[0:00]up for the first amendment. To stand up for the truth and Amber's right to speak it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bradderhough. Um, Mr. Bradderhough.
[0:17]Okay.
[0:43]Thank you. Good morning, still. It's good to see you all again and thank you again very much. Ben told you we will be relying on the evidence rather than the hyperbole and the personal attacks and he was right. The evidence in this case simply put is overwhelming and compelling. In the six weeks, we're going to try to show you as much as we possibly can. There are many, many, many photographs. Now, you heard Miss Vasquez try to say, oh, you can't trust those, it's not the original. She's got that wrong. It's not from the original devices. Miss Hurd took all kinds of photographs and her friends took photographs and all of those remained on the cloud and all of them have been imaged and all of them have been examined by their IT experts and they cannot discredit one photograph. Then she says, oh, and it's it's got a photo editing thing. Well, all iPhones have the photo editing, it's where you can make it a little lighter or darker, you can move it to the center or not. That doesn't discredit the photographs and we will have an IT expert who will testify that all of these are legitimate, authentic photographs. Not only that, but Miss Heard produced all of her different devices over the years, including her most recent laptop and they were pulled from many, many sources and all of them are identical. So if she was going to go in and try to manipulate, she would have had to do it everywhere and Miss Hurd will tell you, she doesn't have that level of talent. There may be a couple of you on the on the jury who have that talent, she does not have that talent. They're all very legitimate photographs and listen carefully to the evidence from the experts and you will find every single piece is authenticated and is true. And they show bruises and they show cut lips, they show hair pulled out of her hair. They pull, they show all kinds of, they show two black eyes when he headbutted her. Those are all going to be there. We also are going to show you a video and I'll talk about the the time frame of it. Miss Heard took that on her iPad, um, and it was one day when she was in the in the kitchen with Mr. Depp. And it was February 10th, 2016 and he's on a tear and he's going around, he's yelling at her and being abusive to her and he's slamming the kitchen cupboards and they're glass and you can hear them rattling and you can hear them breaking. Then he goes over with a big glass of wine and he has a huge bottle of wine and he pours more in there. And then she says, did you drink all of that? And then he sees that he's she's video taping him and bam. That's going to be a pretty graphic one for you to see. Then you're going to hear audio tapes, which are pretty significant too. Ben told you about the May 2014 plane, Boston plane incident, we call it, where he kicked her, where he was so drunk, he blacked out. Well, Amber audiotaped him when he went to the back of the plane and passed out and was moaning loudly. You will hear that. You will also hear some other audio tapes that are very significant. One of them in Australia, at the end of the three-day hostage situation. You will hear, apparently, Mr. Depp turned on Miss Hurd's iPhone. She was never allowed to have a password. By the way, he would never let her do that during their relationship, but he must have inadvertently turned it on. There's five hours of audiotape. It's during the cleanup of all the broken glass and the the liquor and the urine and the blood stains and everything else in that house. And you can hear his handlers talking about it. You can hear them talking about trying to find his finger and you can hear them say she's stone cold sober. You will hear all of that. It's very, very significant evidence. What this is going to tell you is the story of a very different Johnny Depp. It's one who is always, always, well, I can't say always, because he has the charismatic side that Amber fell in love with. But he has an enormous amount of rage. You will see the medical records and hear from the psychiatrist that talked to him for a while in 2014, where he admits that he has rage, that he's like a demon, that he views his his wife, Amber, like his mother and his sister that he hates. Um, that's, that's what you will see. You will see that and it'll be fueled by the alcohol and the drugs. Ben told you a little bit about that. You're going to see a list of his prescription drugs that his concierge doctor and team, who charged him $100,000 a month and have since 2014 and they are still his concierge doctors. That's the list of medications he takes in one day that they prescribe. That doesn't include the cocaine, it doesn't include the ecstasy, the MDMA, the mushrooms and all of the others. Now, it's during these rages that Mr. Depp engaged in verbal, emotional, physical and sexual abuse of Amber. Let me introduce you to Amber, the lesser known person here and I know when we were doing the deer, none of you had even watched as much as three of her movies. