Petition updateRemove Amber Heard from Aquaman 2Amber in the hot seat, day 2
Jeanne LarsonLivonia, LA, United States
Jul 21, 2020

Amber showed up wearing a cream colored blouse and fawn colored jacket, with her hair braided up over her head. She is again being questioned by Eleanor Laws QC, representing Johnny Depp.
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The last time he showed up late, it was because of a meeting he had about a new role, so it’s possible that today’s tardiness is related to that.

They picked up where they left off, about Johnny on a rampage the night Amber claimed that he threw a phone at her face, destroying everything he could, from Penthouse 3 where they lived, to the penthouse where Rocky Pennington (RP) kept her beads. She called him crazed and delusional.

There was a quick chat about what pronoun to use for iO Tillet Wright (iO). Amber explains that iO now prefers the female pronoun “she.”  Heard is shown CCTV footage of herself with concierge Cornelius Harrell in March 2016, and reluctantly admits that it’s her. Mr. Harrell has given statements for court that Amber had no marks on her face. Amber disagrees, naturally. Ms. Laws mentions all the other people who also said she didn’t have any marks on her. Were they all lying?

Next, Heard is asked about a series of tweets between herself and Elon Musk (EM), but insists that she didn’t have any affairs with anyone while she was with Johnny, not even EM. She wasn’t even in communication with him, she claiMs., until 2016. She says an earlier witness, Alejandro Romero, is wrong about seeing her with Musk at an earlier date.

There is a little back and forth now between Ms. Laws and the judge over whether talk of jealousy is relevant. Heard says in some ways "all jealousy is illogical.” The judge is not keen to get into philosophical conversations, and moves the subject on.

The court is now being shown CCTV footage which shows Heard in a lift with actor James Franco. Ms. Laws asks if it is indeed Franco, and Heard says yes. Heard says Franco was saying: "Oh my god, what happened to you?" when he saw her face after she went down to let him in. She says his words were "What the f***.” Ms. Laws asks if they were "trying to hide their faces" in the video, and Heard says no. Ms. Laws asks if it was "secretive talking.” Heard says it was "discreet talking.”

We now move onto other events around May 2016. Heard says a text she sent at the time saying she was fearful of Depp was correct, telling Ms. Laws: "That is true, I was petrified of the monster.” We also hear about part of Heard's statement, in which she says she went to her friends Rocky and Josh's apartment (which was in the same apartment block) to seek refuge from Depp following a big argument on 21 May 2016. In it, she says "I did not hear from Johnny any more.”

Ms. Laws reads out multiple texts sent by Heard to Depp's late head of security Jerry Judge on 24 May 2016, which seem to show her trying to get in contact with Depp. One reads, "Please call me as soon as you get this"; another "I'm desperately trying to reach Johnny, can you help?" and another "I love you precious.” Heard agrees she was trying to reach Depp.
Ms. Laws says this is not the truth, as she was in contact with Depp between 21 and 26 May. But Heard says she was referring to that night, and the incident, and saying she did not see Depp any more that night. Ms. Laws says this is not true.

We now see a letter written by Heard's lawyer to Depp's lawyer on 24 May 2016, asking for their separation to be kept out of the public eye. Ms. Laws asks Heard: "You didn't want publicity around this did you?" Heard agrees. Heard says her lawyer "told me I needed only the last couple of instances of violence, which had ironically been the last couple of times I saw Johnny.” The letter says there had been three instances of domestic violence in the last six months. When asked by Ms. Laws which instances these are, Heard says "there are honestly so many, I don't recall which ones they are.” Ms. Laws says: "Just days before this case started you remembered lots of new cases of alleged violence.” Ms. Heard says this is not true.

The judge explains to Heard that what Ms. Laws is getting at is that if there had been more instances of domestic violence, they would have been included in the letter. Heard says this is not so, and her lawyer said it was "a short application.” Ms. Laws counters: "You make things up as you go along.” That’s the second time in two days that Ms. Laws has used that statement. And IMHO, she was right both times.

On the 23 May, Heard filed for divorce. Ms. Laws says several people - Depp's artist friend Isaac Baruch and concierge manager Trinity Esparza - saw Heard on this day and both say Heard had no injuries. Heard says she doesn't recall seeing Ms. Esparza, but she does vaguely recall seeing Mr Baruch.

