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Follow the New York Post’s up-to-the-minute coverage of Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard as Heard continues her testimony. For the latest updates, click here.

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'I lost a piece of myself': Heard tells the jury of abuse

By Elizabeth Rosner

“I lost a piece of myself,” a somber Amber Heard told the jury toward the end of her day-long testimony.

Amber Heard testified that she lost "a piece of [her] self-confidence" over Johnny Depp's alleged abuse.
Amber Heard testified that she lost "a piece of my self-confidence" over Johnny Depp's alleged abuse. REUTERS

The actress said “a piece of my self-confidence” was taken by Depp’s alleged abuse “for every single time I went back or allowed him back.”

“It was easier to stay,” Heard added. “I didn’t want to stay in the violence, I wanted to stay in the good Johnny that I loved.”

She said Depp claimed he would get sober again after a particularly brutal Dec. 15, 2015, fight.

“I just decided to believe him,” she said. “This time was the last time because it couldn’t be worse than this, right?”

Court wrapped a little after 5:30 p.m. after Amber Heard’s day-long testimony.The trial will be on break from Friday through May 16, when Heard will be back on the stand.

Heard: Depp threatened to kill me over Christmas

By Elizabeth Rosner

Amber Heard told the jury that Johnny Depp threatened to kill her when she was on his island in the Bahamas spending Christmas 2015 with him and his kids.

"'If you ever embarrass me in front of my kids, I'll f---ing kill you,'" Heard recalled Depp telling her.

"I knew I needed to get away from him," she continued, "and at some point, I ran."

Heard: Depp broke our bed while beating me up

By Elizabeth Rosner

Johnny Depp broke the bed that the couple slept on while "beating me up," Amber Heard said Thursday.

Amber Heard testified that Johnny Depp broke a bed while “beating [her] up” in December, 2015.
Amber Heard testified that Johnny Depp broke a bed while “beating me up” in December 2015. Fairfax County

The incident, she said, took place during a Dec. 15, 2015, fight in which he allegedly busted her lip, gave her two black eyes and pulled out chunks of her hair.

"That's the bed that Johnny broke while on top of me," Heard said after she was shown a photo of the bed in court.

Court shown photos of Heard's 'ripped out hair chunks'

By Elizabeth Rosner
Amber Heard testified that Depp "ripped out hair chunks" from her head and threw them on the "floor all over the place."
Amber Heard testified that Depp "ripped out hair chunks" from her head and threw them on the "floor all over the place." Fairfax County

Amber Heard said Johnny Depp ripped out chunks of her hair during a fight in December 2015, dragging her and punching her.

"My head was bleeding from the ripped-out hair chunks of hair on the floor all over the place," she said.

The court was presented a photo of Heard with a busted lip and two black eyes in the aftermath of the alleged attack.

Heard testified that her "head was bleeding" after Depp allegedly ripped her hair out.
Heard testified that her "head was bleeding" after Depp allegedly ripped her hair out. Fairfax County
Amber Heard testified that Depp "ripped out hair chunks" from her head and threw them on the "floor all over the place."
Amber Heard testified that Depp busted her lip and gave her two black eyes. Fairfax County

"He busted my lip when he punched me," she told the jury.

'This is how I die,' Heard thought of alleged Depp beating

By Elizabeth Rosner

Johnny Depp allegedly beat Amber Heard so badly in December 2015, she remembers thinking she was going to die, the actress told the jury.

"I thought, 'This is how I die,'" Heard testified. "'He is going to kill me and he won't even have realized it.'"

"I just could hear myself scream until I couldn't hear myself anymore. I could just hear him say he was going to kill me," she said. "And that he sounded like an animal in pain when he was saying ... he fucking hated me."

Heard: I punched Depp to protect my sister

Amber Heard told the court she punched Johnny Depp square in the face out of fear he was about to push her sister Whitney down the stairs.

Heard said she and her then-husband had been fighting on the mezzanine of the staircase in one his many penthouses and her sister got in between them.

"I remembered what happened to Kate Moss," she said, referencing the claim that Depp once pushed the model down a flight of stairs.

The actress said it was the first time she had ever "landed" a hit on Depp, and after she punched him, he just started laughing. Security ultimately intervened.

