Amber Heard's sister has been accused of lying after claiming she was not "frightened" of her older sibling.
Ms Heard, 34, has concluded her evidence in her ex-husband Johnny Depp's libel case against The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton and the paper’s publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN). The actress has made over 14 allegations of domestic violence, which NGN relies on in its defence of an April 2018 article which branded Mr Depp, 57, a "wife beater". Mr Depp denies the allegations and accuses Ms Heard of orchestrating a #MeToo "hoax" against him.
Ms Heard's younger sister Whitney Henriquez had told the High Court she was not "frightened" of her sibling and denied ever being on the receiving end of any violence.
But Mr Depp's lawyer David Sherborne accused Ms Henriquez of lying on Friday and a bombshell tape was played in court which shows injuries said to have been inflicted on her by Ms Heard. Mr Sherborne said his team was given the video overnight "to explain Amber Heard has a history of violence and attacking people".
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Eleanor Laws turns to Amber Heard's claims that Johnny Depp slapped her and pulled clumps of her hair out in 2015:
Eleanor Laws QC then turned to an alleged incident of domestic violence in Los Angeles in December 2015, which Amber Heard has described in her first witness statement as “one of the worst and most violent nights of our relationship”.
Ms Heard alleges that Johnny Depp slapped her, dragged her by the hair through their apartment – pulling clumps of her hair out – and then repeatedly punched her in the head.
The actress became visibly upset as Ms Laws read through passages of her witness statement detailing the alleged abuse.
Ms Laws said: “That’s just a complete set of lies, isn’t it?”
Ms Heard replied quietly: “No.”
Ms Heard asked about "train incident" on Eastern and Oriental Express
Ms Laws then moved on to the “train incident”, when Johnny Depp is said to have been violent to Ms Heard on the Eastern and Oriental Express in South-east Asia in August 2015.
The barrister said: “This is yet another occasion when you had a row and it was you who lost your temper.”
Ms Heard said: “No, I disagree.”
Ms Laws showed Ms Heard a photo of Mr Depp, taken on the train, which she said showed “an injury on his face”.
Ms Heard said she could not see any injury to Mr Depp.
Ms Laws continued: “This is yet another occasion where you have completely turned an incident around and blamed Mr Depp.”
Ms Heard said: “No, I have tons of pictures from this vacation and these days and he’s uninjured. He strangled me.”
Eleanor Laws QC then asked about a statement made by Kevin Murphy in the Australian proceedings about the dogs being taken into the country illegally.
The barrister said to Amber Heard: “If Kevin Murphy hadn’t made that statement the charge against you may have been far more serious.”
Ms Heard replied: “No, I plead guilty.”
Ms Laws suggested that “trying to get around official rules is something you’ve done before, isn’t it?”
Ms Heard said: “I don’t even know what you mean, I’m sorry.”
She added: “Particularly with the dogs travelling, Johnny would tell me that it could just be taken care of and when I expressed to him that it wasn’t in my hands… he would tell me ‘just tell them to take care of it, just tell them to grease the f******’.”
Ms Laws then said: “You don’t think there’s anything at all wrong (with) getting a vet to slightly alter a health document?”
Ms Heard replied: “Of course I do, but it wasn’t always my choice. I didn’t live in a relationship where I had a lot of choice.”
Ms Laws then read an email from Ms Heard to her former assistant Ms James, sent in 2013, which asked if she could find a vet who would “slightly alter a health document that has their (the dogs’) shots recorded… so they can all leave together”.
The email added: “Do you have a vet you can grease?”
Ms Heard said: “I sent it at Johnny’s request, that’s his language.”
Ms Laws said to Amber Heard: “Every time you are asked about a document or a recording which might appear to implicate you… you blame Mr Depp, every single time, don’t you?”
Ms Heard replied: “No.”
Ms Heard claims Mr Depp grabbed her hair and knelt on her back during an assault in Tokyo
She told the court she attended a film premiere two days after the alleged incident in January 2015.
“I remember being concerned about any visible bruising on my back because my back was exposed”, she said.
Ms Laws asked: “Do you remember wearing a backless dress to the premiere?
Ms Heard replied: “Very well.
Ms Laws suggested: “You didn’t have any injuries on your back.”
Ms Heard said: “Not visible, I remember checking obsessively.”
Aquaman star describes alleged headbutt incident from Mr Depp
Ms Heard said: “His head come into contact with mine. Very deliberately.
“He clenched his fists, leaned back, and slammed his head directly into my nose.”
She was questioned about photos taken after Depp allegedly tore out her hair, and said: “My scalp was in pain, my best friend asked me to lean over to photograph a few spots where my scalp was bleeding and pussy.
“When I saw the photos, I saw the puss.”
Eleanor Laws QC suggested a picture of Heard’s pulled-out hair did not have any signs of the root on it.
She replied: “This is one of the many clumps of hair pulled out by Johnny that night.”
