Um that's the whole day, and it could also not right all right. Your next witness your owner would like to call laura amber to the standard all right. Oh my god, it's happening, everybody ring the bells, bring the other's voices. Your next witness.

Your owner would like to call laura amber heard to the standard all right amber, laura yeah, i'm i'm fixing to relax. I'm fishing, it's relaxed, i'm fixing it. Okay, relax man, hey felix. Did you see chat made nbc? I am 36, i just celebrated okay, and do you have a daughter? I do uh.

She also celebrated every day, recently she's one okay, and what is your profession? I am doctor uh, mostly okay. Now, why are you here? I am here because my ex-husband is suing me for an op-ed, i wrote, and how do you feel about that? I um i s struggle to have the words. Oh, i struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is. Okay, this acting is l.

This is for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything, hear people that i knew um some well, some! Not if you don't watch that it's called sponsors, that's how we call it speak um about our lives in the way that they have um. This has been one of this is the most painful and difficult thing i've ever gone through for sure wow. Now there was a trial in the uk in july of 2020, where mr depp had sued the sun newspaper and dan wooten. You recall yes and what was your level of participation in that lawsuit in that trial? Well, i was not party to that lawsuit.

I was a witness um, i i suppose the primary witness, since it dealt with the truth of the relationship that i shared with johnny, and what, if any role did you have to play with respect to, for example, witness statements and testifying objection compound? I said, for example, overruled i had to write. I think i gave seven witness statements um under oath testimony. I sat on the stand for four days um under mostly cross-examination and up until this point it was the hardest thing i had ever had to do. Then.

Chad guys did you see yeah? Is it a strat? Is this right, i'm going to take you back and if you can just tell the jury a little bit about your background. Her hair is like this. You could see her face on the side of the jury. I'm from austin texas, outside of austin, that you probably haven't heard of your hair on face hair, fully clear.

Okay, look at the jury's, always here it's by my mother, my father and i grew up with a little sister. Although i have a big sister as well and your little sister's name is uh, her name is whit, wait heard and how much of an age difference is there between the two of you whitney and i are about one year. I think we're 16 months apart. So right next to each other, and what did your father do for a living? Oh, my god, my father um broke horses and did construction, relevance um.

He painted houses, um and uh hunted and fished, but that was for fun and what did your mom do? She worked for the state of texas um. Let me just since you talked about the breaking horses. Can you just tell the jury, what your role is and assisting your dad on that and what is involved in breaking horses objection leading. Can you just tell me about overworld good? You just got to stay on basically uh.

I i would help them. I was more of a crash. Tester objections are a little bit petty, it's a wild animal. It doesn't necessarily like to be ridden and uh.

There are people out there um who are crazy enough, like my dad to pick that as a profession, i guess - and he was really good with horses and um. I was the son he never had. So it was my job to you know, stay on, and what, if anything, did you learn from your father about how to react to the horses? Well with training horses um? I guess the key. The the key things are to not show fear, not get intimidated, not show fear, be tough and calm.

Tell the jury a little bit about your educational background during those growing up years and your work experience, i worked uh any job that i could from the time. I was really young. I wanted to get out of texas and do something with my life and see things and do things um. So i was in school and really pushed myself to.

I just always pushed myself to be able to accelerate the process. I wanted to of what and get out of school as fast as i could, and i wanted to do. I wanted to do more things with my life than stay in texas, so where did you go to school when you were younger? I was a scholarship kid at a catholic school um growing up uh several different catholic schools, but they were always in the other. You know on the other side of town in the wealthier part of town, and i grew up quite working class and uh and and thankfully, with um, you know as long as i maintained an a average, i uh i enjoyed the benefit of a scholarship and i Did that until i realized that i could take my ged and sats early, and i did that and placed out of school and effectively left school uh 16 years old, i believe, and what did you do for work during those younger years? I took any job that i could.

I worked at my father's construction company. Sometimes you know just administrative stuff. I mean it was a small company um, but i answered phones and i uh worked at a like a modeling agency that was also you know, offered photography, classes, makeup, classes, hair, hair and makeup classes for people that were pursuing a career in entertainment, and i started Taking classes that i paid for by working there effectively as a trade, and i eventually worked there long enough to be able to pay for my head shots, which are just the pictures that you use in the industry to promote yourself. You know in in whatever acting modeling or both okay and what, if any charitable work, did you do when you were still young, it started off as a requirement for the school i went to and then i liked it so much.

I think, because it it meant. I wasn't at home, and it was important to me - is just to not spend time at home and i um - i really i really loved meeting people. So i worked at the soup kitchen every morning before school during the school year. Uh for about four years there were, i didn't, go on weekends um, but on weekends.

