Falls
Church
(VA),
May
18
(AP)
Lawyers
for
Johnny
Depp
on
Tuesday
questioned
the
truthfulness
of
Amber
Heard's
accusation
that
Depp
sexually
assaulted
her
with
a
liquor
bottle.
Heard
was
cross-examined
for
most
of
the
day
after
her
testimony
in
Depp's
libel
suit
against
her.
Depp
is
suing
Heard
in
Virginia's
Fairfax
County
Circuit
Court
over
a
December
2018
op-ed
she
wrote
in
The
Washington
Post
describing
herself
as
“a
public
figure
representing
domestic
abuse.”
His
lawyers
say
he
was
defamed
by
the
article
even
though
it
never
mentioned
his
name.
The
trial
is
now
in
its
fifth
week.
Depp's
lawyer,
Camille
Vasquez,
questioned
Heard
about
a
variety
of
incidents
in
which
she
says
she
was
assaulted
by
Depp.
Questioning
was
particularly
intense
over
a
March
2015
fight
the
couple
had
in
Australia,
shortly
after
they
were
married,
while
Depp
was
shooting
a
fifth
film
in
the
“Pirates
of
the
Caribbean”
franchise.
It
was
during
that
fight
that
Heard
says
she
was
sexually
assaulted.
Depp,
on
the
other
hand,
says
he
was
the
victim,
and
that
he
lost
the
tip
of
his
middle
finger
when
Heard
threw
a
vodka
bottle
at
him.
Vasquez
questioned
why
Heard
never
sought
medical
attention,
even
though
she
said
her
feet
were
cut
by
broken
glass
and
she
was
bleeding
after
the
attack.
“You're
the
one
who
assaulted
someone
with
a
bottle
in
Australia,
isn't
that
right,
Ms.
Heard?”
Vasquez
asked.
“I
didn't
assault
Johnny
in
Australia.
I
didn't
assault
Johnny
ever,”
Heard
responded.
Vasquez
then
questioned
why
Heard
wrote
a
series
of
love
notes
to
Depp
in
the
months
after
she
said
she
was
assaulted.
Heard
has
said
she
believed
Depp
had
hit
rock
bottom
after
the
Australia
fight
and
was
committed
to
sobriety.
She
has
said
most
of
the
assaults
occurred
while
Depp
was
under
the
influence
of
drugs
or
alcohol.
“When
things
were
good,
they
were
really
good,”
she
said.
The
jury
also
saw
a
recording
of
a
deposition
Heard
gave
in
2016
in
connection
with
her
divorce
in
which
she
appeared
to
inadvertently
admit
that
she
had
tipped
off
the
celebrity
news
outlet
TMZ
to
aspects
of
her
initial
divorce
proceedings.
Heard
testified
to
the
jury
that
she
was
taken
aback
when
paparazzi
swarmed
her
courthouse
appearance
seeking
a
temporary
restraining
order
and
that
she
tried
to
avoid
publicity
as
much
as
possible.
During
the
2016
deposition,
though,
Heard
puts
hands
to
her
lips
as
though
she
mistakenly
blurted
something
out
after
she
said
she
wanted
Depp
to
learn
of
the
divorce
filing
“from
some
other
source
other
than
TMZ,
which
was
alerted
...”
“You
slipped
up
there,
didn't
you,
Ms.
Heard?”
Vasquez
asked.
“That's
not
what
I'm
talking
about,”
Heard
responded.
During
redirect
examination,
Heard,
said
she
“asked
my
team
to
file
in
the
most
discreet
way,
literally
to
put
it
under
a
stack
of
papers
and
file
it
at
the
end
of
the
day
so
it
kind
of
had
more
of
a
shot
of
being
missed
by
the
paparazzi
and
by
TMZ.”
The
redirect
questioning
of
Heard
lasted
only
a
few
minutes,
as
Depp's
lawyers
objected
to
nearly
every
question
that
Heard's
lawyer,
Elaine
Bredehoft,
tried
to
ask.
After
Heard's
testimony
concluded,
jurors
heard
recorded
testimony
from
a
mutual
friend
of
the
couple,
iO
Tillett
Wright,
who
said
Depp
confided
to
him
that
he
hated
sobriety.
“He
wanted
to
get
sober
for
Amber,”
Tillett
Wright
said.
“He
didn't
enjoy
being
sober.
It
wasn't
fun,
and
that
it
was
distressing
and
exhausting
and
very
hard
to
do.
He
really,
really
resented
having
to
be
sober.”
Tillett
Wright
said
Depp's
personality
turned
mean
and
paranoid
when
he
was
using
alcohol
or
drugs.
There
was
also
testimony
about
Heard's
$100
million
counterclaim
against
Depp.
She
says
she
was
defamed
by
Depp's
lawyer,
Adam
Waldman,
when
he
called
Heard's
accusations
a
hoax.
Heard
has
said
the
accusations
hurt
her
career,
but
Vasquez
pointed
to
a
series
of
negative
articles
about
Heard
that
preceded
Waldman's
comments.
The
jury
also
heard
an
audio
recording
of
a
verbal
fight
between
the
two
in
which
each
belittled
the
other's
acting
career.
Heard
laughed
mockingly
at
Depp's
career-making
role
in
the
'80s
television
show
“21
Jump
Street."
“Hey,
at
least
I
didn't
do,
like,
a
teeny
show
where
I'm
a
heartthrob.
God
that
would
be,
like,
embarrassing,”
Heard
said.
Depp
responded
with
dismissive
commentary
about
Heard's
biggest
film
role
to
date,
shouting
“Aquaman!”
in
a
mocking
way
to
denigrate
the
superhero
film.
And
Heard
took
offense
when
Vasquez
suggested
that
Heard
only
got
the
role
in
“Aquaman”
with
Depp's
help.
“Excuse
me?”
Heard
said.
“No,
Ms.
Vasquez,
I
got
myself
that
role
by
auditioning.”