Seattle Daily Star

  Aquaman actress Amber Heard took the stand on Wednesday for the first time in the weeks-long defamation suit filed by her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp. “This is the most painful and difficult thing I have ever gone through,” Heard said. “It’s horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything.” Seated directly across from Depp, Heard sometimes blushed when she recounted the affection and gifts the Pirates of the Caribbean star lavished upon her, her friends and her family. After meeting her on the set of The Rum Diary , Depp sent Heard designer dresses, rare books and once even tried to buy her a horse, which she declined, the actress said. Depp soon invited her to holiday on his private island and developed a unique rapport with her father. “Sometimes I’m surprised my father didn’t marry him,” she said in a relaxed moment. Then her evidence turned to a moment when Heard asked Depp about a tattoo on his arm that reads: “Wino Forever” — altered from “Winona Forever” — ...

 Johnny Depp was dropped from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise because of the domestic abuse allegations made by Amber Heard, his former Hollywood agent said on Wednesday, backing up the actor’s claim against his ex-wife. “My opinion is that it was related to the accusations that Amber has made,” Christian Carino, who works for Creative Arts Agency, said in a videotaped deposition in the defamation suit filed by Depp against Heard. Depp filed a defamation case against Heard over a column she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse”. Heard, 36, never named Depp, 58, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages. Texas-born Heard countersued, asking for $100m, claiming she suffered “rampant physical violence and abuse” at his hands. Depp filed the defamation complaint in the US after losing a separate libel case in London in November 2020 that he ...