Amber Heard: 'I was afraid Johnny Depp was going to kill me'

Hollywood actor Amber Heard took to witness stand on 10th day of Libel Trial held in London’s High Court. Amber Heard presented a written witness statement to court, in which she accused her ex-husband Johnny Depp of physical and verbal abuse. In statement, she also ded that he h a very ‘intimidating’ as well as ‘controlling behaviour’. As she took to stand, she mentioned that re were instances in relationship where she thought that Johnny Depp would kill her, eir intentionally or by losing his calm. However, during cross-examination, Amber Heard stated that she lost her cool with Johnny Depp but ded that it was only in self-defense.

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard appear in court

According to news ncy AP, in first session of her testimony that is expected to last for three days, Amber Heard denied accusations that she was a heavy drug-taker and drinker as well as being controlling and abusive herself. She also described an incident in January 2015 in a hotel room in Tokyo over a prenuptial agreement between herself and Depp and suggested re was an argument about it.

“re was an argument in a hotel room in Tokyo that resulted in Johnny kneeling on my back and hitting me on back of he,” she said. In written testimony released as she took to witness box, Amber Heard said she worried Depp would kill her at various times during ir relationship that saw her enduring “punching, slapping, kicking, he-butting, and choking.”

She also said, “some incidents were so severe that I was afraid he was going to kill me, eir intentionally or just by losing control and going too far.”

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According to 34-year-old Heard, Depp “explicitly threatened to kill me many times, especially later in our relationship” and that he blamed his actions on “a self-created third party” that he referred to as “ monster.” Amber Heard stated that at beginning of relationship, Johnny Depp was extremely affectionate, warm as well as charming. However, in her statement, she ded that when Johnny Depp puts his affection on someone with all its ‘intensity and darkness’ it is t like anything a person has ever experienced. She elaborated that she used word 'dark' because Depp he has a ‘violent’ and a ‘dark’ way of speaking.

Amber Heard went on to say that Johnny Depp would talk about ir relationship being ‘de or alive’ and would tell her that only way out of relationship was through death. In her statement, Aquaman actor described her visit to Johnny Depp in Australia in March 2015, as a ‘three-day host situation’. She alleged that during those days re were acts of extreme psychological, physical, emotional as well as or forms of violence. She also ded she recalls incidents as being ‘worst thing that she h to go through’.

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Amber Heard ded that she was later left with cuts on her arms, se, and an injured lip. She said that during one of incidences, Johnny Depp pressed her neck so hard that she couldn’t brea. She went on to say that she recalls trying to tell him that she couldn’t brea and that she remembered thinking that he was going to kill her at that moment.

Johnny Depp is suing a publication and its executive editor over an article that called him a ‘wife-beater’. article also referred to have ‘evidence’ that Johnny Depp attacked Amber Heard. Johnny Depp denies hitting his n-wife, while Amber Heard, 34, has submitted details of 14 occasions during ir relationship when actor has assaulted her. paper has to prove that allegations that y me against actor are substantially true.

(With Inputs from AP)

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