The following day, 24 May, Ms. Laws says Amber did see housekeeper Hilda Vargas. She also says she disputes Ms. Vargas's claim that she wasn't wearing make-up.

We also discuss stylist Samantha McMillan, who also said she saw Heard without make up, and saw no injuries. Heard disagrees and says: "She has only seen me at photo shoots.” She says she only ever saw her with make up on. Heard says she would put make up on first thing in the day, and that as she is often photographed, this was how she would always appear.
Ms. Laws asks if that meant Ms. McMillan always arrived late to shoots. Ms. Laws says it is "inconceivable" Ms. McMillan would not have seen Heard without make up at some point.
Heard says this is not so.


Ms. Laws says the letter from Heard's lawyer to Depp's was a form of "blackmail.” You know, the one where she demanded everything from the apartment and his car to spousal support, right down to Johnny paying for Amber’s laundry. Heard says this is not so, and that she wanted to let him know "this could be done amicably.”
Heard says she was not afraid to talk to Depp on the phone, but was afraid of him. Ms. Laws says this is not true, and that Heard was not afraid of Depp, she was simply wanting it to seem like she was.

The court is now being shown more CCTV footage - it is black and white with no sound - and shows Heard in the lift with her sister and Rocky Pennington. They are heading out of the apartment. Ms. Laws says it shows Herd - who is on the far left - had no bruise on her cheek. In similar footage, as the three women return home that night, we can again see Heard standing by the lift doors. Heard says it was at around 10 or 11pm. Ms. Laws now moves on to a few hours later, in the early hours of the same night. Heard says "my memory is not clear" on events on that night. Ms. Laws says she would remember if she called her lawyer first that night. Talking again about the letter between lawyers, which mentions three alleged domestic violence incidents, Heard says: "I was trying to protect Johnny. I wasn't ready to reveal everything I'd been trying to hide for four-and-a-half years.”

Heard is discussing texts she sent to Depp around the time she filed for divorce. She says: "I wanted him to understand I loved him, and it didn't need to be any more acrimonious than it already was.  I just wanted privacy.” She goes on: "As naive as it sounds, at the time, just a few days of privacy seemed like an enormous thing to me.” One text from Heard says: "I thought you'd filed.” Heard confirMs. this meant she thought Depp had or was going to file for divorce.

Another lift clip is shown to the court, this time in color and filmed on the 23 May 2016. Heard is in the lift with Rocky and interior designer Laura Divenere. Ms. Laws says they were all up close in the lift. Now a second clip of the lobby is being played, showing Heard in the lobby taking to Ms. Esparza. Again, they are talking over the desk and seem very close to one another. "You had no injury did you?" Ms. Laws asks. She goes on, "And it's wrong to say you rarely communicated with the staff.”
Heard answers: "Ms. Laws, I lived in that flat a long time and I talked to them on occasions.” She says she did not “often” talk with them.

Ms. Laws references a clip where she says Heard and her sister Whitney "acted out some sort of punching scene.”
Heard says this is not true. We are not shown any clip of this.

Ms. Laws asks if Heard saw Isaac Baruch after she had filed for a restraining order. She asks: "Did you see him afterwards, and ask him out to dinner?"
Heard answers: "I did see him, but I didn't ask him out to dinner, I asked him if he wanted something I had cooked. He liked my cooking.”

