Amber Heard’s sister affirmed in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial on Wednesday that the star once struck both her and her sister during an altercation.
Whitney Henriquez said Depp chased her up some stairs after a disagreement in the Hollywood couple’s Los Angeles home.
“I’m facing Amber,” Henriquez said in court, referring to the alleged encounter. “He comes up behind me and smacks me in the back, kind of over here.” He elbows me in the back. ‘Don’t strike my (expletive) sister,’ Amber yells. She smacks him and hits him.”
Amber Heard's sister accuses Johnny Depp of hitting her"Johnny grabbed Amber by the hair and was whacking her repeatedly in the face." Amber Heard's sister, Whitney, accuses Johnny Depp of attacking her while the couple were fighting.
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Henriquez also claimed that Depp pulled Heard by the hair and slapped her in the face many times. Depp has repeatedly rejected any allegations of physical abuse.
Depp, 58, is suing his ex-wife, Amber Heard, for $50 million in retaliation for an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018, in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic violence,” more than two years after filing for divorce and a restraining order.
She never mentioned Depp by name, but his attorneys think it alludes to the claims she has leveled against him. Heard is suing Depp for $100 million in retaliation.
Heard, who met Depp on the production of “The Rum Diary” in 2011, took the stand earlier this month.
“I just laughed because I believed he was joking,” she said of the first incident in which she said he slapped her. “He then smacked me across the face.” And then I laughed. I laughed because I had nothing else to do. “I thought to myself, ‘This has to be a joke.'”
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor has stated that he has never struck Heard or any other woman.
“Since the word of this claim had sort of penetrated the business and then made its way via media and social media and since I knew there was no truth to it whatsoever,” he said when he affirmed a month ago.