Johnny Depp's sister took the stand in his defamation trial and described their troubled childhood at the hands of their abusive mother.
Dembrowski, was called by Depp's team to testify Tuesday and told the jury about their upbringing in Lexington, Kentucky by 'high strung' mother Betty Sue Palmer and 'peaceful' dad John Christopher Depp.
Depp at times looked to the floor as his sister spoke. He appeared to be deeply moved as his older sister recounted their childhood together.
Asked if there were occasions where Heard was not nice to Depp, Dembrowski said there was one that 'really stayed with me.'
They were at Depp's office and Christian Dior had called saying they were interested in working with Depp.
'Johnny told Amber they were interested in him.
'Her reaction to that was she was in disbelief and sort of disgust because she said Dior, why would Dior want to do business with you? They're about class and style and you don't have style. It was insulting, kind of taking away that one moment. That insult is there.
'I've seen the insults, multiple times actually.'
Asked what Heard would say about Depp's physical appearance, Dembrowski said she would call him 'an old, fat man.'
Benjamin Chew, Depp's lawyer, began the line of questioning.
Did mother get angry with father?'
'Yes, Mom would scream, yell at him, she would hit him, call him names, that kind of thing.' Dembrowski said.
'Did your father hit your mother back?'
'No, dad never reacted when mom hit him or screamed at him.'
How did your mother treat you and your brothers and sisters?' Chew asked.
'Similarly in how she treated dad. She screamed, she yelled, she hit, she threw things, she called us names.
Depp has described their family home as a 'ghost house', which helped turn him into a more 'nurturing person'.
But the chaos was difficult too and Depp began using drugs at just 11 years old.
'Did your mother have special name for Johnny?' Chew asked.
'She had a few, some to not repeat,' Dembrowski said. ''One eye'' was her favorite. Because when he was young the doctors thought had a lazy eye, they put a patch on his good eye to strengthen his other eye.'
'Did Johnny respond?'
'Those names were just a way of life. We got used to them,' Dembrowski said.
'How if at all did Johnny react when his mother would hit him?', Chew asked.
'He was a typical little boy, when hurt he would cry. For the most part he just wanted to get away from it,' Dembrowski said, adding that he never hit his mother back.
'When he was older even if she hit or threw things he never went to that place he would get away, he would leave the area, go to him room.' Dembrowski said.
Dembrowski told the jury that she booked an extra hotel room for Depp and Heard whenever they traveled because Johnny would need to cool off alone when they got into an argument.
'When they were traveling I wanted to make sure there was an extra room because it wasn't unusual for them to have an argument.'
She said: 'I saw a repeat happening in life. When we were kids in arguments and fighting would start to happen. Our first thing to do was go and hide and get away from it. I recognized what felt to me a repeat pattern from his childhood. I wanted to make sure there was a place he could do just that'.
When Dembrowski learned Depp was marrying Heard, she felt 'scared', she told the jury.
She said: 'I was devastated actually it was going to happen as quickly as it was being pushed for. I actually tried to talk him into just waiting a little bit longer and not rushing'.
Dembrowski said that Depp's team wanted Heard to sign a prenup to 'protect his children' but she wouldn't do it - they got married without one.