By Blessing Udeobasi
As the $50m defamation lawsuit continues, actress Amber Heard has claimed she feared her ex-husband, Johnny Depp hit her during their honeymoon and feared he would accidentally kill her.
Heard said this on Monday while testifying in the defamation case Depp brought against her where she tearfully told jurors that she believed she’d likely “not survive” if she had remained married to Mr Depp.
She also painted a picture of Depp as an abuser addicted to drugs and plagued with jealousy and self-harm.
“I was so scared that it was going to end really badly for me,” she said. “I really didn’t want to leave him. I loved him so much.”
“He attacked me while aboard the Orient Express train in Asia after our February 2015 wedding, striking and holding me by the neck while in our sleeper compartment.
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“He was squeezing my neck against the railway car for what felt like a very long time. I remember being scared that he wouldn’t mean to do it,” she said.
In another instance, Ms Heard described a “week of hell” after Depp allegedly became jealous because she was offered a role with James Franco. She claimed he punched her and threw her into furniture.
While Ms Heard said that the marriage was “at times, very loving”, it deteriorated over time to a point in which tension and violence became “almost normal”. They divorced in 2017, after two years.
She also claimed that Depp would frequently self-harm during their arguments.
“In fights he often would cut his arms or hold his knife to his chest or draw blood, superficially at first,” she said. “He also put cigarettes out on himself.”
