Amber Heard told jurors that she filed for a domestic violence restraining order against Johnny Depp out of desperation for a “good night’s sleep': 'I was very conflicted because the person I was afraid of, was also the person I was in love with.'
Breaking down on the stand, Amber Heard told jurors on Monday that she filed for a domestic violence restraining order against Johnny Depp in 2016 out of desperation for a “good night’s sleep.”
The temporary restraining order was granted in May 2016, when Heard finally filed for divorce, which she called the “hardest thing” she’s had to do in her life. But she said she didn’t think she would “survive” her marriage with Depp, whom she claimed physically, verbally, and sexually abused her for years. The pair, who met on the set of“I was conflicted. I knew after he threw the phone at my face…I knew I had to leave him,” Heard said about the decision.
Depp has long denied any accusations of wrongdoing, saying on the stand that Heard was the abuser in the relationship—and that he has never hit a woman in his entire life.
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