Amber Heard’s former friend has shed light on an unsettling comment Johnny Depp made right after the pair said “I do”.
29.04.2022 - 05:25 / perezhilton.com
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Another huge blow for Amber Heard‘s legal team — but is it more progress up an insurmountable hill?
Johnny Depp‘s bodyguard was the next to testify in the ongoing defamation trial on Thursday, and the way he tells it, the couple’s relationship was much closer to the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s version.
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Malcolm Connolly worked for Johnny for years, throughout the entire relationship with Amber. He described the beginning of the courtship as many have — “lovey-dovey” — and said Amber was “lovely” and “charming” at the start. But, he claimed, he noticed she changed at some point early on:
He said the future Aquaman star could “get a bit frosty at the drop of a hat.” But it wasn’t just her that was changing. He says he noticed Johnny shutting down, “getting quieter” the longer they were together.
Speaking to the former couple’s most private fights, he claimed he often heard Amber “screaming.” While he never saw any violence on either of the pair’s part, he says he did witness her throwing objects at him, including a cigarette lighter and a soda can.
He also saw what could be interpreted as evidence of violence. Not on Amber, he said — but on Johnny. He recalled:
He continued:
Even on his honeymoon, Connolly remembered, Johnny was walking around sporting what might have been a black eye. Depp’s team showed a photograph of Johnny, Amber, and their staff in which the Oscar nominee’s face could be seen as showing some “swelling” under the eye.
Connolly was asked for his interpretation of the injury, and he said, eliciting a laugh:
He recalled a couple days into the honeymoon Johnny was “not enjoying” it anymore and
Amber Heard’s former friend has shed light on an unsettling comment Johnny Depp made right after the pair said “I do”.
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As Johnny Depp’s personal life continues to make new headlines, his past is no different.
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UPDATE, 12:45 PM: “I will never forget it, it changed my life,” Amber Heard told a Virginia courtroom today of the first time Johnny Depp allegedly hit her in the winter of 2011.
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