I would do various things worked at children's like children's museums, typically because they would work with younger volunteers, um and mostly soup kitchens and things involving children. I worked at the um with deaf kids for a while and uh yeah. I love it and when you worked with the deaf kids, did you do to learn to be able to work with them? Objectionally holy caparoni and relevance, overruled uh. Well, i i taught myself how to sign basic sign language and then i um i pursued it.

I audited a uh a translate a course at the community college, which i ended up going to to get out of high school early later on, but i would audit classes the teachers never wanted to kick the you know random 12 year old out of their class. I suppose so i remarkably was able to audit um so much work for charity, but whenever she got older she gets seven million. She came and donated a one-fifth of what she said would donate to it. How did you end up in los angeles, so noble? I use subject i met, i did it.

I did a small job in texas uh, where i played a part in a movie and the actor in the movie that i was playing opposite. Had an agent visiting him from la and i met her on set and she said i changed her. She had heard about me from another bit part i did you know i was taking jobs in austin for really anything to be an extra to apply. My i did makeup once i um you know nothing, no job was too small or you know for me, so i i put myself out there and she had heard about me and she said i have heard about you in this town and so when they should Do her makeup tell her to remove their headphones if you're ever out in l.a, and i was like um holy, she got double buckets.

When can i come uh and she made an appointment with me for the following week and i used 180 or something um to get out there and that's i landed, i didn't know anyone. I was 17. um and i've effectively ever been there ever since. I suppose so when you arrived in hollywood, please tell the jury what you did to get moving there get going.

I went to every audition every casting every meeting, every appointment that i could. I i put myself out there. I didn't have a car um because those were expensive, so i took the bus around l.a before smartphones. I had a thomas guide in my bag and a change of tank tops um, not that it mattered.

But i went to about 10 auditions, sometimes a day and would change clothes i needed to. In the back of you know the bus i was taking and i just hustled from one audition to the other and uh. I got a bit part on one thing and then i got a bit part on another thing and then eventually my roles, kind of became more important or bigger and um. It's been a slow progression.

I guess since then you know doing either tiny bit parts in bigger movies or doing you know larger roles in movies that no one would see, and i guess you know it still is kind of like that. So i'm going to ask you to go from 2002 to 2009. If you could just describe for the jury a little bit, what types of parts you had um, i think they've indicated they didn't you. You have not been well known here in this courtroom compared to mr, let's just take them through a little bit of that yeah.

That's fair um! I did small roles in big films like zombieland and um pineapple express and movies that were well known, um. My first one was friday night lights, but again i had small roles in those bigger films and then i would do larger roles in um kind of smaller. She was a zombie i brought um. I did a project where i was the lead in a john carpenter.

Film and he came out of retirement to do that and that's kind of the how it was in terms of my career for those initial first initial 10 years, or so it was just going from slightly bigger role to slightly bigger role and just working. My butt off so i'm going to take you up to 2008. Did there come a time that you auditioned for the rum diary? Yes, i auditioned for that in about 2008. I believe please describe for the jury, your experience in auditioning for the room diary.

Well, i auditioned a few times which is common in my work. You know you get a call back as they say, and i think i had at least one maybe two callbacks with the director and then i got a call saying that johnny who at the time was, i think i knew that he was producing it as well. Was doing a project that was something very personal to him. He was reprising his role as his late friend hunter s thompson, and it was a very important project to him and that he wanted to meet me in person um.

I thought i would be going for. Maybe an audition um, but it was just a meeting. I went to his office um and met with him for a few hours, and what did you talk about during that those few hours? We talked about books and music poetry and we, like a lot of the same. We liked a lot of the same stuff.

You know obscure writers, and you know interesting books and pieces of poetry that i haven't heard anybody else reference or know or like, and he was very well read and charismatic, and you know i think i left the office with a few books that he gave me And we spent the whole time just talking about things that we care about, and i was i was so surprised that somebody you know i knew who he was. I wasn't familiar, you know i wasn't a fan of his work. I wasn't familiar with him, but i knew who he was. You know he's one of the most famous people in the world.

So that's all already last year thing to go, get called into his office and you know i'm a no-name actor. I was 22, i think, and i thought it was unusual. It was weird because he's he was twice my age and he's this world famous actor, and here we are getting along about obscure books and weird, you know old blues and we just it was. I thought it was remarkable.

You know i just hadn't really i thought it was unusual and remarkable cool. I left there just feeling like wow. So did there come a time that you learned that you were going to be cast for the role in the rum diary? Yes, a few days later, my agent said that johnny's gon na call you we gave him your phone number. I was like oh okay, and shortly after i my phone rings.

I pick it up and i hear you know this like deep voice on the other line and he said you got the you know: you're a kid you're, the you're, the dream hunter wrote this part and you're the dream. You're right kid and amazed: please describe for the jury what that means, what what was the rome diary and this hunter thompson? What was the concept here and what role were you playing um? Well, it was my understanding that he was bringing to life his late friend and what he told me was that this character is supposed to be the dream: woman like the dream, american dream and um. So i knew what he meant he indicated to me. When he told me i got the role that i was.

