As the days go by, this surely isn’t getting any easier on everyone that is involved. The legal drama between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard continues as lawyers for the actor have tried to discredit a claim by the actress that he threw a mobile telephone at her in May 2016 and hit her in the face. Here’s what you need to know.
According to reports, the testimony, by Isaac Baruch, a longtime friend of Johnny Depp, came on the second day of the US defamation case filed by the Pirates of the Caribbean star against Heard. The proceedings are taking place in the state of Virginia.
Johnny Depp’s Childhood Friend, Isaac Baruch, Gives Evidence In Defamation Case
Depp filed the suit after Heard, 35, wrote a column for the Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The actress never named Depp, whom she met in 2009 on the set of the film The Rum Diary, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages.
Heard, who was married to Depp from 2015 to 2017, countersued, asking for $100 million and claiming she suffered “rampant physical violence and abuse” at his hands. Heard has alleged that Depp hit her in the face with a mobile phone on the evening of 21 May, 2016, during an argument.
Heard asked for a divorce two days later and sought a restraining order against Depp on 25 May, appearing in a Los Angeles court with a mark on her face. Baruch, who lived in the same building as Depp and Heard, testified that he saw her in the corridor a day after the alleged phone-throwing incident.
“She goes, ‘Yeah, he threw a phone at me and hit me’,” Baruch said, adding that he inspected her face.
“I’m looking at her forehead, I’m looking at the side of her eye, I’m looking at her cheek, I’m looking at her chin, I’m looking at the other side of the face, I’m looking at the whole thing and I don’t see anything,” he said. “I don’t see a cut, a bruise, swelling, redness.”
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