Amber Heard details fights, accuses ex-husband Johnny Depp of physical, sexual abuse in second day of testimony
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Editor's note: Some testimony may contain graphic language and descriptions of sexual and physical assault.
Johnny Depp surrounded himself with an entourage of enablers to shield him from the consequences of his drug and alcohol use, Amber Heard testified as she returned to the stand Thursday, her second day of testimony in the civil trial for the $50 million libel lawsuit filed by her ex-husband.
Depp is suing Heard for libel over a December 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post she wrote describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." His lawyers say he was defamed by the 2018 article even though it never mentioned his name.
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