FAIRFAX, Va. — Johnny Depp grew so jealous about Amber Heard’s working relationship with actor James Franco that he once attacked her on an airplane, she testified Thursday.
The couple was flying from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014 when Depp allegedly kicked Heard in the back after growing enraged about her kissing scene with Franco, 44, on the set of “The Adderall Diaries,” the actress said during her second day on the stand.
“He called me a slut,” Heard, 36, said of Depp, 58, adding that he accused her of “secretly having a thing” with Franco.
When Heard got up from her seat to move away from Depp, he allegedly started throwing things — and then slapped her face, she said.
“It didn’t hurt my face, I just felt embarrassed that he would do that to me in front of others,” Heard told the jury, adding that Depp proceeded to taunt her and call her names.
After that, Depp allegedly kicked her in the back with his boot, she testified — as her ex-husband appeared to squirm in his seat in court.
“I felt this boot in my back,” she said. “I fell to the floor. And no one said anything. No one did anything. You could have heard a pin drop.
“I just remember feeling so embarrassed that he could kick me to the ground in front of people,” she continued, “and more embarrassing, I didn’t know what to do about it.”
She added: “He hated James Franco. He was accusing me of having a thing with him in the past since I had filmed ‘Pineapple Express’ with him.”
The court previously heard about the incident when Depp was on the stand earlier in the trial. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star had denied drinking before getting on the plane, and claimed Heard had started an argument, pursuing him until he ultimately felt forced to hide in a bathroom.
But on Thursday, the jury heard a recording Heard made toward the end of the incident, in which it sounds like Depp is “howling like an animal” and babbling incoherently.
The “Aquaman” actress has alleged that she was physically, emotionally and sexually abused by Depp, who denies her allegations.
Depp is suing his ex-wife for defamation over her 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” He was never mentioned by name in the piece, but claims it clearly referenced him.
In her testimony so far, Heard has painted Depp as a jealous and vindictive partner who would take drugs and alcohol and become violent.
She told the jury Thursday that Depp punched her and possibly broke her nose in a fight after the 2014 Met Gala.
“He was accusing me of flirting with a woman. We get back to the hotel room, he shoves me and grabs my collarbone. I remember he threw a bottle at me, missed me, hit the chandelier,” she said.
“At some point, he just whacked me in the face,” Heard said of the alleged incident. “I was unsure what that feeling was but I suspected I had a broken nose. And other than that, I remember my nose being swollen and discolored.”
She also said Depp didn’t want her to work, especially if the roles she considered involved sex scenes.
“Every time I got a script, it was what kind of, you know, how I was dressing? … Did I have a sex scene?”
The actress said she stopped taking more sultry roles and would try to convince wardrobe to allow her to dress more conservatively on set.
“He would say, ‘You don’t need to work, kid. I’ll support you,’” but she wanted to work, and claimed it was part of his controlling personality.
Depp has told Heard the “only way out of this is death,” referring to the two’s relationship, and Heard said she stayed because she kept believing he might get sober.
His drug use was constant, and he was even high at the couple’s engagement party, she testified.
Heard told the jury she went through “hell” when she joined Depp in the Bahamas as he tried to detox from Roxicodone in August 2014.
She described Depp going “up and down” over the about weeklong trip — at times “screaming” and trying to flip a table that was bolted to the floor, and at others acting “calm and sweet.”
“He went up, down … mad,” she said. “He wanted to have sex a lot, which is not like Johnny at all.”
At one point, Depp said he wanted to “quit” the detox — and he allegedly got violent after Heard tried to encourage him to keep going.
“I said something to him and he got so angry at me, he slapped me across the face,” Heard testified. “He was crying, saying no woman had ever embarrassed him like that, had ever made him feel like that.”
Depp also accused Heard of hiding a man in the house, though they were staying in a cabin on his island together, she testified.
“I had no idea what that was going to look like,” Heard said of why she went on the trip. “It was hell.”
Heard told the jury that her relationship with Depp grew more abusive and volatile between 2014 and 2016, when she ultimately filed for divorce.
“I tried for over a year, maybe two, of just not responding physically, not responding verbally,” she said. “By this point in our relationship, we were both saying awful things to each other. Screaming at each other.”
