Amber Heard ends testimony asking Johnny Depp to ‘go away me alone’

By PTI

US: Amber Heard advised jurors Thursday {that a} harassment marketing campaign waged towards her by ex-husband Johnny Depp has left her humiliated and scared for her life from a number of demise threats, and stated she simply needs, ‘Johnny to depart me alone’. Heard was anticipated to be the ultimate witness within the six-week libel trial Depp introduced towards his ex-wife.

With cameras within the courtroom, tens of millions of individuals have adopted the trial, and curiosity appeared to realize momentum because the weeks went on and each Depp and Heard testified concerning the ugly particulars of their relationship.

Online and on the courthouse, Depp’s followers have overwhelmingly dominated the narrative, with groupies lining up in a single day to get one of many few spots within the courtroom and wave at Depp as he walks out and in. Heard has been booed by spectators on the road as she enters and leaves the courthouse.

“The harassment and the humiliation, the campaign against me that’s echoed every single day on social media, and now in front of cameras in the showroom, every single day I have to relive the trauma,” Heard stated as she fought again tears.

“Perhaps it is simple to neglect I’m a human being. Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as ‘a public determine representing home abuse.’ His attorneys say he was defamed by the article although it by no means talked about his title.

Heard stated she hopes the lawsuit will enable her to regain her voice, and stated she had the ‘proper as an American’ to publish an article that described her experiences and the way they relate to the nationwide debate over home violence.

“Johnny has taken enough of my voice,” she stated. “I have the right to tell my story.” Depp has denied he ever struck Heard, and says she was the abuser within the relationship. Heard has testified about greater than a dozen separate situations of bodily abuse she says she suffered at Depp’s arms.

The remaining witness Thursday morning for Depp’s facet was a hand surgeon, Richard Gilbert, who stated he thinks the harm that occurred to Depp’s center finger might have occurred as Depp describes it. The tip of the finger was severed throughout a battle the couple had in Australia. Depp says it occurred when Heard threw a big vodka bottle at him.

Heard says Depp did it to himself in a drug-fuelled rage on an evening when he additionally sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.