I was that you know, then he i was the dream kid, that's what he said. So did there come a time that you started filming the rum diary? Yes, i'm not quite sure how much i think we started filming in maybe march of 2009, and where did you film the rumble? Why would they act like they don't know we shot it? Maybe puerto rico, okay and describe if you can, the events of the filming and your interactions with mr depther. In that time it was a bit surreal in a place like puerto rico. Yes, it's beautiful.

Sometimes they do like it. It takes place in the 50s. I don't remember it was like everything on a daily sunday march, 8th 7, 39 p.m, 48 seconds on a dot. Just like he's, a very colorful um shoot in general.

I i i couldn't have asked for you know a a better scenario. I i was on on film, i mean i was on set um reading my books and occasionally johnny would talk to me and then he started to be really kind to me like more open with me when we'd have hot days filming, you know, there'd, be this Big suv, pull up and a security guard would kind of usher me into this car and it would have the ac blasting and i'd be sitting in the back of the suv. Just thinking what a strange experience the whole thing was - and you know we didn't - really have a whole lot of interaction on set until until we did a scene that involved um kissing, we had a kissing scene and it didn't feel like a normal. It didn't feel like a normal scene anymore.

It felt uh, it felt more real. There are certain things that you do in the job be professional like when you have to do that sort of scene, and you don't like you, you don't use your tongue. If you can't, if you can avoid it, there's certain things that you do to just maintain a certain line and it just felt like those lines were blurred. I mean he grabbed my face and pulled me into him and really kissed me, but we were filming a scene.

Did he use his tongue? Yes, okay. Did your birthday. Did you celebrate your birthday? While you were in puerto rico, i did. I celebrated.

I think the third birthday there and what, if anything, did mr depp do for your birthday? Well, we were already kind of talking about books and poetry, and things like that. He gave me a few really beautiful, poetry books and he gave me a bicycle like a vintage bicycle, because at the time i was riding around on a bike, and i had a lot of time off since i was a smaller role in the movie and yeah. I think that was it okay now did there come a time that you ended up visiting him in his trailer? Yes, um. I think there was a.

We would hang out if you know, after or in between scenes or in between setups. Who often were you know, talking about things and would continue the conversation into the trailer, often with the director bruce robinson, was his name um and then at one point we we talked about wine. It's another thing that johnny and i shared in common, a love for wine, red wine uh, and we were talking about. Oh, just maybe we know about this um, a kind of wine that i enjoyed, and i was you know going on about how great this bargain wine was, and i didn't understand you know how much it johnny's taste and wine wise um.

So i was going on about the virtues of malbec or something, and i brought him a bottle of this wine and i set it down and at some point i'm you know, foot up in the air and basically kind of lifted. The back of my bathrobe up, and can i just stop you there? Why were you wearing a bathrobe because i was doing a scene um? It was a period film, so it took place in the 50s, and so i had all of this um old undergarments that are for that time. Era um on and the scene involved me changing um. So i had all the costume on and he kind of picked up the back of my robe with his boot and i kind of turned around and like laughed like giggled, you know um it.

I wasn't. I didn't feel i just didn't like. I didn't know what to make of it at the time and it just kind of i just kind of giggled and batted away playfully and uh. He kind of playfully kind of pushed me down on this like bed, sofa uh that was in his trailer just playful, um and flirtatious, and he said uh yum and he kind of like lifted up his eyebrows like that, and i just giggled laughed it off kind Of batted him away - and you know, moved on - went back to set and were you in a relationship at that time: okay, and was mr depp in a relationship at that time.

That was my understanding, yeah, okay, and did anything else of significant happen during that that time period, while you were filming with mr depp other than what you've told us double championship, we just had this. You know it was a friendship, flirtatious thing we i felt chemistry. I felt this other thing that was that went beyond the pale of my job for sure. Uh johnny clearly felt that way about me had indicated to me that that's how he felt in many different ways and but at the same time that's you know we were both in relationships and it is a job and you know uh, it was intimidating and i Just remember feeling kind of intimidated and a little nervous about that and i also was in a relationship.

So we went our separate ways and we didn't hear i didn't hear from him for a long time and that's so approximately. How long were you filming in puerto rico, for the room diary? A few months is my best and when you left puerto rico in the film mean, when is the next time that you had any contact from mr depp and contact could include anything like communications, written communications as well as telephone or otherwise uh. We had no contact until uh, johnny called me on the phone one day and i was driving and he invited me over to his home in california and beverly hills, and i um i was out of the blue. I didn't even have his phone number um, so i was, it was quite unexpected refresh.

