Amber Heardis detailing the alleged abuse she experienced while married to exJohnny Deppin a new court filing.
Depp’s attorney issued a statement to PEOPLE denying Heard’s new claims in the court filing.
(Heard was arrested in 2009 for an alleged domestic violence incident with then-girlfriend Tasya van Ree, though all charges against Heard were dropped. Van Ree said said in 2016 the situation was “misinterpreted” and denied any domestic abuse.)
Heard’s attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Heard and Depp, 55, were married in 2015. In May 2016, she filed for adomestic violence restraining orderagainst him, accusing him ofabusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016 for $7 million, which she donated to charity. Both actors signed NDAs barring them from discussing their relationship publicly.
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In her court filing, theAquamanactress claims Depp repeatedly hit her, ripped out her hair and choked her.
Heard claims Depp “would become a totally different person, often delusional and violent. We called that version of Johnny, ‘the Monster,’” according to the court documents.
She alleges while on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014, Depp “began to throw objects at me” due to his alleged disappointment that she had filmed a romantic scene with James Franco.
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Heard alleges that in December 2015 Depp “picked another fight with me” while in their Los Angeles apartment.
Depp has previously denied all of Heard’s previous allegations of domestic violence, saying in his defamation lawsuit that he “never abused Ms. Heard. Her allegations against him were false when they were made in 2016. They were part of an elaborate hoax to generate positive publicity for Ms. Heard and advance her career.”
Depp is suing for compensatory damages following the op-ed, as well as punitive damages for the “willfulness and maliciousness that Ms. Heard demonstrated when she knowingly published the op-ed with the false implication that Mr. Depp violently abused her.”
Page Sixfirst reported the news.
source: people.com
