Instead, the proceedings center on a Washington Post op-ed that Heard wrote in 2018 about the wrath survivors of sexual violence face in a culture that prefers them to stay silent. And the trial is not directly litigating whether he did so. Because I didn’t know what was going on.”ĭepp has denied ever hitting or assaulting Heard. And then, she alleged: “He slapped me across the face.” Her response, she testified, was to laugh some more. Thinking he was kidding-Depp had publicly struggled with substance abuse, and Heard claimed he’d been drinking that night-she laughed. The tattoo spelled out wino, she said he told her. She’d asked him about one of his tattoos: the one on his bicep (the one he’d famously had edited) that to her looked like a muddle of black ink. On the stand in her defamation trial a few weeks ago, the actor Amber Heard shared her account of the first time her now-ex-husband, Johnny Depp, allegedly hit her. The first time it happened, she said, she thought it was a joke.
