had wound up in an almost impossible situation after the Australia battle and was focused on temperance.
She wrote in May 2015, two months after Depp’s finger injury, that: “Genuine affection isn’t about only the franticness of enthusiasm or rather picking the wellbeing of harmony. No, it’s about both.”
“I still, maybe like never before, need to tear you separated, gobble up you and relish the taste,” she added.
In one more selection after their July 2015 wedding trip on board the Orient Express train, Heard said she “was unable to envision a more stunning vacation”, and added: “I love you increasingly more every spending day.”
Sound accounts played in court
The court was additionally played a sound keep in which Heard can be heard telling Depp she hit him, however didn’t punch him. She said: “I didn’t punch you angel.” They then, at that point, squabble over the restroom entryway, which Depp says he was hit in the head with.
Ms Vasquez asked Heard: “You said on that recording you hit Mr Depp?”
Heard answered: “Yes.”
Ms Vasquez said: “You blamed him for being a child?”
Heard said OK, she called him a child after he hit her and pushed past her while she was blockading the entryway.
Another sound bite was played that is by all accounts from later in the couple’s contention about the washroom entryway. Ms Vasquez said: “You punched the entryway into his head didn’t you?”
Heard said she didn’t, yet that Depp had driven the entryway into her toes, harming her, and she answered on intuition.
Heard purchased Depp a blade as a present
Ms Vasquez likewise showed attendants a blade Heard purchased Depp as a present in 2012.
Heard, most popular for her job in the Aquaman film, said Depp had proactively turned vicious by then and frequently attacked her when he was intoxicated or utilizing drugs.
“This is the blade you provided for the one who might become inebriated and brutal toward you?” Ms Vasquez said to Heard, who answered that she didn’t figure he would wound her with it.
The preliminary proceeds.
