Actor Amber Heard is taking the stand in her own defense in a libel suit filed by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Actor Amber Heard told jurors Wednesday how difficult it has been for her to relive her troubled marriage to Johnny Depp as part of a libel lawsuit he filed against her.
"I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is," she said at the outset of her testimony."This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything." Heard's testimony comes after a psychologist hired by her lawyers testified that Heard suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from multiple acts of abuse, including sexual violence, inflicted on her by Depp.
Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote a December 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post describing herself as"a public figure representing domestic abuse." The article never mentions Depp by name, but Depp's lawyers say he was defamed nevertheless because it clearly referred to accusations she made in 2016 during their divorce proceedings.
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