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about Amber. She's 35 years old. She's from Austin, Texas. She grew up outside of Austin, Texas. She has a daughter, Una, who turned one last week. Amber grew up in in a an area, her father was a construction worker, primarily a painter, but he would break horses as part-time. They lived out on a ranch area. His her mother, Paige, who died two years ago at age 63, dropped out of medical school to marry Amber's father. She worked for the state of Texas in internet communications. Um, they grew up very poor. Amber has a sister, Whitney, who's 16 months younger than her. Um, and you will see and hear from Whitney later because unfortunately, she also witnessed some of the abuse. Amber rode horses with her father. She tried to work with him to help him break the horses. She remembers having a broken arm at least four times being in cast during that time. But there were some things she learned from breaking those horses that was very significant. Her father taught her she couldn't show fear, she couldn't show pain and she couldn't show emotion. That's how she could break those horses. It's significant for you to know that, so you can understand how Amber could have remained in this relationship with Mr. Depp for as long as she could and the dynamics of some of the abuse you're going to hear about, because that's what would be her instinct. is to stand up and not let him show that he's caused the pain, that he's caused the fear, that he's caused the humiliation. You'll hear about a long line of jobs that Amber started from back in age 12, as soon as she could, working in a soup kitchen, well, that was volunteer, but then she took all kinds of miscellaneous jobs when she was in LA, anything that she could get.
[8:16]And she would go on, she didn't have a vehicle, so she would go on buses and she'd go up to six six different auditions in one day. She'd have a map and she'd have the bus and then she would just go around, she had a big sweater, so she could change underneath it to whatever the role was, so that she could get things. And she wasn't going for, you know, famous actor roles, she was taking one liners, she was taking extras. She was doing anything she could to make money to survive. And then you know what she did with it? She gave a bunch of it back to her parents. She started helping support them. Then when Whitney graduated from high school, she brought her out to LA and and put her house, roof over her house and put her through community college. She took care of her family with what she made. When she met Johnny Depp in 2009, when he hired her for Rum Diaries to to star across from him, she felt like she was pretty successful. She'd start in some roles. She had a, she had an apartment, she had a vehicle, a Mustang. She could go to Starbucks, she could afford Starbucks. She viewed herself as doing pretty well at that point. Now, during the Rum Diaries, she she got to know Mr. Depp, not to she was pursuing him or anything else. She was in a long-term relationship with Tasha Van Ray, and he was in a long-term relationship with Vanessa Parody. Neither of them had any kind of romantic relationship at that time. When she departed from 2000 from from the Rum Diaries in 2009, Johnny started pursuing her. In fact, he sent her a number of gifts. One of them was a guitar and she returned it. Now, two years later, fast forward, that's when the press junket started and that's when she had to come back and meet with him and they ran on the press tours. At that point, she had ended the relationship with Tasha Van Reed and he said he had ended his relationship with Vanessa Parody. So, during the press trips, that's when they started dating and by both accounts fell madly in love. She loved the side of Johnny that we see in the movies, the charismatic one, the charming one, the generous one. That's the man she fell in love with. But sadly, the monster came in the way. Um, and that monster would come out when he was drinking and and when he would take the drugs. Amber will never forget the first event of abuse. She was sitting in his house in Switzer on the sofa and he was across from her and they were talking about a tattoo that he had that had had Winona, Winona Ryder forever. He had altered that to wine forever after he broke up with Winona Ryder. Just an aside, he had Slim, which was his nickname for Amber. When they broke up, he turned it to scum. But at any event, he had that on there. And Amber thought he was making a joke when he was talking about it, and she laughed. And he up and slapped her. Now you see the rings that Mr. Depp has on him and he hurts when he slaps. And she was stunned. She she had no idea what to think. And she kind of laughed, thinking that well, maybe that was a joke, what just happened? And he slapped her again. And then she just froze and just looked and then he hit her again and this time, it knocked her right off the sofa onto the ground. And she remembers her face was in the dirty, filthy carpet. That's what she remembers and fixated on, the dirty carpet. And she's thinking, oh my God, I have to leave. I have to leave, but I love him. I have to leave, but I love him. And she sat there for the longest time. She laid there for the longest time, then Johnny came off the sofa, got on his knees, started crying, told her he was