Home mate states Amber Heard faked injuries for blackmail

A live-in good friend who witnessed Johnny Depp’s troubled marital relationship to Amber Heard told the Hollywood actor’s libel trial Friday the starlet fabricated her injuries in order to blackmail him.

The “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise star is taking legal action against the publisher and managing editor of Britain’s The Sun newspaper in London’s High Court over a 2018 story branding him a “spouse beater”.

The Sun says it can prove the 57- year-old abused the 34- year-old model and actress on 14 events prior to their two-year marital relationship broke down in 2017.

Depp kicked off proceedings last week by admitting he told Heard after an especially stormy encounter the two were “a crime scene waiting to occur”.

However the focus moved from the star’s supposed propensity to smash things up while high or intoxicated to Heard’s reliability as Depp’s numerous bodyguards and personnel took the stand this week.

Depp’s youth friend Isaac Baruch– an artist who lived in the couple’s 5 penthouse apartment complex in Los Angeles– stated images of Heard’s injuries dripped to the media were “phoney baloney”.

” She had actually filed a deceitful domestic violence claim to push her hand and obtain and blackmail him in the divorce,” Baruch said.

‘ Not a single contusion’

One picture in question shows the ideal side of Heard’s face around her eye covered in red markings.

But Depp’s good friend said he saw Heard from “12 inches away” the next day and her skin was clear.

” I didn’t see a single bruise, redness, mark or the red tinted cellular phone imprint that was marketed in (publications).

Attorney Sasha Wass, representing The Sun’s publishers News Group Newspapers (NGN), attempted to cast Baruch as an unreliable witness who depended on Depp for his livelihood.

She kept in mind that Depp provided Baruch totally free accommodation and 10s of thousand of dollars a year in living expenditures.

Wass also asked how Baruch might be sure Heard was not covering up her swellings with makeup.

Baruch stated he was “100 percent sure” because he saw Heard 4 more times over the next 3 days.

” I saw no marks of any kind on either side of the face,” he stated.

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‘ I concealed it’

Heard has actually been going to the hearings daily but will just go into the witness box for the very first time Monday.

She can expect to be grilled by Depp’s lawyer about whether she had staged or otherwise misrepresented any of the images of her face submitted to court.

The Sun’s attorneys stated they received a notification from Depp’s team Friday claiming that around 20 of the images had actually been “adapted or controlled”.

Depp’s attorneys stated the image Baruch was being inquired about had been “photoshopped”.

Judge Andrew Nicol agreed to look into the matter further next week.

However Wass presented an audio recording in which Heard informed among her staff that she concealed her contusions in public.

” I hid it from everybody,” Heard said in the undated recording played in court.

The case was adjourned till Monday.