He called me a second time, but i i don't think we actually connected or we didn't stay on the phone um because we did well yeah. We didn't really speak, but the first time was the only time i actually spoke to him and he invited me over to his house uh under kind of the he said that you know we could get bruce. Who is the director to come over something about the movie, but it was clearly not about the movie. If you know what i mean, it was so i said um i said my friends are in town uh and i'm i'm i'm busy with that and kind of hung up feeling really startled.

You know that didn't know what else to do what if any gifts did. Mr depp send you during that time period after you filmed the rum diary uh, he sent me several gifts. He sent me a beautiful dress, one that i wore in the movie. With a beautiful handwritten note, said: happy wrapping and um made a reference to the dress.

Being wrapping paper uh, he sent me a few gorgeous expensive. What i can only assume are expensive, collectible books items and then, when i was away filming on a different, you know a different job. He attempted, or he did send me some guitars uh. I know one delivery yeah, i just know there's about one delivery.

The bottom of the mouth was not the top, not one partner at the time, uh, intercepted sort of the attempt to deliver and called me immediately and said what should i do and i say well, i said, send it back and she did and observation. She indicated that there was at the time that there was another one that had already previously attempted delivery, and it was also rejected. We sent it. I sent it back because i wasn't there and i wouldn't have accepted it anyway.

Okay, did there come a time that you ended up having to go on a press tour for the rum diary? We i got a call for the rum diary press tour in the fall of 2011., so that's close to two two and a half years after you filmed um, i'm an actress, not a mathematician for a reason, roughly yes, okay and um. Could you please describe for the jury? What a press tour is just explain it to him when you take a a movie once it's completed and it doesn't have distribution you as part of the promotion of that movie. You go to these various places. Normally, cities like london or new york and you do press events in those cities to kind of promote the film and you go to place to place talking about the film, and so you were then called to participate in the press tour for the rome diary.

Yes, i had um just i was going. I just finished, going through the process of separation with my former partner, and i was moving and going through that, and i got a phone call saying remember that movie you did in puerto rico. Well, they want you for the press, tour and i said well perfect timing, and we did that. I think october late october, 2011..

Okay, so describe for the jury you're in some time during the press. Tour well on the first stop of the first stop. The beginning of the tour was los angeles, where we both lived and we did a press day normal press day and then at the end of it, i was invited by johnny to come up to his room to have a drink with uh him and the director Of the film and i went up to the room um to see both him and bruce um, but as soon as i got there johnny said bruce wasn't going to make it so i stayed johnny and i started talking uh. I told he asked me about my relationship, you know i'm going going through it um i'm going through the separation right now and it's been, you know rough couple of months, but that's normal and he said well that same with same with me.

You know it's been. I can't remember exactly how long he said it had been, but that he had split from the mother of his kids and said that he understood all right and then what happened. Next then we drank red wine and continued to talk and the talking became us. You know reconnect, you know it was like reconnection was almost instant um.

It was just chemistry, it's hard to explain that, but we sat on the couch and we talked and um. You know it felt like there was uh, it felt like there was an electricity to the room, and so i felt when i was alone with him anyway, and it was instant again. I was like whoa so on the on the couch we we talked finished. Some wine and then i got up and left and as i went to leave, he grabbed both sides of my face, similar to what he did in in in puerto rico.

When we were filming that scene - and he kissed me - and i kissed him back and what happened next, with respect to any relationship with mr depp well, then we fell in love. We went on this press tour and we went it was it was a beautiful and strange time. You know we went from we're flying from one not together, but you know going from one city to the next: europe um she's, doing the jury performance and we're just traveling around talking about this movie that we did together that we participated in her looking. You know at the first dinner in london, he sat me next to me.

He produced the film and was a part of controlling the film and was responsible for different things, and i was as a small as an actor having a small apartment and um. We went on this press tour and i think in london he sat. He had me sat next to him at this at a dinner and then we ended up spending the night together in my hotel room and for the rest of the press. Tour, we were, it was on i'll put it that way, all right and how long approximately did the press tour go? I don't know exactly how long it lasted uh.

I think you know there were press engagements in this city for a few days and then another city for a few days, and then there was a break and then there was another press opportunity. I believe so it was kind of spread out over over maybe a month, if i'm guessing so when you return to los angeles what, if anything, took place with any relationship with mr depp? Well, once we were back from the press tour, you know we had this whirlwind romance kind of just in these, like beautiful places all over and we're falling in love and not able to really show it because um he wasn't that the world didn't know about this Split between he and his former partner and, of course, um some woman. I was like what's that troubling, you know, and i i'd ask him: no. You know he swore to me that they hadn't even shared a bed for a year and that they were, but they were protecting the kids and not publicizing it so or not.

