How did they get here? A complete timeline of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's relationship

Actor Johnny Depp took to the stand this week to testify in the ongoing libel case against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Giving evidence Depp told the court he has suffered for six-years due to Heard's actions and his career has deteriorated as a direct consequence.

“My goal is the truth because it killed me that all these people I had met over the years ... that these people would think that I was a fraud,” the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star added.

In long, meandering answers the actor flatly denied hitting Heard and attributed vulgar text-messages he sent to her (and on which some of her allegations hinge) to a verbal style he picked up from the late writer Hunter S. Thompson.

Depp also claimed that Heard, who he married in 2015, went from a loving and caring wife to someone who constantly berated and attacked him, leading him to on occasion hide from her in a locked bathroom.

What is the libel case about?

The case rests on an op-ed for the Washington Post written in 2018 in which Amber Heard described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”

Depp was not explicitly mentioned but claims the piece implicates him because it refers to past accusations Heard made when she sought a restraining order against him.

Early on it was established that the trial was likely to be extremely acrimonious with Heard’s lawyer saying it would become a “mudslinging soap opera”.

Heard’s account will be heard later in the six-week trial, with only the prosecution putting their case so far but the defence claims that Depp is unable to account for his actions in the relationship due to alcohol and drug use, as well as asserting that Heard was entitled to describe herself the way she did due to her First Amendment right to free speech.

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