Johnny Depp to testify in defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard

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Hollywood star alleges his career has been ruined by false accusations of domestic violence

Johnny Depp is expected to testify in a Virginia courtroom on Tuesday in the US defamation trial in which he accuses his ex-wife,Depp, 58, alleges Heard, 35, defamed him when she penned a December 2018 opinion piece in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse. He filed a $50m lawsuit against Heard in 2018.

The article never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp’s lawyer Benjamin Chew told jurors a week ago that it was clear Heard was referencing the Hollywood leading man. Attorneys for Heard have argued she told the truth and that her opinion was protected as free speech under the US constitution’s first amendment.

Witnesses called by Depp’s lawyers have included friends and a doctor and a nurse who said they treated him for substance abuse. The witnesses testified that they were aware of arguments between the couple but had not witnessed physical abuse by Depp toward Heard.“Their arguments were a trigger for him emotionally,” Debbie Lloyd, who worked as a nurse for Depp when he was engaged to Heard, said in a videotaped 8 March deposition that was played for the jury on Monday.

When asked by a lawyer for Depp if she was aware that any of the arguments between Depp and Heard became physical, Lloyd replied: “No.”

 

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