We now move on to a telephone call between Depp and Heard. Heard says she believes this call is "one Johnny asked me if I was recording, and I said no, and he recorded it." Ms. Laws says: "Let's be clear, this is a recording you have provided yourself. So you know about this call.” In this phone call, reference is made to a "secret fight club.” Ms. Laws says that when she asked Heard if she knew which transcript they were discussing, and mentioned "secret fight club" she denied knowledge of it. Heard denies this, and says it's because Ms. Laws "mis-spoke.” Ms. Laws says Heard has made the point "four times" that she didn't know which transcript Ms. Laws was talking about, and she is now moving on. Ms. Laws asks: "Are you unhappy that you recorded this conversation?.” Heard says no, she is unhappy that Depp told her he wasn't recording the conversation, and then she found out he was. She says they often recorded conversations between theMs.elves. Ms. Laws says Heard received "bad publicity after she filed" and Heard was "angry about this.” Heard says: "I was angry, but mostly heartbroken. My marriage had ended, it was a really hard time.” Ms. Laws says during the recorded phone conversation violence from the past is discussed. Ms. Laws reads out an extract from the transcript in which Depp says "I had a jar of mineral spray thrown at my f***ing nose.” It also mentions him losing the tip of his finger and Heard allegedly being violent towards him. Ms. Laws puts it to Heard that she had been violent to Depp, and she didn't deny it in the call.
Heard says: "I wasn't in a place to deny or agree to it. I was trying to point out to him the reality of the system and how nasty, and violent this whole thing had been.” She goes on: "Johnny surrounded hiMs.elf with people who wouldn't disagree with him.” She says he was "almost never in contact with outside world.” Heard says Depp "severed his own finger.” She says Depp's "perception of our relationship was so skewed" he didn't realise how bad things were. Heard says: "He was twice my size and beat me up for years.” She says "it's preposterous" Depp says he was the victim of violence.
IMHO, what’s preposterous is Heard saying that Johnny is twice her size. She stands nearly as tall as him, and is perfectly capable of swinging a fist.

Like yesterday, Amber’s making good use of her water bottle, sipping from it liberally.

We are now talking about the night of Heard's 30th birthday party on 21 May 2016. Ms. Laws asks if when Depp arrived he was "coherent, sociable, logical and you were affectionate towards one another.”
Heard says, "Yes, but he was also under the influence and high.” Ms. Laws says Heard is the only one alleging that, and Heard says that's not true.

We hear that Depp had received "monumental news" about his finances that evening, before arriving at the birthday meal. During Depp's evidence last week he told the court he lost $650m when former business managers "stole" his money.

Ms. Laws reads out texts from Depp to Heard, which seem to show Depp apologising for being late. There is a little confusion over the date of these texts, and Heard says she thinks they might be from the day before the birthday party. Confusingly, the texts are actually dated the 22nd May, which would make them the day after.
Heard says she thinks they are from before the party, as they mention "fittings for the Met Gala.” She has to repeat "Met Gala" for the judge, who doesn't seem too familiar with the event.

Ms. Laws says Heard knew Depp had an important meeting with his accountant, and Heard says is aware that he had the meeting. Ms. Laws says after the party Heard "went on and on" at Depp over being late. Heard says she was "upset he was late for my birthday.”
Heard says he had scheduled his meeting just half an hour before her celebratory meal, and was still late. Ms. Laws asks whether Heard "punched Depp in the face" on that night. Heard replied "Absolutely not.”
Ms. Laws says Depp called his security guard Sean Bett to come and get him.
Heard says, "Johnny didn't drive, he was driven. It was normal for him to call someone to drive him after he would beat-up on me.”
We hear a text exchange in which Depp says Heard "hay-makered me.” This US phrase means to punch wildly. Ms. Laws says Heard did not dispute this in the texts.

The following day Heard's friend Rocky came to her flat, and Ms. Laws says Heard did not tell her Depp had hit her. Heard says this is not true, and she had texted Rocky the night before to tell her there had been an incident. "When she [Rocky] walked into the room it was covered in glass from things Johnny had thrown at me. Johnny was fond of glass bottles.” Heard says Rocky saw all the damage. That day Heard, her sister and a group of friends headed out to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Heard is asked if she was excited about going to Coachella.
Heard answers: "I couldn't be excited, my husband had beaten me up on my 30th birthday.”
Ms. Laws asks: "And then you excreted on the bed?"
Heard says she did not, and "it's absolutely disgusting.”
Ms. Laws asks if it was one of Heard's friends who had messed on the bed, and Heard says no, it's "unimaginable to me.”
Heard says Yorkshire Terrier Boo had had a problem with messing herself "since the weed.” She explains that when Boo was a puppy she ate a bag of Depp's marijuana, and had had issues since then.
Heard is asked if cleaner Hilda Vargas regularly cleaned up after the dogs (Pistol and Boo), and Heard says occasionally.
Heard says she would usually clean up excrement in the bed as she thought it was unfair for the cleaner to have to deal with it. Heard says Boo would often cuddle with Johnny, and mess herself on him or the bed. She says she heard Ms. Vargas giving evidence last week. In that, we heard that Ms. Vargas believed the excrement to be human rather than animal. "I cannot imagine what kind of human being would do that for a prank or joke" Heard tells the court. She says she was not there though, and had headed to Coachella by this time. Heard says she does not recall if she took the dogs with her or not.

