Johnny Depp’s legal claims that he had won a video proving that Amber Heard had a violent series with his own sister.
On Thursday, Heard’s sister Whitney Henriquez testified in Depp’s defamation lawsuit opposed to News Group Newspapers (NGN), the parent company of British media outlet The Sun, which in a 2018 article called the actor a “drummer wife.” Last week, Depp testified and called witnesses to say otherwise.
Henríquez told the London court that Heard had never been physical to her, according to the Guardian; However, Depp’s team told the court friday that the new photographs received show otherwise. His lawyer said he won the video on an unnamed Thursday night by email.
“We were contacted to inform us that Amber Heard had a history of violence against others and this video of her sister Whitney was taken shortly after Amber Heard attacked her, and Whitney was filmed with others commenting the bruises on her face and,” Depp’s attorney David Sherborne told the court, according to the media.
Earlier this week, Heard, 34, told the court that he first punched Depp in March 2015 at his sister. When asked if he had hit the Pirates of the Caribbean actor “with his fist clenched,” Heard said he hit him after he hit her and her sister.
“I was about to push her down the stairs and the moment before that happened, I remembered the reports I had heard that she had driven an old friend, I think it was Kate Moss, down the stairs,” actress Aquaman said. “… I’ll never do this incident. It was the first time after all those years.”
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Sherborne told the court that Heard’s sister had “adapted” her reports to convince the court that Heard had no history of violence and that the new video showed that she was “lying.” The video allegedly shows Henriquez bruising after an incident with Heard.
“In the context of the attack – what I’ll call the ‘ladder incident’ – and the evidence we’re telling of Amber Heard’s attack on Mr. Depp, Whitney, as you’ll recall, protested that it was just self-defense and that’s just the physical attack admits amber,” Sherbourne said.
Heard, 34, alleged in the past that Depp had been violent in his 15-month marriage, an affirmation he denied, saying he had been the victim of domestic violence in their relationship.
Heard’s lawyer, Eric George, denied the allegations against the actress, saying in a received through PEOPLE: “The evidence in this case is clear: Johnny Depp has continually beaten Amber Heard. Increasingly desperate attempts through Mr. Depp and his facilitators to revive his career by filing unsubstantiated lawsuits against so many others who were once close to him, his former lawyers, former executives and his ex-wife, are not fooling anyone.
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Heard and Depp married in 2015. In May 2016, she implemented a domestic violence ban, accusing her of mistreating her. Depp denied the allegations and the former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016. She donated her $7 million divorce settlement to a charity. Both actors have signed NOA that prevent them from publicly discussing their relationship.
Depp sued her for defamation in the United States after writing an editorial for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described that she was an alleged victim of domestic violence. Although he never spoke of Depp’s name, the actor’s trial called his accusations “cheating.”
Heard’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, suggested to the court last fall that she dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the column failed to address accusations of opposing Heard to Depp, but in March a Virginia ruling refused to dismiss the lawsuit.
If you are a victim of domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org. All calls are confidential and free of fees. The hotline will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in more than 170 languages.