WASHINGTON, May 16 — Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard returns to the witness stand on Monday as the celebrity couple’s bitter defamation trial resumes in a Virginia courtroom after a one-week hiatus.
The first four weeks of the multi-million dollar defamation case being heard by a seven-person jury in Fairfax, near Washington, have exposed the couple’s volatile relationship in excruciating detail. During a particularly heated argument between the couple in Australia, an “irate” Heard severed the tip of one of his fingers by throwing a vodka bottle at him, Depp said.
He then used blood from his severed finger to write messages on walls and mirrors throughout the home where the couple had been staying during filming of the fifth instalment of theThe 58-year-old Depp brought the suit against Heard over an op-ed she wrote forin December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”, did not name Depp in the op-ed, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking US$50 million in damages.