very, very sorry that he had done this, it would never happen again. And he said some very significant words, I thought I had put the monster away for good. That's what he said to her that day. Well, Amber ended up leaving that day and she went out to her car, her Mustang, and she remembers that it was cold. And she sat in the car for the longest time and she remembers watching her breath because it was cold and she was thinking, I have to leave him, but I love him. She just kept thinking that. She finally drove away. But Amber made the mistake that millions before her and millions after her have, who are victims of domestic abuse. She chose to stay and try to fix the problem and thinking that she could do that. So she stayed. Now, Amber was also, she grew up in an abusive family. Her father abused her mother and sometimes she and Whitney. So she had that cycle in there just as you've heard that Johnny had that cycle in his house. And so what's the normal to them is a little bit more difficult for than some of us can understand. You will hear witness expert witness testimony about the cycles of violence and what happens with these people. and and all the dynamics of thinking they can fix them. She thought all the way through, she could fix him if she can just get him sober and clean, then everything was going to be that wonderful side that she fell madly in love with. And she kept trying and she kept trying. She went to Alanon meetings, she went to therapists, she tried to do couples therapy. You'll you'll hear about their cape recording sessions to try to resolve fights, deescalate them so he wouldn't get mad at her for anything. Um, but you'll hear that he gets mad at her for all kinds of things. He got he didn't want her to work. Here, she's a budding actor who wants to be out there and succeed and he doesn't want her to take roles. He starts controlling what she wears. He starts looking at her lines when she tries out for places. He nixes any any romance scenes, sex scenes. Uh, he gets mad and accuses her of sleeping with every single one of her co-stars. Um, it it became a cycle of that, a control as well, emotional abuse as you go. But what's also significant in that is the property damage. And that's a hard one for Mr. Depp to be able to escape when he's claiming that he's such a docile thing and that it's all Miss Heard. You're going to see pictures, he writes on mirrors, horrible things to her, writes on lamp shades, uh, you know, on clothing, on countertops. In Australia, when you heard Ben talk about Australia, he wrote the the third day as Amber comes out after she's barricaded herself and gone through a lot, back up on that in a minute. She comes out, he's got mashed potatoes spread across the top. He's got, he's written along the wall of the staircase going down, all kinds of nasty things about her and Billy Bob Thornton, the last one she was in a co-star with and, you know, fucking ambition and all kinds of things like that. Then he's written on the lamp shades downstairs and then he's got more on the mirrors. And and then on top of it, you've got all the broken glass everywhere and you've got the liquor everywhere and and it's it's just and then he's urinated, tried to urinate messages to her. That's the Johnny Depp that's the other side. Now, you're going to hear that Amber tried to protect him all the way through. She didn't want the public to know this, she didn't want his kids to know this. And so she didn't tell people about it. So let's go back. The first event that I told you about was 2011 and how do we know that it was in 2011? Because Amber was going to her therapist, Bonnie Jacobs. And Bonnie Jacobs has therapy notes of of her sessions with Amber. And in those therapy notes, she chronicles the first time that Amber tells her that Johnny hit her. And it goes through into 2012, 2013, 2014. And you will see and you will hear from Bonnie Jacobs, her saying, you know, this is a cycle of violence, this is a cycle of abuse. You you can't enable him, you need to, you need to stand up for yourself. Amber will testify about how Johnny would get so drunk and so drugged out that he would vomit all over himself and worse, lose control of his bowels. She would clean him up. And and you'll see Bonnie Jacobs in these notes saying, don't do that, you're enabling him, don't do it. Leave him there. But what would happen was his handlers would then take care of him if she left him. So that's the story you're going to hear on that. Let me just tell you about a few of the events and I'm going to start in Australia. That's the three-day hostage. She gets there. Now, you will hear Mr. Depp testify under oath that for 15 to 18 months before the March 2015 Australia event when he's there filming, that that he's been sober, clean and sober. Then you'll see all the text messages for the last 18 months in which he's scoring drugs, in which you'll hear testimony from people in which he's gotten drunk and and and, you know, taken all kinds of different drugs. The whole time he doesn't get clean and sober. Um, but he claims that he was clean and sober that she came there, she this is a month after they just got married. She flew in from filming the Danish girls. She's there and he claims that he was just