We are now moving on to what Ms. Laws calls the "bathroom incident.” Heard says there were many incidents involving the bathroom, and involving doors, so asks for more clarity on which incident this was. The court is about to be played some audio, which we are told is undated. We can hear Depp talking in this, but his voice is very muted. He seeMs. to be apologising for closing the door into Heard's toes. He says: "I didn't mean to do that.” We can now hear Heard, who is saying she did not mean to push the door into Depp, but reacted to the door hitting her toes. She says "It was not my intention.” We can hear Heard saying "I'm so sorry. I can remember hitting you as a response. And I'm really sorry about hitting you in the head with the door.” She goes on, "I just reacted and I'm sorry, it's below me."
Ms. Laws asks: "You admitted punching him in the face there?"
Heard says: "No.”
Ms. Laws says: "And it was not in self-defence was it?"
Heard answers: "That's exactly what it was.” She says at the time Depp was "falling against the door and screaming out incoherently.”
She says she had previously kept an eye on him to check he wasn't choking on his own vomit. She says she "pushed the door as an instinct. to get it off of me as it was putting pressure on my body.” Heard says: "I knew better than to fight with him about the details of the fight, and what he perceived as injuries to him. My job was to say sorry, and get him on track, and move on to bigger things.” She says doing so would have "made him more mad, enraged, and he would have got more violent with me.”
Ms. Laws says every time there is evidence showing Ms. Heard admitting to violence, she "turns it round" and alleges self-defence. "It's what you do isn't it?" Ms. Laws adds.

We are now about to be played audio of another conversation between Depp and Heard. Again, this audio is hard to hear. We hear Heard saying: "You're trying to justify how you do or don't come to the door.”
Depp says: "You seem to think there's this cowardice in me, running away from me.” He says "the only time I did things to you was when you threw the can at me in Australia.”
We hear Heard saying she "threw pots and pans.”
Ms. Laws asks if Heard said in the audio that was in self-defence?
Heard answers "that was not the point of the conversation.”
Ms. Laws says in this case Heard "does not want to ever admit to using violence against Mr Depp. You don't want to admit the truth - that you were violent do you?"
Heard says this is not true.

We now hear about what Ms. Laws calls the stair incident, which Ms. Laws says was "very violent.”
Ms. Heard says she was only ever violent "in defence of myself and my sister.”
Ms. Laws says Heard spat at Depp.
Heard answers: "I never spit at anyone"
Ms. Laws says Heard threw a can of Red Bull at Depp's back.
Heard answers: "I don't even drink Red Bull, no.”
Ms. Laws says Heard punched Depp in the face.
Heard agrees: "I did strike Johnny that day, in defence of my sister.”
Heard says the reason for this is: "I heard the rumour he pushed an ex-girlfriend down the stairs - I think it was Kate Moss - and that was fresh in my mind. So I reacted quickly." Heard goes on: "I have been Johnny's punching bag for years. And I remember this as it was the first incident when I ever struck him back. Ms. Laws puts it to Heard that this is the first time she has ever mentioned Kate Moss in relation to this incident.
For a second (third) time Ms. Laws tells Heard: "You are making this up as you go along.”
Ms. Laws says there has been no mention of Moss in Heard's deposition, and she has never before said this was the reason she "punched Depp" during the stair incident. The court is now being played Heard's deposition, which was also shown in court yesterday. In the deposition Heard is asked "have you ever hit Johnny Depp?"
Heard is told by her lawyers, "You don't have to answer.”
She says she was protecting "my baby sister" and she jumped up to "act defensively to protect her life.” She says "I would have done anything to prevent her from being pushed down the stairs. She says any sibling or parent would do the same.
Ms. Laws asks why she didn't mention Moss in the deposition.
Heard says: "I didn't have a chance.”
Ms. Laws asks if Heard has mentioned Moss in any statement, deposition or evidence so far.
Heard agrees she has not. Heard says "She had anything but the freedom to speak" and was "surrounded by 14 lawyers" on the recorded deposition shown to the court.
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For a third (fourth) time Ms. Laws says: "You are making this up as you go along sometimes. You add information you have thought of on your feet to try to make your account more detailed.”
Heard refutes this.

