"All I have is my name — and that's exactly what he promised to take from me," Amber Heard said about Johnny Depp while testifying Monday
Amber Heard says she became "bombarded" with online harassment from Johnny Depp supporters after she filed for a domestic violence restraining order against the actor in 2016.
In the Washington Post op-ed at the center of Depp's $50 million defamation case against Heard, 36, she wrote that she'd become a "public figure representing domestic abuse" who "felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out." Though she didn't mention Depp by name, she said she "had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse."
When asked about the article on the stand Monday, Heard told the courtroom she was "proud" of it — and claimed Depp, 58, has proven her point by allegedly threatening to discredit and ruin her career because she spoke out about the abuse.
Heard, who is countersuing Depp for $100 million, said all she wanted from the divorce was for her ex to "leave me alone." She also wanted him to state publicly that she was not a liar.
"I was begging Johnny to not make me prove what I've had to sit on this stand in front of all of you and prove and talk about. I was begging not to have do this, and sit where I am sitting. I didn't want this. I don't wanna be here. ... I was trying to get him to not call me a liar, because everything that I had said to date and everything I've said to...
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