Amber Heard shared her witness statement at London’s High Court on Monday, as she gave evidence in Johnny Depp’s libel case against News Group Newspapers (NGN).
Depp, 57, whom Heard, 34, was married to from 2015-2017, is suing publishers NGN over an April 2018 article in The Sun, written by executive editor Dan Wooton, in which he was branded a “wife beater”.
During Heard’s witness statement she spoke at length about numerous alleged incidences of domestic abuse, including one in which, she claimed Depp told her: “I’m going to f***ing kill you and f*** your corpse.”
Heard claimed the alleged incident occurred after Depp had been using cocaine and drinking Jack Daniels.
Amber gave evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice on July 20, 2020 in London (Image: SplashNews.com)
The actress claimed Depp “had her by the hair and slapped me in the face”.
She said: “Over the course of the day, he kept attacking me – he hit me, pushed me, choked me and spat in my face.
“At some point I went back to the lower level because I wanted to try again to cook a meal and get things back to normal. He was still drinking booze from the bottle. He was so mad at me and I didn’t know why. His eyes were black. I told him to put it down and to stop. He became extremely mad, screaming at me ‘f*** you, I f***ing hate you’. He offered me the bottle, ‘you want it?’ and ‘what are you going to do?’. He was threatening me with the bottle of liquor. He provoked me to take it. I said ‘yeah’, and I took it and smashed it on the ground.”
She continued: “This set him off. He picked up another bottle and threw it at the wall right next to me.”
Heard claimed that later on in the day Depp ripped her dressing gown open and pinned her up against the fridge.
She alleged: “He had me up against the fridge and he grabbed the front of my gown and ripped it open, so at some point I was bare chested. I don’t remember what he was saying, but he was mocking me, touching my breasts. He ripped off the rest of the gown so I was naked. He grabbed me by my breasts and kept shoving me up against the fridge.”
Heard continued: “At some point he pulled me around by my neck and pushed me down against the bar, I was against the bar, naked, bent over backwards, my back against the marble. He was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn’t breathe. I was trying to tell him that I couldn’t breathe.
Heard claimed Depp said he would ‘f*** her corpse’ (Image: REUTERS)
“I remember thinking he was going to kill me in that moment.
“The floor was wet and I was slipping; I couldn’t get a purchase and I was kicking my feet trying to stand up, but nothing was catching. I was using my forearms to try to raise myself up and cutting myself on the broken glass on the counter.
“I remember pleading with Johnny saying he was hurting and cutting me and asked him to let me up. He ignored me, continuing to hit me with the back of one closed hand. He was screaming at me, over and over again, ‘you ruined my life, I hate you, I’m going to f***ing kill you and I’ll ‘f*** your corpse’. He said it so loud and over and over: ‘I am going to f***ing kill you.’ I really thought I might die.”
The High Court was shown an alleged text exchange between Paul Bettany and Johnny Depp (Image: Getty Images)
During the opening week of the trial, texts were shown to the court, which showed an alleged exchange between Depp and fellow actor and friend Paul Bettany, 49, in which Depp said: “I will f*** her burnt corpse.”
In the alleged exchange, which was shown to the court by NGN barrister Natasha Wass QC, Bettany claimed Amber was a “witch” and suggested they should burn her.
Depp replied: “Let’s drown her before burning her. I will f*** her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead.”
Depp has vehemently denied Heard’s allegations of abuse.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