We have now moved on to an alleged attack on Heard by Depp on 23 March 2015, when he is said to have pulled her by the hair and hit her.

Heard tells the court: "He hit me with the hard plaster cast, and my sister Whitney. It was particularly unpleasant.”
At the time Depp had his finger in a cast due to an injury sustained in Australia. He chose one of the children's designs for the cast, with a picture of a baby dinosaur on in.
Ms. Laws asks why she did not mention the cast in her statement. Heard says she cannot mention every accessory or detail of every incident.

After the lunch break, the court is shown a photo of Heard with Rolling Stone Keith Richards, along with her sister. Heard confirMs. she is second left in the picture.
Ms. Laws asks Heard if it's correct there is no bruise on her cheek.
Heard says she cannot tell.
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Heard says this photo was taken "right before" the painting incident. She says her previous reference to "disco bloodbath" was actually in relation to another fight, not the argument over a painting by her ex-partner Tasya Van Ree. Heard has alleged Depp hit her because the picture was hung up in her bedroom, and that Depp tried to set fire to art work.

Ms. Laws now asks detailed questions about the "disco bloodbath" fight. She asks: "How did he hit you in such a way that blood spattered on the wall?"
Heard says: "Back then it was just slaps or backhands, and at the time it was a shock. I felt his rings hit my mouth, my teeth."
Ms. Laws asks: "How close were you?"
Heard answers: "We were at his downtown place in the Eastern Columbia building. All the details of these incidents remain true. I remember them perfectly. There has been a mistake with dates. That particular incident which we called disco bloodbath happened on the 8th, downtown. "
Ms. Laws now tries to interrupt, but the judge cuts in saying: "It's easier if I can hear one person at a time.” He says Hurd is answering the question, and he wants to hear it.
Heard goes on: "All I can tell you is Johnny wore these rings. He backhanded me. We got into an argument because he said I'd had affairs with two people I never had an affair with.” Heard says the blow "popped my teeth.” She says she was standing next to the living room, and she recalls "the next day there was blood next to the Smeg fridge. The next day Johnny made a joke about it.” Heard says the wall was around two or three feet away from her at the time.
Ms. Laws is keen to know the angle and exact proximity.
Ms. Laws is now asking: "What did the blood spatter look like?"
Heard says she cannot recall, going on: "We made light of it. It's hard to believe, but I was so quick to think it would never happen again."
"How many drops of blood?,” Ms. Laws asks.
The judge interrupts again and says he doesn't think knowing the exact amount of blood is helpful.
Ms. Laws is putting it to Heard that she changed her account of the date of the alleged painting incident as there was the Keith Richards photo showing her with a clear face the day after the alleged fight.
Ms. Laws says Heard shifted the painting fight to 22 March 2013, and said the disco bloodbath fight happened on the 8 March.
Heard says no, she had no need to change the dates, and that she has always said the disco bloodbath was on 8 March.
The judge asks for clarification of what "disco bloodbath" means.
Heard says: "He hit me, and split my lip, a blood went on the wall and on my shirt.” She says the phrase was used by Depp later, and is the title of a book. She says she asked him if that was in reference to the alleged fight on Friday.
Ms. Laws tells Heard she has "missed an important detail" in her statement, and that's why she changed the date.
Heard says that is not the case, but says there were "so many incidents in March" that she got mixed up as to what happened at each one.

We are now looking at the Keith Richards photo again, and Amber says she can't be sure there isn't damage to her face. She says: "My bottom lip looks swollen to me.”
Sasha Wass, the lawyer for The Sun, has now interjected.
The judge is getting a little cross over lawyers in court talking over each other, and says for a second time he can only listen to one person at a time.

