Actress Amber Heard testified under oath that she never cheated on ex-husband Johnny Depp with Tesla CEO Elon Musk or actor James Franco, and that she never feigned injury to implicate him.
Heard, 34, testified on behalf of Sun newspaper, whose publisher, News Group Newspapers, is being sued by her ex-husband Depp for defamation over a 2018 article calling him a “wife beater.”
The publisher of The Sun and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, were sued by the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor for allegedly defaming him and damaging his career.
According to the paper’s defense team
the piece was based on 14 cases where Heard accused Depp of assaulting her in various situations during their rocky two-year marriage, including Los Angeles, Australia, Japan, the Bahamas, and aboard a private plane.
Heard has been questioned about conversations she had with Elon Musk.
The actress was accused of secretly meeting Musk while Depp was abroad filming Pirates of the Caribbean 5.
When asked about the Supreme Court charges, Heard said, “Not that that matters, but no.”
When confronted by a security guard’s claim that Mr. Musk visited their Los Angeles penthouse in 2015, Heard replied, “He was wrong, I didn’t interact with Elon until 2016.”
The actor’s attorney, Eleanor Laws, said: “You’ve accused him (Mr Depp) of being jealous over and over, but we can see you’re communicating with someone. Did you tell Mr. Depp about this?’
mr. Justice Nicol, the trial judge, intervened, and Laws said she was trying to challenge “the suggestion that there was illogical jealousy.”
“All jealousy can be considered illogical,” she noted.
Heard tells Musk in text conversations that she plans to get a restraining order against Depp.
“I’ll arrange 24/7 security for you,” the billionaire says, adding: “The offer stands even if you never want to see me again… anyway, I’m sorry I’m an idiot. The radio silence hurts a lot. It only matters because I really like you.”
For the second day in a row, the “Aquaman” star provided a previously unseen photo of her right cheek and eye, which appeared damaged from an alleged incident on May 22, 2016. That evening, she said Depp threw a smartphone at her face “Like a baseball pitcher.”
She alleges that the 57-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor assaulted her at least 14 times, repeatedly threatening to kill her, and punched, punched, headbutted, and kicked her during violent, jealous outbursts that were fueled. through heavy alcohol or drug use.
Depp denies hitting Heard and claims the allegations are false.
After the latest attack
Heard, 34, said she had decided to request a restraining order against Depp, telling a friend that he was “completely delusional and insane”.
In the wake of the alleged attack, she said she reached out to her “support group” before going to court to make the abuse claims public for the first time.
“After the incident in May, I felt I had no choice and that I had to do what I had to do to be safe,” she said. “I was really scared to leave Johnny and I had talked about this with my friends in the months leading up to the May incident and my decision to file a restraining order.”
The 34-year-old model, who was dressed in a white knee-length dress with braided hair in court on Tuesday, claimed no one noticed her injuries as she put on makeup after leaving her house.
Heard also denied having an affair with James Franco after surveillance footage of the two of them was shown at the Eastern Columbia building.
Laws asked, “Are you trying to avoid being seen by the camera there?”
Mrs. Heard replied, ‘We were talking. He said to me, “Oh my god, what happened to you?”
“He saw my face . . . when I let him in. He saw my face and said, “What the f***?”
Depp allegedly threatened to damage her face or pay someone to attack her if she left him, telling her, “The only way out of this relationship is death.”
The couple broke up in 2017
A year after she was given a restraining order against him. The 57-year-old actor and his ex-wife have accused each other of physical and mental abuse for years.