Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are making headlines for all the negative reasons for quite some now. The former couple has made some serious allegations against each other. In the recent, Heard has accused Depp of abusing her both physically and verbally various time while they were in a relationship.
Amber Heard, who is fighting a legal battle at Britain’s high court in Depp’s libel trial against The Sun newspaper over an April 2018 article that labelled him a “wife beater”, on Monday denied accusation of her being a heavy drug taker. She also said that she was neither drinker nor controlling during their relationship.
“I was never violent towards him,” she said in court. “When I felt my life was threatened, I tried to defend myself.” She also mentioned that Depp “explicitly threatened to kill many times, expecially later in our r
However, Depp, who was at the court to hear Heard’s evidence, has strongly denied all the charges.
In her second testimony on Tuesday, Amber admitted that she had punched her ex-husband which was purely an act of self-defense.
Heard was questioned about an incident in March 2015 when she hit Depp during an argument at Los Angeles penthouse. She said that it was first time she stood up to him as she thought he was about to push her sister Whitney down the stairs.
“And the moment that happened I remembered information I had heard (that) he pushed a former girlfriend – I believe it was Kate Moss – down the stairs,” Heard told the court.
Heard was also accused of cheating Depp with Tesla chief Elon Musk. However, she denied having an affair with with Musk or anyone else for that matter while she was married.
Depp and Heard met on the sets of The Rum Diary in 2009, which was released two years later. The couple tied the knot in Los Angeles in February 2015. Heard filed for divorce the same year, and the divorce was finalized in 2017.