Making it known to the press - and so we kind of had to be a little bit under the radar not a little bit. We had to be really under the radar um because, as johnny pointed out that the world would blame me um and call me a homewrecker, even though i had nothing to do with it, so we were secretly dating and then you know it was it was. It was beautiful, it was um. I felt like this man knew me and saw me in a way that no one else had i felt he understood me.

I felt he understood where i came from. I i felt like i felt that, like when i was around johnny, i felt like the most beautiful person in the whole world. Oh my god, the acting holier. You know what made me feel seen made me feel holy.

A million dollars holy that kind of feeling where you know he's just lavish gifts and lavish expressions of love and how he had never met a woman. Like me, i mean i remember he took the foil off of the off of this uh bottle and put it on my ring finger, and i had only been with him like days. You know - or maybe maybe it was weeks at the time yeah. It was probably about a few weeks, but it just felt very intense, but we weren't doing normal life stuff.

We weren't like stuck in traffic with each other. We weren't going to the grocery store and doing life. We were like hiding in these places around the world. He had a lot of, he has so many homes and so we'd be in one of those homes or my home at the time, and it would be like a bubble.

Like a ins like, we were a little bubble of secrecy and it felt like a warm glow, as we would say, just music and and the kind of books that we both loved and poetry, that we both knew by heart and it it was um. It felt like an it felt like a dream. It felt like absolute magic, so, while you're dating, i take it you're dating at this point right, yes, well, you're falling in love, you're also waiting right, okay, yes, um! Did there come a time early on that you ended up going to his bahamas island, yes uh! So shortly after you know, i think, started dating october of 2011 and um though you know, as i mentioned this bubble, you know where he'd come over to my house and not leave for like three or four days. You know just smoking cigarettes and playing music and reading poetry to me or painting me or you know, just talking um and then he would disappear.

There would be just no way to get a hold of him. You guys notice. Some of the warnings she uses is very one-sided, a lot of times at first. I didn't really think anything about it.

He did this and i just i just responded. He doesn't leave the point and then came back and said he was dealing with something language. Uh would i join him in the bahamas and almost like him almost guilty of something yeah. It's not an, and i was on a trip with a friend of mine in spain and i it was for the holidays and i kind of re-routed my trip to so.

I could come and land in l.a instead of i mean landing in miami instead of la so i could go and meet him on the island and he had keenan come and meet me on that. Um. On that trip like in in miami, i get off one plane get on to another and go and join him on his private island, and i noticed he was drinking becks and tea like lots of tea, like lots of tea, and i i didn't foolishly think anything Of it um, i just you, know, thought the man really seriously. I missed it before, but really really loves tea, and we had this beautiful.

I don't know less than a week, probably um trip in the bahamas. A private island beautiful sandy beaches seem like it's a scene, you just don't. I had never experienced anything like that. Um.

It was a beautiful place, a beautiful time and uh. We felt i fell head over heels in love with this man. She's gon na say that every teacup was filled with alcohol. I assume you came back and we're talking.

Are we talking now early 2000's right? Yes, that's correct! Oh, so what were you doing? Work-Wise while you were dating him in this early stage? Already? Four? What i always do, i would be taking job to job to job going from one movie to the next um, mostly not filming in la so weirdly, live in la to go shoot on location in other places. So when i was in town, we would go back to this bubble like insular bubble with beautiful blaringly, loud music and no one else and nothing else. And then you know i'd go off to to work uh, and so he well eventually yeah. He left to shoot lone ranger.

I believe. Okay, now, we've heard a little bit about lone ranger and that that's about mid 2012 is that right when he was shooting that that sounds right, mid 2012 yeah and were you shooting anything at that time? I was shooting um machete, i believe i was shooting, machete kills and austin. I had a small part: okay, robert rodriguez. She knows all the timings of when i look at the audience you know, but she forgets that i think johnny was shooting and then having some time off, and there was just a lot of travel, a lot of movement, so okay and and so what? If any visiting did you do with johnny, while he was on his set for lone ranger and where was he well, he was filming all over the southwest and at some point i came to visit him and uh on one of his locations and i would stay In the house - because i couldn't really you know occasionally, i would leave with his security guards.

But i i didn't really have anything just sounds stupid. I think how to stay at home and paint or whatever and wait for him to come home and have dinner, ready and um it was. We would have these little bubbles, but kind of scattered throughout the southwest and as he was filming and at the time um johnny had you know when i first arrived at one of these locations. It was the first time that johnny told me that he had had a health issue, something with his liver and that he wasn't um.

That's why he was not drinking um. He was drinking a lot of tea like a lot of tea. Okay, we got that okay, and so we've heard a little testimony about boots. What, if anything, did you do to help johnny with his boots? Well, i mean i um, i suppose that i took off his boots uh and it made an impression on him and i would i was happy to watch him - do to show love um, certainly how i felt about him, but if he wanted to take off his Own boots, he certainly could did you buy mr depp any knives during that time period, objection leading sustainable what, if any, uh? What, if anything, did you do with respect to knives during the time period, you were well deleting objection leading still leading still leading yeah.

