Content material caution: This tale discusses sexual attack and abuse.
Johnny Depp is denying the sexual attack allegations his ex-wife Amber Heard‘s attorney made in opposition to him at the first day of his $50 million defamation trial.
The previous couple is squaring off within the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia after Depp sued Heard over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Submit about surviving home violence. Whilst the 35-year-old by no means discussed Depp through identify within the article—entitled “Amber Heard: I spoke up in opposition to sexual violence—and confronted our tradition’s wrath. That has to switch“—her legal professional Ben Rottenborn now claims it was once Depp who was once the alleged abuser.
“Tragically, it is true,” Rottenborn advised the court in Virginia in April 11 all over his opening arguments. “Amber did endure sexual violence by the hands of Depp.”
He additionally stated the actress suffered home abuse through Depp that “took many bureaucracy,” together with bodily, emotional, verbal and mental abuse.
“You’ll listen in probably the most graphic and frightening phrases concerning the violence that she suffered,” Rottenborn stated about Heard’s upcoming testimony. “You can listen that directly from her. She’s going to get at the stand and she is going to inform you that. It took place.”
