Johnny Depp's friend says Amber Heard's accusations 'wrecked' actor's life
Lawyers for actress say ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star’s denials lack credibility because of past excessive alcohol and drug use A longtime friend and next-door neighbour of Johnny Depp testified on Wednesday that the actor’s former wife, Amber Heard, told him the star threw a phone at her and hit her inside the couple’s Los Angeles penthouse. But Isaac Baruch said he never noticed any evidence of abuse on Heard’s face when he first saw her in the hallway or the next day in the sunlit lobby of their art deco-style building. “She’s got her face out like this to show me and I’m looking, and I inspect her face,” Mr Baruch said of the encounter in May 2016. “And I don’t see anything … I don’t see a cut, a bruise, swelling, redness.” He is the second witness called in the trial over Depp’s allegations that Heard falsely portrayed him as a domestic abuser. Depp says that an opinion piece Heard wrote for The Washington Post in 2018 indirectly defamed him. Heard calls herself ...