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(CNN Spanish) — The juror in the defamation case between actress Amber Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp heard testimony from a friend of the actress, Raquel Pennington, who testified that her entire inner circle referred to Johnny Depp as “the monster.”
“We called him ‘the monster,'” Pennington said on the 18th day of the hearing. When asked who she referred to as “us,” Heard’s friend replied, “All of us, me, Johnny, Amber and everyone in that inner circle who was aware of the private things that might happen.”
On the same day, Whitney Heard Henriquez, Heard’s younger sister, testified that she saw actor Johnny Depp grab Heard’s hair and repeatedly slap her in the face when they were married.
These latest statements came after Heard had testified for several days that Depp’s drug and alcohol use made him a violent “monster” towards her. Attorney Camille Vasquez, one of Depp’s legal representatives, specifically questioned Heard about his own drug use, including the fact that the couple’s 2015 wedding was scheduled for “drug time.”
“Who was the real monster in that relationship, Miss Heard?” Vasquez asked.
“He’s half Johnny. He’s not quite Johnny,” Heard replied. “The other half of him is wonderful and beautiful and the man I loved.”
This comes after Heard testified for several days that Depp’s drug and alcohol use made him a violent “freak” toward her couple’s wedding in 2015.
Heard has described her relationship with Depp as both violent and romantic, stating that his alleged violence against her was correlated to his drug and alcohol use.
“He was always the man who used drugs and hit me. Yeah, that’s always been the monster,” Heard said.
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Depp has previously testified that he has never “hit a woman” in his life.
Depp accused Heard of slandering him in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post. In the article, published about two years after their divorce, Heard described herself as a “public figure who advocates domestic violence.” Though Depp wasn’t named in the article, he claims it cost him lucrative acting roles.
Depp spent four days at the stand last month to give his own testimony, which included cross-examination.
Depp’s team closed her case on May 3.
CNN’s Sonia Moghe contributed to this report.