“Aquaman” actor Amber Heard delivered the final testimony in the multimillion-dollar defamation battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp on Thursday, telling jurors she has faced daily harassment and death threats since she accused the Hollywood star of abuse.
Depp, 58, sued Heard in Virginia for $50 million and argued that she defamed him when she called herself “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Heard, 36, has countersued for $100 million, claiming that Depp slandered her when his lawyer dismissed her allegations as a “hoax.”
On being asked by her attorney regarding the impact of claims that she fabricated her allegations of abuse, she said, “I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day. Even just walking into this courtroom, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life, things I lived through, used to humiliate me.”
The ‘Aquaman’ actor recounted receiving threats from “people [who] want to kill me, and they tell me so every single day.” She said, “People want to put my baby in the microwave, and they tell me that.”
Heard added, “Johnny threatened, promised, promised me that if I ever left him, he would make me think of him every single day that I lived.” “I would not wish this situation on my worst enemy,” she told the jury.
Depp lost a libel case less than two years ago against the Sun, a British tabloid that labeled him a “wife beater.” A London High Court judge ruled that he had repeatedly assaulted Heard.
Depp`s lawyers filed the U.S. case in Fairfax County, Virginia, because the Washington Post is printed there. The newspaper is not a defendant.