If anything overruled house overrule johnny had a thing for turquoise and that eventually you know being in the southwest, it happens really really quickly. I also too really love turquoise and he has a um. He loves knives. He loves a lot of things when johnny loves things, he does it a lot and lots of it.

So he had these daggers that he had given me that really they were beautiful in design um and their. You know long curved daggers uh and he just talked a lot about knives, had a knife and gun collection, uh and was quite proud of it, and at some point i i don't really remember exactly when it was, but at some point it picked up what i Thought was a really beautiful, turquoise handled um knife and i uh had it engraved with a saying um that johnny would say to me all the time uh, which i karambit blue, fade blue romantic as funny as that is to say now and what was the expression. The same until death, uh hasta la muerte in spanish, now by the time that you're visiting mr depp in during his shooting of uh lone ranger in the june through august 2012 time frame uh. What? If any relationship has he developed with your family? Pink? Oh well, starting really early on johnny, was so kind so generous to my family, but especially especially my mom and dad.

He just really. You met my dad and um my dad's, a big personality, uh he's a rowdy guy and johnny. Just all of a sudden. I had never noticed you know: johnny have a southern, all of a sudden johnny had the southern accent and was really like buddy buddies with him, and they really seemed to get along very well they're.

You know just like instantly. He was giving my dad gifts. He gave him guns, he gave him knives, they had this. I mean johnny, just really just showered my dad and my dad's, a a working man.

You know um guy and he was just like you know: floored he's getting all these amazing gifts and being invited to come on to these locations, and you know johnny's this big movie star and my dad was just like you know. I think my dad would have married him himself, not if i hadn't and he just instantly he gave my mom jewelry, brought her out to come and see me while i was visiting johnny uh on on lone ranger in in some part of the southwest. I think it was colorado he gave her this beautiful turquoise necklace, and i mean that yeah they were, they were definitely um taken by him and what, if any, uh relationship had mr depp forged with whitney by this time? Your sister, i believe the relationship came a little bit later, as they got to know each other, but he did the same thing with my sister and just really found um a bond with with them that you know was it was you know he tried to do Anything and everything he could for good ones to make them feel like special, and they did. You know my mom, my dad and my sister, and what, if any relationships, did mr depp form with your friends johnny's so generous, and can be this really like overly generous? Almost you know like showering you with, i knew it gifts and compliments, and just i mean like because i feel like this plays well into the love earlier, the other girl.

You know we're not talking about giving you a card we're like talking about just these like extravagant trips or these extravagant gestures, and it's it's a lot. He did that with my close friends. I'm relied heavily on on my on my friends and had a pretty strong support network with them and he really just showered showered them with generosity and love and light and invited them to come to these exotic places and flew people here, and there i mean it's Incredibly, very generous, i think everybody took note of that, so going back to the filming of the lone ranger. What, if anything, did mr depp do with respect to a horse objection leading yeah? I was gon na say something anything overruled.

How was it overruled insisted on buying me a horse and i of course said that's extravagant there's no way i could explain she's kind of she's contradicting her nervousness. So how do i take care of that? You know it's just so extravagant, so i said no. Of course, eventually he got a hold of my dad and worked it out with my dad what kind of horse to buy and then showed me a picture of this horse and said it's yours, it's it's it's coming here. I think it was being transported and he said you know that he had my dad's help on it.

Picking out - and you know i grew up, i feel like this is like not only leading it's like super leading so wise. Overall, though you know i i went i had my head was coming out of the blue. I think about a month of him kind of bringing up the idea and me saying that's a crazy gift. No thank you.

No that's incredibly generous, but i couldn't accept to all of a sudden. I had a cult so um. So let's, let's take you through because you can ask. Is there any big gifts that stood out yeah just describe for the jury a little bit about how that relationship evolved 2012..

It was always intense, it didn't become intense. It almost started that way. Um i when i was with him, you know i mail horses. I felt that electricity in my body i felt like butterflies that couldn't you know i couldn't see straight practically, it was just you know.

I had. I was head over heels in love and he felt like that to me. He felt like he was also in love. I didn't feel like he was faking it.

I felt like we what we had it felt like to me at the time. There wasn't any love like that, you know, and then he would. He started to kind of do this thing again where he'd disappear and he'd come back, and i remember at first would when he first started drinking, i didn't really think much of it, but all of a sudden, the behavior kind of started to go in line with The disappearing and he'd come back and he'd just be different, and i i'd say something and he'd accuse me of saying something else or saying it in a different way or he would um. It was mostly my clothing at the time and me working.

That was the main thing like i found myself trying to not talk about auditions because it was, it would change the mood so dramatically. I i tried to you know he would make these comments about. You know pouring myself out, but do so in the context of me acting, you know, and he would talk about other actresses, who do my role in this way where they were worthless that they were. They were, you know a fame hungry.

