Amber Heard Describes Abuse, Toxic Marriage and ‘Cavity Search’ for Cocaine by Johnny Depp

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Amber Heard broke down on the witness stand Wednesday as she described alleged physical and emotional abuse during her marriage to ex-husband Johnny Depp.“I am here because my ex-husband is suing me for an op-ed that I wrote,” Heard told the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom. “This is the most painful and difficult thing I have ever gone through.”Heard then said Depp hit her numerous times.

She testified it first happened while he was drinking and had a jar of cocaine on the table. She said the actor “slapped” her across the face for laughing at one of his tattoos, then called her a “b***h” and slapped her again.The actress said their relationship began after filming “The Rum Diary.” Before that, she’d only had small roles in “Zombieland,” “Pineapple Express,” and “Friday Night Lights.”Heard said the couple bonded over “books, music and poetry.” While filming a scene for “The Rum Diary,” Heard said Depp “grabbed my face and pulled me into him and really kissed me” using his tongue.

Although the kiss was scripted, Heard said “there’s certain things that you do to just maintain a certain line and it just felt like those lines were blurred.” At the time, both Depp and Heard were in relationships with other people but became single shortly after.During the press tour for “Rum Diary” she said they “fell in love.” Depp showered Heard with expensive gifts and the two spent the night together in Heard’s London hotel room. “For the rest of the press tour we were, it was on,” said Heard.She said Depp made her feel like “the most beautiful person in the whole world.