sitting there calmly and he and she was haranguing him. So he took a shot glass of vodka and when she did, when he did that, she got mad, took the bottle of vodka, was eight to 10 feet about where I am from you and hurled it at him and it happened to just take off the bottom part of his finger. And then he says she came and burned a hole in his in his cheek. The testimony is going to be that he self-mutilated on a number of occasions and burned himself on the cheek and also cut himself. But Amber never did that and you're going to hear from the experts testifying about this finger injury and how fantastic this version is. But the other part of it was, he was with Marilyn Manson for the week before, scoring on cocaine. You'll have, you'll see text messages of him getting it from his handlers, the the cocaine and the liquor. And you'll hear so much before that. But Amber gets there and instead, what he does is he takes eight to ten tablets of ecstasy, almost immediately. And the next three days are just a cycle of of very, very violent, uh, uh, activity by him. Amber keeps trying to calm him down. She tries to get him to eat, she tries to get him to sleep, she tries to do these things. And he would just at different, he was, you know, at times delusional, paranoid, he would be, you know, mad at somebody else, then he'd be mad at her. And by the way, we'll talk about the prenu, but he called her lawyer, who she had because she wanted to give him a prenup and then they got married too quickly, so she was going to give him a postnu. He called the lawyer from Australia, called her a bitch and fired her. You'll hear the testimony from the lawyer on that. Um, that's the type of Johnny Depp that was there and he didn't want the postnup, he didn't want the prenup, but now they're going to tell you that's that that it was her that was mad. You're going to hear she had a lawyer and she was cooperating completely on that. So, as you go through those three days of Australia, some pretty horrendous things happened to her. He rips off her night gown, he has her jammed up against a a bar, he has hurled bottles and bottles at her. He has dragged her across the floor on the broken bottles and the liquor. He has punched her, he has kicked her, he tells her he's going to fucking kill her. He fucking hates her. He's pounding at her, pounding her, and then he penetrates her with a liquor bottle.
[21:44]That's the Johnny Depp that you're going to hear about in this case. Now, after that, Amber goes to the airport and what does she do? She buys a book by a by a psychiatrist who's talking about couples' therapy. She's already trying to figure out a way to fix it again, fix this marriage that's only a month old and her husband has just done these horrible things to her.
[22:48]Now, they go back to to uh LA. He's got to get his finger fixed, so he has to stop filming Pirates 5. They get there and there's another fight in just two weeks from there. He's still using at this point. He's still drunk, but Amber finds on a TV screen, his his monitor, she finds pictures of another woman, naked pictures of a woman and text messages which show that he's clearly having an affair. She gets extremely mad. Amber can be jealous too, she can get angry. You know, she's half his age and, you know, she she's, you know, defiant and we're not going to say she's perfect. She was mad as can be when she saw that and she confronted him. The two of them were screaming at each other. Now her sister, Whitney, happened to be in the house. She was summoned, she literally was awakened to come and try to resolve this fight between the two of them. While she's there, Johnny starts hitting Amber, um, and Whitney ends up getting in between them. And Amber thinks that Johnny's going to throw her down, push her down the stairs because he's in that position. So Amber actually gets up and punches Johnny in the face. She'll tell you that's the only time she has ever laid one on him, you know, in an aggressive manner. But it's after he's already been hitting her and it's in defense of her sister. And she'll admit, she got him that time and she actually did have an impact on him. She'll testify about how many times they were in their fights and and she said, you know, she's almost half his size. So he, you know, she said, if I pushed him, he doesn't move. He pushes me, I go flying across the room. There there isn't any, you know, ability on her part to be the abuser. Um, what she'll also tell you is it took her a while to ever fight back. that that many times before that she would do what she did when she was breaking the horses, she wouldn't show fear, she wouldn't show pain, she would look at him, she would just be defiant. And all it would do is piss him off more. She'll tell you that she tried everything. She tried everything, you know, from trying to be nice, trying to get away from him, you know, she would throw things in his way to get him from running after her. Uh, she would she would try to, you know, flail back. She would use her hands and legs and she would go to fight him, she'd run into a room, try to barricade and push his hands and everything out of there. She tried all those things, but she couldn't figure out what could get him to calm down.
