Amber Heard Returns to Stand, Emotionally Describes the Death Threats She's Received As Testimony Ends

Amber Heard is taking the stand.

The 36-year-old actress returned to testify again on Thursday (May 26), where she detailed the severe trauma she had suffered throughout her defamation trial against ex Johnny Depp.

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“Even just walking into this courtroom, sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life used to humiliate me,” Amber said. “People want to kill me and they tell me so every day. People want to put my baby in the microwave and they tell me that. Johnny threatened, promised me that if I ever left him, he’d make me think of him every single day I lived.” Back in July 2021, the Aquaman star shared she welcomed a baby girl, Oonagh Paige Heard, via surrogate.

She went on to describe the daily panic attacks she had experience and claimed she was unable to maintain a career due to the legal drama.

“I woke up every day with panic attacks until I realized I could do something about it. I’m not a saint. I’m not trying to present myself as one but I selfishly found relief in using what I live through to give a voice to people who don’t have a voice. I would not wish this situation on my worst enemy. As I stand here today, I can’t have a career, I can’t have people associate with me and I can’t do charity work.”

“I’m not sitting in this courtroom snickering,” she continued, seemingly referencing viral clips of Johnny laughing during the court proceedings. “I’m not sitting in this courtroom laughing and making snide jokes. This is horrible. This is painful and this is humiliating for any human being to go through. Perhaps it’s easy to forget that I’m a human being.”

She added, “I don’t deserve this. The attacks on me, the campaign that Johnny has elicited millions of people to do on his behalf, torture me.”

This marks the sixth and final week of the former couple’s trial, with both Amber and Johnny‘s legal teams having rested their cases. Closing arguments will start on Friday and the judge has said that jury deliberations may begin on Friday afternoon. If no verdict is reached, deliberations would continue until Tuesday.

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