Heard is now being asked to look at screen shots taken on 7 April 2013.
Ms. Laws says we will also be discussing flight details relating to a man called Ian Patrick McLagan, who has played the guitar for the Rolling Stones.
Ms. Laws asks, "You have seen these documents before haven't you?"
Heard says she has seen so many documents she can't tell, and then adds "I don't think I have seen this.”
Ms. Laws says it's these flight details that have caused Heard to change her dates in her earlier statement.
Heard refutes this.
The documents include an email chain about flights and travel to set. Depp's lawyer Stephen Deuters is cc'd in.

Ms. Heard says she "vaguely recognizes" the second photo with Ian Patrick McLagan.

Ms. Laws says Heard hasn't just changed the dates, she has also "shifted the more lurid and graphic" accounts to earlier in the timeline (specifically 8 March), to explain her clear face in the dated photos.
Ms. Laws says Heard is "treading a fine line" as her sister Whitney has already said in her statement that Heard had a split lip after the painting incident.
Heard says no, the truth is that Depp "hit me a lot in March."
We now look at Heard's sister's statement - Whitney Henriquez - talking about arriving at Heard's apartment after the painting incident. Whitney says when she came home on the day Depp should have been filming a documentary with Keith Richards, she came home "and the place was a mess.” She says the painting had been taken off the wall, and she noticed the signature of the painting had been altered.
Whitney also says "it was apparent she [Heard] had been crying, her face was swollen. I noticed that one side of her face was super-red and she had a split lip."
Ms. Laws tells Heard: "Your sister has made the made mistake as you, saying you had a red face and swollen lip on the day you went to the filming of the Keith Richard's documentary."
Ms. Laws says this is a description of an "obvious and clear injury, which we can't see in any of the photographs."
Ms. Laws goes on: "You have quite a difficult path to tread because of all the lies you've woven. You've woven a web of lies which you've had to shift and change because of evidence that's come to light around this Keith Richards documentary."
Heard disagrees.
We are now looking at a photo of the painting, which shows the altered signature, changed from "Taysa van Ree" to "Taysa van Pee’
We hear a text message exchange between Depp and Whitney, in which Whitney seeMs. to be cheering him on for defacing the image.
One reads: "She' s the worst,” apparently referring to van Ree.
The judge asks if Heard has "tried to construct an incident around these documents’
Heard says no, "It's a totally different painting, and I don't think Johnny realised that’
Heard says Depp defaced multiple paintings, and "the one he tried to light on fire was a canvas’  
Ms. Laws says "multiple paintings" is now "another detail added’
Heard says the number of paintings he destroyed was "countless’
For the fourth (fifth) time, Ms. Laws tells Heard she is "making it up as she goes along’
Heard says in the text exchange, which seeMs. to say she also found the image tampering "funny,” it is because on that occasion "you could wipe the mark off the glass’ She says Ms. Laws is mixing up two different painting incidents, one in 2012 and one in 2014.
Heard says: "I didn't shift anything’

After a 10minute break, they went into the three day "hostage situation" Heard says she suffered at the hands of Depp in early March 2015.
Ms. Laws says Heard has alleged "extreme acts of physical, emotional and psychological violence" in her earlier violence.
Ms. Laws says she wants to find out exactly what physical violence took place.
A sentence in Heard's statement says: "I fell like a rag doll.  I got back up and he said something like “You want to go? You want to fight, tough guy?” and he slapped me in the face."
Another says: " He grabbed me by the neck and shoved me against the fridge’ It goes on: "Over the course of the day, he kept attacking me – he hit me, pushed me, choked me and spat in my face."
Ms. Laws goes on to another extract which reads: "I tried to run past him to get away and he grabbed me by the hair, hurled me around. I fell onto the ping pong table and it collapsed under me. He ended up on top of me."
In Another part of the statement about the same incident, Heard says Depp "ripped off my gown" and later smashed her phone so hard "It broke into pieces’
Ms. Laws now moves on to an alleged incident on day two of the "three day incident’
In her statement Heard says: " Glass was broken everywhere – on the floor and the counter-top. At some point he pulled me around by my neck and pushed me down against the bar, I was against the bar, naked, bent over backwards, my back against the marble. He was pressing so hard on my neck I couldn’t breathe.
A visibly and audibly upset Heard now tells the court: "I was naked and my feet were bare, so I couldn't get a purchase on my feet... I was trying to push away from the counter top so I could breathe. I thought he had lost control of what he had done, I was slipping on the counter tops and slipping on the glass’
Heard is crying a little as she says this.
In her statement Heard says she still has scars from the glass on her feet and arMs..

