Editor’s be aware: Some testimony could comprise graphic language and descriptions of sexual and bodily assault.

Johnny Depp surrounded himself with an entourage of enablers to protect him from the results of his drug and alcohol use, Amber Heard testified as she returned to the stand Thursday, her second day of testimony within the civil trial for the $50 million libel lawsuit filed by her ex-husband.

Depp is suing Heard for libel over a December 2018 op-ed in The Washington Submit she wrote describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His attorneys say he was defamed by the 2018 article despite the fact that it by no means talked about his identify.

Heard informed jurors about pictures she took of Depp beginning in 2013 during which he was handed out. She stated she took the pictures as a result of Depp could not keep in mind what he’d completed when he was drunk, and denied what had occurred whereas he was blacked out.

“He would not keep in mind, or he would deny it. There was nobody to again me up,” she stated.

She additionally gave her description of an incident that has already come up at trial, a Might 2014 airplane experience from Boston to Los Angeles. In line with Heard, Depp was jealous and irate that she was making a film with actor James Franco that included a kissing scene.

“He hated, hated James Franco,” she stated.

As quickly as Depp stepped into the personal airplane, he started berating her about Franco, she stated. She bought up and walked away, however Depp adopted her. At one level, she stated he slapped her. Later, she stated, he kicked her, and never one individual onboard intervened on her behalf.

“I felt this boot in my again,” she stated. “I fell to the ground. And nobody stated something. Nobody did something. You may have heard a pin drop. I simply keep in mind feeling so embarrassed.”

Depp, who testified earlier within the trial, described the incident in a different way. He denied that he’d drank excessively earlier than getting on the airplane, and stated Heard initiated an argument and pursued him till he felt compelled to cover in a rest room.

However jurors heard a recording Heard made towards the tip of the incident, during which it appears like Depp is howling and babbling incoherently. And the jury has seen a textual content message Depp despatched his good friend Paul Bettany shortly after the flight, during which he says he’ll “correctly cease the booze factor” as a result of the flight bought “ugly.” He additionally texted Bettany saying, “I am admittedly too f— within the head to spray my rage on the one I really like for little motive as effectively.”

Heard has testified that she was bodily and sexually assaulted on a number of events by Depp, usually when he was drunk or excessive on medication. Depp has denied ever hitting her, however Heard’s attorneys have stated his denials lack credibility partly as a result of he cannot keep in mind what he is completed when he blacks out.

Depp has stated Heard enormously exaggerates his ingesting, and that he tolerates his liquor effectively. Buddies, household and staff of Depp have taken the stand and backed up his competition.

However Heard stated that is a part of the issue: She stated Depp has a staff round him that cleans him up when he will get sick, and allows him to go about his enterprise with out acknowledging the results of his ingesting.

Heard is predicted to be on the stand all day Thursday in Fairfax County Circuit Court docket.