American actor, producer and musician John Depp, on February 3, 2015 married Amber Heard becoming officially Mr. and Mrs. Depp with a civil ceremony at their Los Angeles mansion.
Several days later, they celebrated their nuptials with a slightly larger wedding ceremony on Depp’s private island in the Bahamas.
Early May 2016, Amber Heard filed for a divorce from Jonny Depp who she referred to as a “monster” because she feared for her life.
“I had to leave him,” the 36-year-old actress Heard told the jury at the defamation trial filed against her by her former husband. “I knew I wouldn’t survive if I didn’t”.
Following the events, Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for more than $50 million over a 2018 op-ed she wrote about abuse against women and being a survivor of domestic abuse and never mentions the actor by name. Depp on the other hand has always denied he was violent to his then wife nor did he ever sexually assault her. In fact, the past Oscar nominee insisted that he was the abused one in the relationship.
Having started their part of the case earlier this week, the defense has been laying out the alleged physical, emotional, verbal and sexual abuse first via clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Dawn Hughes.
However, in March of 2013 there were a number of incidents. After one occasion, Heard took a photo of a large bruise on her upper arm. In another instance, she talked about being hit in the face by Depp.
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Clearly that beautiful time when the duo were in their “bubble,” as Heard called it did not last
Depp also declared in his 2019 Lawsuit that it was he, not Heard, who was the victim of domestic abuse in the relationship.
While Heard’s Bredehoft and Ben Rottenborn-led defense team have sought to puncture Depp’s version of events in the admittedly chaotic marriage with tales of drug and booze usage as well as violence, they have been on the backfoot narratively for most of the five-week-long trial so far.
At the end of the trail, the seven-person civil jury (five men, two women) found Johnny Depp innocent. They found that he was in the right on all three counts brought by Depp’s legal team, awarding him $15 million in compensation.