You know expletive expletive. You know just this. The point is it felt really dirty to be an actor, never mind that he was one it was more. It was dirty that i wanted to do this job that i wanted to do, and i was doing the job of an actress.

It was everything i every time i was walking out of the house. I he would ask me, that's really what you're wearing kid. Oh, i see. Obviously i wore a dress.

That is, that is the guillotine. She doesn't know what he's thinking by saying he's got. It felt beautiful in it. She can't she doesn't know what his intentions are by saying he's common sense.

Absolutely speculation. 100 dress. I picked out and i showed it because i you know it's a carpet, it's red carpet. So it's like you know, you don't know what it is.

How do you know? I wasn't saying anything about it. You know i left him to go. Do this red carpet and i was like: did you see the the you know? The event i went to you know basically i just i i felt pretty and i thought like did you see that you know? I wanted him to say something about that. I guess and randomly seven and he said well.

This is after he stopped talking to me for some time. Didn't tell me why, when he came back in my life, he wouldn't explain why he was acting different. He just kind of acted mad at me. I didn't know what i had done wrong and when i brought up the dress and the event because it was an event to support a charity.

I was really involved with at the time, and i said you know: did you see that thing and he said yeah yeah? I think the whole world saw that kid. That's how they'll remember you that's how the world will remember you. I was like oh come on. I mean it's like, but it you know i felt i felt good in it.

I felt good and he said yeah kid, that's what you're putting out there in the world. No one will ever forget that and that's all they'll see you as that's what you that's. What you wanted, that's what you were going for. You know, my stress was low cut.

I get it slow cut, but i thought okay, that was okay. You know, uh, i felt really embarrassed and this is acting scary. Come made that choice. Of course, you know he's right, you know you start to believe it.

I i was. That was also robotic. She did it then, of course um, but it didn't stop with that. It's just it was clothing in general and when i walked out of the house it was never.

It wasn't. Just like hey you're not allowed to wear that it was like. Oh really, that's what you're wearing! No wonder! No wonder you get cast in those roles. No wonder you you that's what you are, that's what you're making it there and it just it.

You know and then they're getting a whole show there would be a blow up and at first it was just to throw something smash. Some things bruh um, loves to smash up a place, an apartment, furniture, that's what it started with glass, threw glass at me, and i remember it was summer dude. Why is it lagging here? Um - and he just threw this glass across the kitchen - and i it didn't hit me, but i i it shattered behind me - and i remember thinking that it like very easily could have hit me and that calling me a horror. Oh, it didn't start with using the horror word.

It was just comments um until it would escalate, and then i started to notice the pattern of escalation. Where he'd throw glass or turn over a table, then he would hit the wall and then he'd hit the wall. Really close to my head, you know like when i'm standing there, you know just hit the wall screaming at me, um, but then he would um disappear and get clean and sober and he'd come back and tell me that he was done drinking. He was over it.

Yeah, it's done himself up, he'd done it before and he'd do it again and then he would go back to this. Like wonderful, like almost like just unreal like real, you know, but un unbelievably nice sensitive kind, warm generous, interesting funny reference number three, i'm pretty sure and he's the same topic chad would keep it in me feel so loved like it would get. I would feel so distant from that thing. That was so scary that i would not even recognize it too, and that was how you know our relationship kind of started to develop in that first year.

Do you remember the first time that physically hit you? Yes, please tell the jury about it, it's seemingly so stupid so significant. I will never forget it. I changed. Let's hear it, it changed my life.

I was sitting on the couch and we were talking. We were having a like a normal conversation. You know just there was no fighting, no argument, nothing and um. He was drinking and um.

I didn't realize at the time, but i think he was using cocaine because it was like there was a jar, a jar of cocaine out on the table. I realized that sounds weird, but it was like an actual vintage jar of it, but i didn't see him use at the time, so i didn't really factor that in i just you know, he's drinking and we're talking and it's there's music playing and he's smoking cigarettes And we're sitting next to each other on the couch, and i asked him about the tattoo he has on his arm and to me it just looked like um black marks it like i didn't know. I didn't know what it said. It just looked like muddled faded.

Tattoo that was hard to read, and i said what is it, what does it say and he um said it says why? No, it says why no and i um see that i thought he was joking because it didn't look like it said that at all - and i laughed it was that simple um i just laughed because i thought he was joking and slapped me across the face, and I laughed i laugh because i i didn't know what else to do. I thought this must be a joke. This must be a joke because i'm i didn't know what was going on. I just stared at him kind of laughing still thinking that he was gon na start laughing too.

To tell me it was a joke, but he didn't okay. He said you think it's so funny. You think it's funny, you think you're a funny and he sought me again like i was clear. It wasn't a joke anymore and i stopped laughing, but i didn't know what else to do.

