The 36-year-oldAquamanactress went under oath on Wednesday in the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom, telling the jurors about the ups and downs of her relationship with Depp, 58, whom she met while making the 2011 movieThe Rum Diary.
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Heard said she became confused when Depp kept asking where she was “hiding” something. He started “patting me down,” said Heard, who alleged that Depp then ripped off her dress and her underwear.
“He’s touching my breasts, he’s touching my thighs. He rips my underwear off. And then he—,” she continued, adding after a pause, “proceeds to do a cavity search. He said he was looking for his drugs, his cocaine, his coke. I was wondering how I — somebody who didn’t do cocaine and was against it, [cocaine] in and of itself was causing problems in our relationship — why would I hide his drugs from him? He was insinuating that I was doing it or something. It made no sense.”
“He shoved his fingers inside me,” she said while shaking her head. “I just stood there staring at the stupid light. I didn’t know what to do. I just stood there while he did that. He twisted his fingers around. I didn’t say, like, ‘stop’ or anything.”
Heard said she doesn’t remember how she slept that night or whether she confronted him about the alleged sexual assault. “I remember wanting it to be okay … [and] to go back to normal,” she added.
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When Heard’s attorney Ben Rottenborn, in his opening statements, brought upHeard’s allegations of sexual assaultalong with other forms of domestic abuse she experienced, a spokesperson for Depp denied the allegation, calling it “fictitious” and “for the purpose of Hollywood shock value of which Amber has mastered and used to exploit a serious social movement.”
Rottenborn said that Heard “did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp. … You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered. You’ll hear that straight from her. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. It happened.”
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Depp, who has said multiple times under oath that he has never struck Heard or any woman, has testified that his “goal is the truth” as he seeks to clear his name in the trial, which is being televised live via various outlets. Ahead of the trial, Heard said in a statement that “hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny. I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world.”
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
source: people.com