Ms Laws asks Amber Heard about taking her and Mr Depp’s dogs into Australia illegally in 2015
The barrister read a series of emails sent between Ms Heard and Mr Depp’s then-estate manager Kevin Murphy, in which Mr Murphy told her that “the dogs will not be allowed to fly commercial in the passenger compartment to Australia”.
Ms Heard told Mr Murphy that she did not want to put the dogs in “cargo”, and said: “Unless there’s another way to get them there or get them on the plane with J.”
Ms Laws said: “You were told by Kevin Murphy, who had been doing quite a lot of work on this, that he wasn’t able to get the documentation ready in time.”
Ms Heard said: “No … this is a process that had been going on for about six months and I was out of the country filming a movie, I wasn’t there with Johnny so it was quite confusing to me.”
She added: “When Johnny wanted something it happened. He always found a way to make it work.”
Ms Heard continued: “He told me when I landed. I was only in LA for a matter of hours before we got on his plane for his movie on his flight with his staff.”
She said Mr Depp told her “everything had been taken care of”, adding: “I had no reason to get any clarity.”
Ms Heard today denied biting her lip to draw blood when claiming she had been beaten up by Johnny Depp in an incident that broke their bed
The Aquaman star said she was pinned down and struck repeatedly by the actor, headbutted, and chunks of her hair were pulled out.
She was seen by a friend, Erin Boerum, who reported that the actress was “dishevelled, weepy, and sad” but noticed no injuries other than blood on her lip.
Countering claims that she had no bruises, Ms Heard said: “I had bruised ribs, a bruised body, bruises on my forearms from trying to defend the blows.
“I had two black eyes, I had a broken nose, a broken lip. I was bruised really badly on the hairline, on the scalp, and my chin.”
She described purple marks on her chin, and rejected an accusation that her story was “absolute nonsense”.
“You had bitten your lip because fresh blood was on it”, said Eleanor Laws QC. “Had you just done that for her (Ms Boerum’s) benefit?”
Heard replied: “Of course not.”
"Sometimes I get angry enough that I lose my cool," Ms Heard tells the court
Ms Laws asked the actress about her using the phrase “have you been so angry you’ve lost it?”
Amber Heard said: “I have referred to losing your cool as ‘losing it’. I specifically denied referencing it to Ben King.”
She added: “I said if I did use that phrase or anything like it, I would’ve been asking about Johnny’s behaviour, not my own.”
Ms Laws put it to Ms Heard that it was a phrase she had used about herself, and played part of an audio recording to the court, which was mostly inaudible in the overspill courtroom where the media are listening to proceedings.
The barrister then asked: “Is it true that sometimes you get so angry you lose it?”
Ms Heard replied: “Sometimes I get angry enough that I lose my cool.”
Ms Heard denies screaming at Mr Depp and calling him a "coward"
Eleanor Laws QC said: “And afterwards, we have got those tapes… when security arrived, you were screaming at Mr Depp not to leave and then in another moment calling him a f****** coward for going.”
Ms Heard said: “I didn’t hear it on the audio files.”
Pressed further she added: “No on both of those accusations, absolutely not. I was just in another room crying.”
There was an exchange between Ms Laws and Ms Heard about whether she had listened to the audio file and she confirmed she had only listened to part of it, but said it was the relevant part.
She told the court: “At the beginning of the tape, you can hear how it ended. It ended with Johnny (shouting) incoherently and I was in the bathroom crying.”
Ms Heard tells the High Court she “took the charges” over the infamous dog smuggling incident to protect Johnny Depp’s Hollywood career
She was accused in Australia of breaching quarantine rules when bringing the couple’s pet teacup Yorkshire terriers into the country in 2015 when Mr Depp was filming Pirates of the Caribbean 5.
Ms Heard said she had assumed the paperwork was “taken care of”, and suggested Mr Depp had avoided implication in the criminal case despite signing the same forms that she did.
“Johnny is the boss. I didn’t call any of the shots, it was Johnny’ plane, Johnny’s staff, Johnny’s crew, for Johnny’s film”, she said.
“We both flew in, Johnny and I, with both dogs, for his movie in his plane, we brought the dogs in plain sight. I was the only one that took the charges – if Johnny took charges it would further compromise Pirates which was already compromised.”
Ms Heard claimed Mr Depp had “told me we could bring the dogs in”, but he avoided criminal charges as the film he was working on had already been delayed by his severe finger injury.
She later appeared in court to plead guilty, and blamed a paperwork mix-up for the incident.
“It because clear to me, if I took the charges because of my significantly less, you know, lesser profile in the press, it would somehow make it so his job was less threatened than it already was”, she said. “I took the charges and accepted I filled out a form incorrectly and it represented a falsehood.”
Ms Heard said the question of bringing the dogs into Australia had been under review for months before the trip.
“I was told many things when trying to figure out whether they could travel of not. I was shooting a movie”, she told the court. “I was told maybe, we might be able to, not yet, we had to wait for a different day. It was quite confusing.”