The beginning of the trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp for defamation is leaving shocking statements in its first days. The actress accuses her ex-partner of having sexually assaulted her in extreme situations and the actor denies such claims.

The judicial confrontation has its origin in the complaint filed by Depp, 58, against his ex-wife, 35, for an opinion piece that she wrote in 2018 in The Washington Post referring to herself as a ” public figure victim of abuse. ” domestic ”. The actor’s legal team says the text falsely suggested that Depp physically and sexually abused her while they were married and that the allegations hampered her Hollywood career.

Now, Heard’s lawyers have explicitly accused Depp of sexual violence for the first time, alleging that his client suffered all kinds of blows and that the actor “sexually assaulted her with a bottle,” according to E! News and Mirror.

One of the tensest moments in front of the audience took place this week when the actress’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, claimed that Heard was held in 2015 in a house in Australia and abused for three days.

“He leaned her against the bar. She threw bottles at him. He dragged her across the floor with the broken glass. She Punch. He told her that he hated her. And then he penetrated her with a bottle, “said the lawyer.

Heard “loved the side of Johnny that we see in the movies, charismatic, charming, generous, he’s the man she fell in love with,” her attorney Elaine Bredehoft told jurors.

“But unfortunately the monster appeared and this monster appeared when he drank or took drugs,” he added, mentioning alcohol cocktails, medications, cocaine, ecstasy, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Depp had “an enormous rage” in him that transformed him into a “demon” and “it was during these episodes of rage that he verbally, psychologically, physically and sexually attacked” Heard, Bredehoft explained.

He recounted several scenes of violence, especially in March 2015 in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth episode of “Pirates of the Caribbean”.

Johnny Depp denies accusations

Depp’s lawyers and representatives immediately denied the alleged facts. “These fictitious accusations were not made at the beginning of Amber’s allegations in 2016 and only conveniently surfaced years later when she was sued for defamation because she claimed in her text that she was a victim of sexual violence.

Words are key in defamation lawsuits and, interestingly, this accusation came only after that. This follows the pattern of her elaborate and false claims, which have changed and evolved for the Hollywood-style shock that Amber has mastered and used within a serious social movement to achieve (referring to Me Too).” Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, told the jury.

“Heard never made that charge against Depp, this was never part of his 2016 abuse allegations. So what has changed? When he realized the seriousness of what he was claiming, he panicked and cited sexual assault,” Depp’s lawyer added, continuing: “In 58 years of his life, Depp has never been accused of violence by a single woman. and no one in Hollywood or the world had any reason to believe he was an abuser until Mrs. Heard publicly accused him.”

In addition, the actor’s legal representatives argued that it would have been Heard who “resorted to physical violence.” About this, they indicated: “she threw things at him, hit him and told him that he was a coward, that he was not man enough because he did not want to fight with her. She humiliated him, yelled at him, and tried to calm her down. This was constantly repeated. She tried to deal with it by running away like she had when she was a child, but it only infuriated her. She and her lawyers will tell you stories of horrible abuse. They are designed to be explosive.”

In another episode of the trial, Depp’s lawyers stated that the other party seeks to use his “real fight against drug use” against the actor. In this regard, the actress’s lawyer pointed out: “You will hear the testimonies of the therapists admitting that he is wrong but he is like a demon and sees his wife Amber as his mother and his sister, whom he hates. Amber decided to stay and try to solve the problem. She thought that she could fix it if she could cleanse herself of the consumption. She tried, she went to therapists and a marriage counselor.”

Among the first witnesses present at the trial was Christi Dabrowski, sister of Johnny Depp, who revealed that Heard disqualified her brother by calling him “fat and ugly”. And she said, “This is etched in my memory. One time I was in the office, I had a meeting with Dior who wanted to sit down with Johnny and talk about working together. Amber came in and asked if she was interrupting us, we told her no. Johnny told Amber that he had just had a meeting with Dior and that they were interested in him. Her reaction to that was disbelief and disgust. She said: ‘Dior? Why would Dior want to do business with you? They are class and style, and you don’t have that,’ recalled the actor’s sister. “I have heard the insults from him many times. She called him old, fat,” she added.

The trial is being held in the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia (United States) and will be televised on Court TV for the planned six weeks. Celebrities will pass the stand as witnesses, such as Elon Musk (Heard’s ex-partner), James Franco, Jason Momoa, or Paul Bettany.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met while filming The Rum Diary (2011) and married four years later. The couple split in 2016, after which Heard filed a domestic violence restraining order against Depp, accusing him of abusing her.