Apr
14
2022
On day 3 of the defamation case, Kate James, the former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp, but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary (when she said this in court, Amber Heard smiled). She testified, Amber descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp’s libel suit against Heard. After a physically violent fight on a plane, Amber did not appear traumatized but enjoyes herself with friends by the pool drinking cocktails.
Johnny, on the other hand, was the peaceful one, she said, while Heard was frequently intoxicated and verbally abusive, including to her own mother and sister. “Her poor sister was treated like a dog that you kicked, basically,” James said.
Laurel Anderson, a psychologist who counseled the couple, testified, that they were mutually abusive and that Johnny didn’t have a voice in their counseling sessions. Amber would also rather be in a fight with Johnny than see him leave, and “would strike him to keep him there,” Anderson said. “And she slapped him because he was being incoherent and talking about being with another woman,” Anderson said. She noted that Depp’s mother was in the hospital at the time.
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