Content caution: This story goes over sexual attack and abuse.
Johnny Depp is rejecting the sexual attack accusations his ex-wife Amber Heard‘s attorney made versus him on the very first day of his $50 million character assassination trial.
The previous couple is squaring off in the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia after Depp took legal action against Heard over a 2018 op-ed she composed for the Washington Post about enduring domestic violence. While the 35- year-old never ever discussed Depp by name in the short article– entitled “Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence—and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change”– her lawyer Ben Rottenborn now declares it was Depp who was the supposed abuser.
“Tragically, it’s true,” Rottenborn informed the courtroom in Virginia in April 11 throughout his opening arguments. “Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp.”
He likewise stated the starlet suffered domestic abuse by Depp that “took many forms,” consisting of physical, psychological, spoken and mental abuse.
“You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered,” Rottenborn stated about Heard’s upcoming statement. “You’ll hear that straight from her. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. It happened.”