Depp's witnesses and the actor himself testified about the same moment a few weeks earlier, claiming Heard instigated the attack and Depp did nothing in return.

Court shown pics of bloodstained furniture

By Elizabeth Rosner
Blood stains on the couch after Johnny Depp allegedly physically abused Amber Heard in Australia in 2015.
Bloodstains on the couch after Johnny Depp allegedly physically abused Amber Heard in Australia in 2015. Fairfax County

The court was shown photos of bloodstains all over the house that Amber Heard and Johnny Depp rented in Australia in March 2015 -- after a vicious fight in which the actor was left with a severed finger.

The images showed blood on a duvet cover, on a sofa, on white sheets and on one of the guitars Depp tried to play.

Depp's blood-stained guitar.
Depp's bloodstained guitar. Fairfax County
Blood on a duvet cover.
Blood on a duvet cover. Fairfax County
Blood stains where Depp allegedly slammed the end of a bottle into a wall.
Bloodstains where Depp allegedly slammed the end of a bottle into a wall. Fairfax County
A broken lamp after the night Johnny Depp allegedly attacked, sexually assaulted, and threatened Amber Heard in Australia.
A broken lamp after the night Johnny Depp allegedly attacked, sexually assaulted and threatened Amber Heard in Australia. Fairfax County

Other photos also showed a broken lamp and an area where Depp allegedly slammed the end of a bottle into a wall.

Stains cover a wall in the Australian home that Depp rented in 2015.
Stains cover a wall in the Australian home that Depp rented in 2015. Fairfax County

Heard: Depp cheated on me with an old flame

By Elizabeth Rosner

When Johnny Depp passed out with his iPad on his lap, Amber Heard discovered texts on the tablet to another woman with whom he was cheating on her, she testified.

"He was texting this woman that he had a relationship on and off ... The date was right after our wedding. I had seen that he had gone to her house after our wedding." Heard said.

"I freaked out," Heard said, after finding the texts. "I immediately confront him about it. ... I didn't care in this moment if he did kill me."

It is unclear who the other woman was whom Depp was apparently seeing.

Heard describes photos of trashed house after assault

By Elizabeth Rosner

Amber Heard was shown photos of the house she and Johnny Depp rented while in Australia -- which he allegedly trashed during a drunken rampage where he also assaulted her.

One image showed an area of the bar where Heard said Depp had grabbed her by the throat and started "bashing me against the wall."

Another photo showed an area with a broken window. Heard also said that Depp smashed her phone to bits, which is how she believes he severed his finger.

Scenes from the incident
Fairfax County
Scenes from the incident
Fairfax County
Scenes from the incident
Fairfax County

After the attack, she said, Depp was holed up in another part of the home blaring Marilyn Manson music.

She was shown an image of a game table, testifying that it collapsed "when Johnny threw me into it and got on top of me. Or fell on top of me. I honestly don't remember which one."

Heard was also shown of a photo of paintings that she says Depp destroyed, including one artwork she was working on with his daughter, Lily-Rose Depp.

"He was covered in paint," she said of Depp.

Heard describes being abused with bottle

By Elizabeth Rosner

"I can't believe I have to do this," Amber Heard said on the stand when her lawyer Elaine Bredehoft asked if Johnny Depp penetrated her vagina with a liquor bottle all the way to her pubic bone.

"I'm so sorry," Bredehoft said.

Heard said Depp shoved the bottle inside her over and over again, and testified she was bleeding from her vagina in the aftermath of the alleged incident in Australia in 2015.

Amber Heard
Amber Heard Reuters
Bottles found at the scene of the incident.
Bottles found at the scene of the incident. Fairfax County

Heard: Depp 'ran out of blood' writing messages on walls

By Elizabeth Rosner

Johnny Depp wrote so many messages with the blood spewing from his severed fingered that "it looked like he had run out of blood," Amber Heard testified.

"He wrote on the back of a pillow with blood," she said, noticing the brown color of dried blood, along with writing on the mirrors and walls.

BOTTLE, PING PONG TABLE, BROKEN BOTTLES, CANS, EXHIBITS
Fairfax County
Fairfax County

When he ran out of blood, it looked like he got paint, she said.

She also testified that there was food around the entire home the couple rented in Australia, including pieces of steak in her clothes.

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