‘He called me a slut’ – Tearful Amber Heard tells court how Johnny Depp allegedly kicked her back on his private jet after accusing her of affair with actor James Franco (video)

Actress, Amber Heard has testified that ex-husband, Johnny Depp ‘hated’ actor James Franco and accused her of having an affair with him. 

A tearful looking Heard, 36, took to the stand Thursday, May 5 for her second day of testimony where she described a fight she and Depp had on an airplane in May 2014 alleging Depp kicked her in the back. 

 

‘He was mad at me for taking the job with James Franco,’ Heard said. ‘He hated, hated James Franco and he was already accusing me of kind of secretly having a thing with him in my past because we had done Pineapple Express together.’ 

 

Heard described the airplane incident, which Depp had testified about before, admitting that he had been drunk and taken drugs. Heard said that Depp was upset with her for not telling him about romantic scenes that she had with Franco. 

 

‘He called me a go-getter, he called me a slut – this is happening with security and his assistants on the plane,’ she said. ‘I slowly get up and he starts throwing things at me. Ice cubes, utensils. He’s calling me an embarrassment, what an embarrassment I am. It felt like there was a blackness in his eyes, it didn’t even feel like him.

‘I feel this boot in my back. He just kicked me in the back. I fell to the floor and felt like I was looking at the floor of the plane for a long time. No one said anything. You could hear a pin drop. You could feel the tension but no-one did anything.’

She said Depp continued to drink and ‘started howling like an animal’ before passing out in the airplane bathroom with the door locked.  

 

‘I hit record on my phone. I knew Johnny would not remember what he’d done.’

Heard testified that she and Depp briefly went to couples counselling together but Depp stormed out.

 ‘I don’t know how many minutes went on before he stormed out, knocked something off the table and rolled a joint in the toilet before storming out the door’

 

Under questioning by defence lawyers, Heard said Depp assaulted her ‘several times,’ usually when he was drinking or using drugs. 

Heard said she began taking photos to ‘say look this is happening.’ 

‘I understood enough about addiction to know you have to hit rock bottom, have some consequence to get better,’ she said. 

‘At the time I was already sensitive, I’d been in the relationship for over a year. I’d already noticed there was this pattern of behavior changes that would make my life significantly more complicated or peaceful or difficult or wonderful dependent on what he was using.

‘I could tell what he was using because I’d have to look for clues. He’d pass out, get sick, lose control of himself. People would pick him up and clean it and fix it.

 

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Another picture shown by Heard’s lawyers showed Depp asleep in a chair in March 2013. 

 

‘This was after a several day bender, a binge of Johnny’s. 

‘He tried to burn a painting, it was accusing me of having affairs with a musician, my ex-partner. He was on a drug binge, no eating, little to no sleep and he would use cocaine and drink all day long. That would go for a period of time. Then a major blow out and he’d get sick, pass out, feel really awful and start a period of sobriety.’ 

 

She then revealed how her father and Depp used to do drugs.

‘We walk in together, we took some pictures and said a few hellos and then Johnny disappeared upstairs,’ Heard told the jury Thursday. ‘He disappeared upstairs almost the entire party.’

‘He came down at the end when we were leaving and he came down once because he was, at the time, sharing drugs with my dad,’ she added, alleging that her father was ‘addicted to the same thing Johnny was’.

She claimed they ran out of the substance and left the party because ‘they needed more of course’. She did not specify what drug the pair were allegedly using.

‘My dad actually left with Johnny’s security to get more drugs,’ she said. ‘They left…they came back with drugs and everything was ok, in terms of the withdrawal symptoms.’

‘Shortly after that I tried to get Johnny to come downstairs and he just snapped at me, just verbally told me to ‘shut the f**k up,” Heard recalled. 

 

Heard testified that she and Depp briefly went to couples counseling together but Depp stormed out. 

Heard said: ‘I don’t know how many minutes went on before he stormed out, knocked something off the table and rolled a joint in the toilet before storming out the door.’

After one fight Depp sent an apologetic text to Heard. In the message Depp said: ‘I always regret it when I jump. For my behavior I’m a f**king savage.’

The legal battle between Heard and Depp comes from a December 2018 opinion piece Heard wrote for the Washington Post.

The article never mentioned Depp by name, but his lawyer told jurors it was clear Heard was referencing him. The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2017 after less than two years of marriage.

Depp, once among Hollywood’s biggest stars, said Heard’s allegations cost him ‘everything.’ A new ‘Pirates’ movie was put on hold, and Depp was replaced in the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ film franchise, a ‘Harry Potter’ spinoff.

He is asking for $50million in defamation compensation, but Heard has countersued asking for $100m