As the cross-examination moves to a photo taken of the injuries Heard alleges occurred on the trip, she wipes her nose with a tissue.
Heard says she took these photos herself in the bathroom.
Talking about the photos, Ms. Laws says: "These are not scars sustained writhing around on the floor trying to get away from Mr Depp. They are straight."
Heard says: "I do not agree, I know they are’
Ms. Laws suggests they are "self-harm scars, inflicted by you’
Heard answers: "I have had them since that night... I have never self-harmed. Johnny's a self-harmer, I'm not a self-harmer."
Ms. Laws is now questioning Heard's comparison of the situation with being "a hostage’ She says, "You could have left at any time couldn't you?’ She goes on, "And you had a cell phone didn't you - you could have called anyone at any point’
Heard accepts she did have a phone, and could have called someone.
However Heard says she has not mis-characterised the situation, saying: "Absolutely not. This was my marriage. I lived in it.”
Ms. Laws says the three days are a "graphic depiction of the three day hostage situation,” and questions why Heard didn't record any of this at the time.
Heard says that Depp had "taken eight to ten MDMA on the first night, maybe even more. There was no valuable conversation between us that would have been worth recording."
Ms. Laws is asking about a phone call from Heard to her sister shortly after the Australia incident.
Ms. Laws asks why she did not tell her sister about what had happened.
Heard says: "I can't remember what I said to her, but I certainly wouldn't have recalled everything that had happened to me.”
We are now talking about an audio recording, which appears to have been taken on Heard's phone but which she says Depp recorded. The audio is said to last "seven or eight hours.”
Heard says "years later" she realised Depp had recorded it, and she only understood this once it "came up in my divorce proceedings.”
Ms. Laws asks why this is not mentioned in her statements.
Ms. Heard says she can't mention everything.
Ms. Laws asks Heard when she discovered her phone after the recording had been taken.
Heard says it was the next day, as she "had been given some drugs, and slept.”
Ms. Laws asked how Heard managed to call her sister if the phone was recording, and Heard says maybe on her iPad or through Facetime, but she "has no recollection of that call.”
Ms. Laws asks Heard: "You use your phone a lot and don't like to be away from your phone?"
Heard answers: "I wouldn't characterize myself that way."
Ms. Laws is asking Heard if she ever listened to the long audio file on her phone.
Heard says: "At some point, but maybe I just read transcripts, I can't remember.”
There is also apparently a second recording, taken several hours later.
The judge asks if Heard knows if it was her phone that recorded both. Heard says she doesn't know, "But that was my suspicion.”
He then asks if she called her sister on her phone.
Heard says: "I can't remember making that call.”
Heard asks the judge if she can ask a question.
The judge says: "This is a one-way process , so it's not for you to ask questions to Ms. Laws.” He asks Ms. Laws to continue in her questioning.

Ms. Laws is asking where Heard spoke to her sister, and whether it was upstairs.
Again, Heard says she can't remember, but she says she did go upstairs at some point.
Ms. Laws is pushing the point that she wants to know why the phone has recorded a conversation with her sister, close by the phone, but she was not using the phone itself.
Heard says Jerry Judge (Depp's late head of security) was downstairs.
Ms. Laws asks why heard was not looking for her phone.
Heard answers: "After everything I'd been through, strangled, hit, sexually assaulted, the last thing I was thinking about was where my cell phone was.”
Ms. Laws is asking Heard why she returned to a bedroom she claiMs. she had been assaulted in, to which the actress replies: "It was not the room that was the problem."  

Talk then returns to an allegation made yesterday in court by Heard, that Depp took her vintage Ford Mustang from her.
We move on to documentation over an MOT. However, at this point, the judge suggests it's a good place to end for the day.

Don’t even get me started on how ludicrous this testimony is or this update will be twice as long. Suffice it to say I’m outraged over the bullsh*t that got dropped by Amber Heard today.

More as I find it, folks.

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