Johnny Depp's life changed in 2016. That year, after a little over a year of marriage, his wife Amber Heard accused him of domestic violence … Facts that the star of Pirates of the Caribbeanes has always denied. The 57-year-old actor intends to prove his innocence during the libel lawsuit against the tabloid The Sun, who called him "women slugger" in an article published in 2018. Since Tuesday, July 7, 2020, witnesses have taken the bar of the High Court in London to give their versions of the facts. Monday July 20, 2020, it was again the turn of the main interested party, Amber Heard, to return to her relationship with the actor.
"He explicitly threatened to kill me"
"He explicitly threatened to kill me on several occasions", assured the actress of 34 years before explaining, as reported The Sun : "He blamed a self-created person, whom he often called 'the monster' for all his actions." Amber Heard also added that her ex-husband began to be violent with her in 2013. He would have lost control 14 times in three years before going even further by claiming that "death was the only way to end their relationship" : "He explained what he would do to me if I left him or if I hurt him, for example, that he would mutilate my face so that no one else wanted me", she confided in front of the judges.
"A jealous person"
According to Amber Heard, Johnny Depp would be "a jealous person" who "does not respect women". The young woman explained in her testimony that she remained in a relationship with him in the hope of helping him to fight his disease, addiction. Comments supported by lawyers at News Group Newspapers, the tabloid's publishing house The Sun, who claimed that Johnny Depp "turned her rage and frustration on Mrs. Heard, berating her and launching into a variety of vile, crass and unreasonable accusations."
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