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Amber Heard breaks down in tears on the stand describing how she finally decided to file for divorce from Johnny Depp because she feared he would kill her

Amber Heard
Amber Heard testifies in her defamation trial on May 16, 2022.STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
  • Amber Heard sobbed on the stand on Monday as she spoke about her divorce from Johnny Depp.

  • Heard said she finally realized her marriage was over when Depp threw a phone at her during a fight.

  • Heard testified that felt if she stayed in the relationship she "wouldn't survive."

Amber Heard got emotional on the stand on Monday as she described a breaking-point fight that finally led her to file for divorce from Johnny Depp.

The blockbuster trial resumed with Heard's testimony after a week-long hiatus. The celebrity couple dated for several years and were married for 15 months.

Depp sued Heard in 2019, alleging she defamed him and ruined his career by insinuating she was the victim of domestic violence in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Heard countersued, and has spent much of her time on the stand describing multiple instances when she said Depp physically and sexually assaulted her.

Heard said it was a fight in May 2016 that finally made her realize that her marriage was over.

She said they had spent the previous month apart, after having another argument when Depp was late to her 30th birthday.

Depp previously testified about leaving the apartment they shared in downtown LA after Heard's birthday party, and alleged his security guards later found feces in their bed, which Depp suspected Heard or her friends planted.

When they finally decided to see each other in person after the poop incident, Depp's mother had just died, and Heard thought he wanted comfort. Instead, she said he confronted her about the poop, which she said she believed was dog poop.

Amber Heard is seen with red bruises on her face in photos entered into evidence by her lawyers in her defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp
Amber Heard is seen with red bruises on her face in photos entered into evidence by her lawyers in her defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny DeppAmber Heard/Fairfax County Circuit Court

Heard said Depp threw a phone in her face during the fight, bruising her face. She said when that happened, she realized "I had to leave him."

"I had worked so hard to try and make this relationship work. I went to therapy, I went to Al-Anon, I got help, I read books. I did everything I could possibly do and it didn't work. I was conflicted," Heard said.

Depp previously denied throwing a phone at Heard during his separate trial in the UK.

She said she felt if she stayed in the relationship she "wouldn't survive."

"So I made the decision to file for divorce. It was hard because I loved Johnny so much," Heard said.

She said the moments of hope she had in their relationship were becoming "less and less regular" and violence was becoming "normal and not the exception."

"I was so scared it was gonna end really badly for me," Heard said, adding, "I believe he would have taken it too far and I wouldn't be here."

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