[25:54]I'm going to fast forward now to the next one and that is um, I I'm going to jump you up to after the stair incident and Johnny had to get surgery on his finger. That's the longest period of time he stayed sober. It was almost three months. You're going to hear that he has never been through rehab, even though he has been a lifelong drug addict and alcoholic. Never has he gone through a rehab plan. Instead, there's twice that he went to some New York hospital and did a cleansing. One time it was for three days and one one time it was for five days and that's it. He's never made any effort whatsoever to get sober or or stop the drugs. But this particular time he did for almost three months. And you'll see the text messages. We're going to take you through this whole story and all the text messages and all the emails and all the testimony that you're going to get. So fast forward to December 2015, that was one of the worst, Australia was pretty bad, but this one was even worse. In this particular occasion, he gets angry for some reason and he starts dragging her by her hair through the apartment, kicking her, punching her, uh, tearing her hair out. At one point, she gets up and looks at him and he headbutts her and she gets two black eyes from it. Then he goes and grabs drags her up the stairs, puts her on the bed, puts his foot and knee in the back of her and he continues to punch her, telling her he's fucking hating her and he's fucking going to kill her and he's got his boot stuck in the the bed frame. As he's doing it, and the force of what he's doing to her cause the bed frame to splinter. That's how much force. She is suffocating in the pillow and she's she believes truly she's going to die on this one. She wakes up to her friend being there. She doesn't know how long that she was unconscious or subconscious, she doesn't know, but Johnny was gone at that point and her friend saying, are you okay? Are you okay? You'll see the pictures of all of this. You'll see the pictures of the hair. Imagine how much that must hurt. The hair that's out on the ground and you'll see the pictures of Amber. Now, here's the ironic thing. The next day, she's got got to be on the James Corden show. And you can see the text messages, she's not sure if she can go, she's worried, she's got two black eyes, she's got a split lip, she's got bruising, she's got her hair missing. But her friends rally with her. She's got a makeup artist. You're going to hear from Melanie Iglesias, who does the best job of makeup you could imagine to get her through the James Corden show. Uh, and she does it. But you'll see the pictures that before and you'll see him then. And that's that's the resilient Amber who says, I'm going to go do this anyway. Now, her friends, she tells, you're going to hear about Io Tillett Wright. Um, he was in New York. She texted him and said, Johnny beat me up really good this time. Can you help? And he says, I I start I was filming something, I stopped. I I got the first flight out of there. I'm flying from New York back to LA. I see her on the James Corden show. I can see the swelling because I know her well. I can see the swelling, um, and then he said somebody touched her and she flinched on the show. Um, he said, that's not like Amber. Uh, he got there, they hadn't cleaned up all the mess. He sees the hair, he sees the splintered, he sees all of the other things and he is so upset. He was a good friend of Johnny's as well. He'll testify about all of his friendship with Johnny, but he put his foot down on that one and said, you need to have consequences. You cannot do this to Amber anymore. I am not your friend anymore. Now, there were several people that were supposed to go to Johnny's Island, Bahama's Island on in December for Christmas. He was going to bring his two kids, he had invited Amber's parents, um, who loved Johnny and unfortunately, her father used to drink and he did drugs with Johnny a lot.
