Amber Heard Details Escalation Of Alleged Physical Abuse By Johnny Depp In Testimony; “Worst Thing That Could Happen To Me Happened,” Actress Says, As ‘Pirates’ Star Continues To Avoid Eye Contact In Court

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UPDATE, 12:45 PM: “I will never forget it, it changed my life,” Amber Heard told a Virginia courtroom today of the first time Johnny Depp allegedly hit her in the winter of 2011.“I laughed, I thought he was joking and he slapped me across the face,” the often tearful actress said of the reaction from her then boyfriend as she inquired about a tattoo he had as the two were drinking together. “I laughed , because I didn’t know what else to do.”According to Heard, the pounding it back Depp said, “You think it’s funny, bitch?”Just like in Heard’s earlier testimony on Wednesday, the former Pirates of the Caribbean star barely looked at his frequently crying ex-wife as she spoke about their life together.“He slapped me again, it was clear it wasn’t a joke,” the Aquaman star added of the shock she felt. “I didn’t move or freak out ..I just stared at him.

And he slaps me one more time, hard.”“I’m all of a sudden realizing that the worst thing that could happen to me happened,” Heard said in her testimony as the second witness for the defense in the $50 million defamation case Depp launched against his ex-wife in 2019 in reaction to a late 2018 Washington Post op-ed she penned on being a survivor of domestic violence. “I didn’t want to leave him,” she admitted thinking a decade ago as she laid on the “dirty” carpet at Depp’s residence.“I know you can’t come back from that, I’m not dumb,” the suited actress said under questioning Wednesday from her own lawyer.Remarking on the “velvety love” the duo had when things were good, Heard earlier pulled back the curtain on the couple’s relationship turning sour in and around 2012 with an allegedly heavily drinking Depp calling her a “whore,” denigrating her fashion choices and throwing