Amber Heard sparred with Johnny Depp’s lawyer as cross-examination acquired underway on Monday afternoon. The 36-year-old actress appeared particularly bothered when the subject of her $7 million divorce settlement was introduced up, which was by no means donated in full to charity as promised. Heard was additionally grilled about not looking for medical therapy after Depp’s quite a few alleged assaults.
Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, kicked issues off by asking Heard: “Mr. Depp hasn’t checked out you as soon as this whole trial, has he?”
“Not that I’ve observed, no,” the Aquaman star replied.
“You’ve got checked out him although many occasions, have not you?” Vasquez mentioned.
“Sure I’ve,” Heard responded.
” precisely why Mr. Depp will not look again at you, do not you?” Vasquez requested. “He promised you’d by no means see his eyes once more, is not that true?”
In July 2016, two months after Heard filed for a brief restraining order, she organized to fulfill with Depp in San Francisco. The pair’s former agent testified at trial it was as a result of the actress wished to get again along with Depp, one thing she denied earlier on Monday. (“I wished to reduce the animosity, I wished to reconcile in that means. I did not wish to get again along with him.”)
An audio recording from the assembly was performed to the jury through which Depp tells Heard from then on, “We wont must see one another once more. … You’ll not see my eyes once more.”
Vasquez mentioned to Heard, “He saved that promise, hasn’t he?”
“So far as I do know, he can’t have a look at me,” Heard replied.
“He will not have a look at you, proper Ms. Heard?” Vasquez mentioned.
“He cannot,” Heard shot again.
The strain did not ease from there. Heard was proven images from a number of occasions from 2014 to 2015 through which she seems unhurt, hours or days after alleged violent incidents with Depp.
After the 2014 Met Gala, Heard testified that Depp hit her so arduous she thought he broke her nostril. Heard did not search medical therapy and went to Spike TV’s Don Rickles: One Evening Solely occasion the next evening with Depp.
When requested if she sought medical therapy after what she alleges was a three-day hostage state of affairs in Australia in March 2015, Heard replied: “I didn’t search medical therapy after Australia, no.”
“Not for the rape?” Vasquez requested.
Heard, who flinched on the phrase, replied, “No I did not inform anybody.” The actress testified earlier this month that Depp penetrated her with a liquor bottle and that she bled afterwards.
Depp agreed to pay Heard $7 million once they settled their divorce in 2016. The cash got here in installments however was absolutely paid in February 2018. The courtroom was proven a clip of Heard on a chat present in October 2018 saying she donated all the settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Kids’s Hospital of Los Angeles as a result of she “wished nothing” from her ex-husband.
“I’ve not been in a position to fulfill these obligations but,” Heard admitted underneath oath.
Earlier on Monday, Heard mentioned throughout direct examination she was unable to satisfy her pledge of $3.5 million to every charity “as a result of Johnny sued me for $50 million.” Nevertheless, Vasquez famous that Heard had the total settlement for 13 months earlier than she was sued by Depp over her 2018 op-ed within the Washington Submit. Vasquez advised that Heard “wished Mr. Depp’s cash” and that she solely vowed to donate for good press.
“You wished to be seen … as a noble sufferer of home violence,” Vasquez mentioned.
Heard fired again, “I’ve by no means, by no means wished to be seen as a sufferer. Nor have I ever known as myself one.”
Vasquez mentioned Heard lied underneath oath within the U.Ok. trial as she testified “the whole lot of my divorce settlement was donated to charity.” This prompted a forwards and backwards in regards to the distinction between the phrases “pledge” and “donation” as Heard mentioned she pledged the cash to charity, which she nonetheless intends to satisfy.
“I exploit ‘pledge’ and ‘donation’ synonymously,” Heard testified.
“I do not,” Vasquez replied, earlier than noting how “many of the cash” that has been donated to ACLU and CHLA in Heard’s title will not be from the actress, however reasonably Elon Musk.
“I consider Elon made a donation in my honor in one of many years,” Heard confirmed, sustaining the Tesla CEO’s contribution did “not depend in direction of my pledge.”
Earlier on Monday, Heard testified that Musk donated $500,000 to every charity “in my honor.”
“Elon, who was my boyfriend on the time, had his personal charitable contributions that he made,” she advised the courtroom. Heard related with Musk on the 2016 Met Gala weeks earlier than submitting for divorce.
“I did not acknowledge [Elon] till we began speaking [on the red carpet] and he jogged my memory we had met as soon as earlier than,” she advised the courtroom.
Heard “ended up going on my own” to the Met Gala as she and Depp weren’t on talking phrases from their battle on her thirtieth birthday in April 2016.
“I sat subsequent to an empty place setting for Johnny that they cleared as quickly as we realized he successfully stood me up on the purple carpet,” Heard declared.
As for Musk, the actress mentioned the entrepreneur “appeared like an actual gentleman.”
“He was very nice. He sat at a close-by desk and we acquired to talking that evening and finally turned buddies,” she added.
Heard’s crew issued the next assertion forward of cross-examination:
There’s an outdated saying by trial attorneys: when the info are in your facet, argue the info. When the info usually are not in your facet, pound away on the rostrum. In the present day, we count on Depp’s attorneys will as an alternative pound away on the sufferer. We concern will probably be equal elements shameful and determined. And, the overwhelming proof — the reality — will not be on Depp’s facet.
The one factor we suspect Depp’s attorneys will keep away from is the central challenge of this trial: does Amber or any lady have the First Modification Proper of Freedom of Speech.
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