You know you i i i i didn't know what to do you. You would think you you would have a response, but i, as a woman had never been hit like that, i'm an adult and i'm sitting next to the man i love and he's slap. He slapped me for no reason it seemed like, and i missed the point it was that stupid second slap, i know, he's not kidding, but i don't know what else to say or do so. I just stared at him.

I didn't say anything i didn't react. I didn't move or freak out or defend myself right or say what are you doing? You're crazy, i just stared at him because i didn't know what else to do and he slaps me one more time. Okay, i'm hard, i lose my balance um at this point. We're sitting next to each other on the edge of the couch.

I was on the edge of the couch, the is not working and i'm all of a sudden realizing that the worst thing has just happened to me. That could possibly happen to you. I realized that i i wish so much. He had said he was joking because it didn't hurt, didn't physically hurt me.

I was just sitting there on this on on this carpet. Looking at the dirty carpet wondering how i wound up on this carpet and why i was never why i never noticed that the carpet was so filthy before and i just didn't know what else to do. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to react.

I just sat there thinking how much time do i have to i figure out what i need to do, because god did he just hit me? No, i didn't want to leave him. I didn't want this to be the reality. I didn't want to have the man i was in love with. I know you don't come back from that.

You know not dumb. I i know you can't hit a woman. I you can't hit a man, you can't hit anyone, you can. Oh nice, nice saver.

She saved it, she saved it. I knew there was no. I knew it was she almost slipped, but she saved it and that's what broke my heart because i didn't leave him. I thought if i got up out of that room and i believe the best thing that ever happened to me and i wish i could sit here and say i stood up and i walked out of that house and i drew a line and i stood up For myself, no it's here, i'm going to make a polling chat.

Answer the poll i'm not going to be bringing it to you or not looking at the dirty carpet, trying to will myself to get up to walk out of the door because i knew i needed to and i really slowly stood up, and i remember looking at Him in the eye and just looking at him frankly, because i didn't know what else to do and before i know it, he starts crying and you know like i. I have never seen an adult man cry didn't really see my dad cry at my grandma's funeral. You know just it's weird and he's crying tears. I mean just falling out of his eyes.

He gets down on his knees and he grabs my hands and he's touching my hands and he's saying to me. I will never do that again, i'm so sorry baby. I i put the away, i thought i killed it and it's it's done. I i ki, i thought i'd put the monster away and i've done it before it's done, but on his knees, no, you can't cry as an adult.

Yes, you're not allowed to it's um. It's like i didn't have words. I didn't know what to say. I just remember thinking that it was just he was crying, he seemed so sorry, but i knew i couldn't just forgive him because i right that means it will happen again.

No, you know like i've. Seen the health class videos, you only do if you have no tears and i got up in my car. I walked to the car. I didn't say anything i made a point to not say: oh it's, okay or anything like that.

I just didn't say anything. I got up, i went to the car, i sat in my car and i felt like i sat there forever. I didn't want to turn the key. I just leaned my head up against the window and i remember just seeing my breath on the on the windshield.

You know on the the glass of the of the window of the door, just seeing my breath and trying to will myself to have the strength to know what i should do in this moment, because your useless details, uh great sense of uh heartbroken - and i sat There for a long time and eventually turned the key and drove home, and what did you do after that? I don't know now back to number one. I don't remember what i did when i got home. I don't remember um. I asked him.

I went to my therapist, i told her objection. Hearsay, i i'll sustain it as to what she made. I've told her. I went home and i um a few days later.

I started getting. I actually don't know how many days later, but i started getting calls and texts from johnny um. You know apologizing profusely, i mean just you know he was. He said, i'd rather cut my hand off than ever.

Lay it on you or lay it upon you. You know, and he had that way of talking - oh wait a minute and uh. He showed up to talk like with the understanding that you know he understood. I could never forgive him and it was done, i'm sure quasi example, safe and saying.

Okay, let's have a talk or you know, yeah we'll talk. I i i think you know i know i just wanted to see him and he comes over. Brings me gifts. He brought me a couple cases actually of that vega, cecilia wine, that we've heard about um, which is a really nice expensive wine - that i could never at that time dream of affording you know um and we talk, and he what tells me that he had put This thing away that i could trust him that it would never happen again.

Of course, it would never happen again, but he put this thing away. He killed the what he yeah it's another level, i'm there living over and over again i put that away. I killed that monster, i'll, kill it again. It's done i'll, never lay a hand on you again and i wanted to believe him.

So i chose to stay in the relationship yeah. I did i yes, i believed it, but you know i believe it wouldn't. I believe that there was a line he wouldn't cross again, and that was it and here so you stayed correct. You stayed in the relationship, yes, okay, so nope just is this a good time you're going to be going to keep going a little longer?.