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‘My goal is the truth’ – Johnny Depp tells court he’s never hit a woman
Actor Johnny Depp has taken the stand in his $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard
The Pirates of the Caribbean star denies any abuse on his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The lawsuit is over an opinion piece Heard wrote for the Washington Post, calling herself a victim of domestic violence.
The closely-watched civil trial, which is taking place in Virginia, is now in its second week.
Heard’s team has portrayed Depp as an abusive partner prone to drug and alcohol binges.
Meanwhile, Depp’s team has presented Heard’s claims of domestic violence as a “hoax”
Speaking to the jury, Depp says that he wants to stand up for his family, children and all that matters to him, is the truth.
“I wanted to stand up for my family, my children. My goal is the truth because it killed me that people that I had met over the years would think that I was a fraud. That I had lied to them.”
DEPP TELLS THE JURY
He says he never struck any woman in his life and described how people’s attitudes towards him changed after her op-ed was published.
Lawyers for Depp have accused his ex-wife, who is also an actor, of giving the “performance of her life” in her descriptions of alleged abuse.
His lawyer went on to ask him to describe his childhood in Kentucky, and the abuse that he suffered from his mother.
“It’s been six years of trying times – so strange when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds, you’re Quasimodo,”
DEPP TELLS THE JURY
The jury has heard evidence presented by the celebrity ex-couple’s former therapist, as well as from medical workers who treated Depp as he was detoxing himself from opiates.
The trial is expected to last at least six weeks, and jurors have so far been presented with duelling accounts of Mr Depp and Ms Heard’s relationship.
Ms Heard is also expected to testify later in the trial.
Today is a historic milestone for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, they have viewed the first official joint portrait of themselves
On a visit to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, the portrait was unveiled to the future king and queen consort.
The portrait, painted by award-winning British portrait artist Jamie Coreth, has gone on display at the University of Cambridge.
When William saw the work of art he immediately said ‘It’s quite big’
The artwork of Prince William and Catherine was commissioned last year by the Cambridgeshire Royal Portrait Fund as a gift to the people of the county.
The artist said he wanted to portray the royal couple as “relaxed and approachable”
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