Johnny Depp wanted Amber Heard “barefoot and pregnant, and at home,” his acting coach told the London superior court as he described his growing suspicions that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor was beating his wife.
Kristina Sexton, Heard’s friend and later interim coach, said she had not seen Depp “hit, kick or throw anything” at Heard, but was aware of the “volatility” of their relationship and had “heard some serious fights” While waiting, he begins his training sessions.
Heard told him that Depp wanted her “barefoot and pregnant, and at home,” he said, and that Depp didn’t like the job his wife was auditioning for, especially any role “that was overtly sexual,” that he called “bitch parts”. , She claimed.
Hext became a “nervous mess” at the auditions because he feared Depp’s reaction, Sexton said.
At an audition in April 2016, Heard was eager to reapply her makeup, she added. “It made me think she was covering a black eye or some kind of bruise, and I asked her directly: ‘Did she hit you?'”
Heard said he didn’t want to talk about it, Sexton said. She had asked if Heard “felt safe” and if there was “something he could do.”
She added: “But after pressing her about it, she admitted that he had hit her. She admitted to me, ‘Yes, he pushes me and he pushes me, he has done some things.’ “
Depp, 57, is suing Sun editor News Group Newspapers and executive editor Dan Wootton for an article calling him a “handcuff puncher” and referring to “overwhelming evidence” that he had attacked Heard. . Depp denies that he beat 34-year-old Heard, who has provided details of 14 occasions during their relationship when he claims he assaulted her.
Eleanor Laws QC, for Depp, told Sexton that Heard did not tell him of any allegations of physical violence until after he announced it to the world in May 2016. Sexton replied that he knew about the emotional issues before, but that he heard about the physical . incidents a few days before they were made public.
Laws added: “I am going to suggest to you that you have been extremely interested in supporting Miss Heard to remain in your favor.” Sexton replied, “Absolutely not. I haven’t worked with her in years.
Another close friend of Heard’s told the court that she had witnessed the aftermath of Depp’s alleged physical attacks on his wife.
Raquel Pennington claimed that she had seen Heard’s forearms “scratched and bloody, from the wrists to the elbows”, after the couple returned from Australia. In Los Angeles, she claimed she saw Heard’s head “bloody where a lock of hair had been pulled out” and that her nose was swollen and her lip was bleeding.
Pennington said he called a private nurse and took pictures on his phone. The next day, Heard appeared on the television show James Corden, with her stylist and makeup assistants “in damage control mode,” she said in her witness statement.
Laws asked, “At no point did you see Mr. Depp hit or beat Amber Heard, did you?” She replied, “I didn’t see him hit her or hit her.”
The laws put it: “You have lied and lied again on behalf of your friend, Miss Heard, regarding the injuries you have seen or claimed to have seen.” Pennington replied, “Absolutely not.”
From the photographs she took, Laws asked: “You were cataloging things for her that did not happen. That’s right, isn’t it?
“That is not right,” said Pennington.
Previously, Heard’s sister, Whitney Henríquez, denied having been beaten by her after a confidential source of hers allegedly showed injuries to her friends on a 2006 television reality show, emailed video footage to Depp’s legal team. .
Henríquez is in trouble with a woman who comments: “I can’t believe that Amber hit you in the butt”, and another comments: “He really hit you in the butt”. Another seemed to inspect Henríquez’s cheek and arm, and Henríquez said he was not going to talk about it.
Heard has claimed that she was never violent towards Depp, and only hit him once in defense of her sister during a fight on the stairs in her Los Angeles penthouse.
David Sherborne, for Depp, claimed that the video showed that Henríquez had lied to the court when he denied that Heard had beaten her or that she was “scared” of her sister.
Henríquez told the superior court that the video only referred to “a verbal discussion” between her and her sister, not a “physical fight.”
Denying having lied to the court to support his sister’s alleged domestic violence case, Henríquez said: “I am here because you were a victim of domestic violence, and for no other reason. I am here to tell the truth.
Sherborne said the video had been e-mailed Thursday night, hours after Henríquez told the court that her sister had never attacked her.
He said Henriquez’s reliability was “critical,” since the “staircase incident,” in which Heard’s sister claimed to have witnessed Depp hitting and beating Heard, was the only occasion “where he was supposed to any other human being “witnessed Depp being violent towards Heard.
Sasha Wass QC of News Group Newspapers said the film was “an undated piece of footage in circumstances that appear to be some kind of reality TV show, which is impertinent, certainly not serious.”
She said, “This is a joyous exchange, there is no evidence of any injury and it will take matters up … no more.”
The case continues.
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