Amber Heard Hit Johnny Depp With A Closed Fist The Security Guard Testified

Travis McGovern was the first witness to be called to the podium on Monday, as the high-profile defamation trial between the former rivals entered its fourth week. The guard, who recorded via live video, described how the quarrel between the couple escalated in March 2015, when Depp and Herd returned from Australia, and how he was forced to intervene when a particular argument became physical. He told the court that Depp and Herd would fight “every other night” and that Depp would occasionally invite McGovern to the penthouse he shared with Herd as he usually wanted to “get out of there.” McGovern said that while he usually tried not to listen to the couple’s quarrels, he often heard “many voices” and “F bombs” addressed to Depp. When asked what Herd would say during the altercation, McGivern sighed and said, “Oh, my love,” causing Depp to laugh. “Oh dear. It would be different, and to be honest, I tried not to pay attention. “I was there to get Mr. Depp out of there,” he said. Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s defamation trial on Monday heard the testimony of the actor’s security guard, who was forced to intervene in a nasty dispute between the two in 2015 Depp, 58, sat quietly and sometimes seemed to laugh as his bodyguard described working for the former couple. In a live video, security guard Travis McGovern described how the quarrel between the couple escalated in March 2015, when Depp and Herd returned from Australia and recalled hearing Herd eject her verbal abuse at her ex. McGovern, who appeared to be hesitant at first, then told the court that he would hear Herd make insulting remarks to Depp, calling him, among other things, a “dead father”. “I’ve heard Mrs. Herd call him a dead father – if I may say so. I apologize to the court “, he said before continuing:” The F ** king was washed away … by ** king c ** t. Say it, he launched it. “ McGivern said there were times when he intervened to oust Depp as things escalated that Herd “did not like my involvement” and at one point made it clear in a “lengthy, one-sided conversation”. “It simply came to our notice then. He called me ‘f ** king yes man. Honestly there were places [when she would say] “How would you feel if someone was involved in your relationship?” which, you know, I sympathized with, but it certainly overshadowed me and the career I chose. ” McGovern described a fight on March 23, 2015 – a few weeks after the couple’s return from Australia – that stood out in his mind. He said Depp had texted him around 4am that day asking him to go to their apartment, and McGovern said he fell on Herd in the lobby talking to security. As McGovern climbed the stairs to see Depp, Depp’s nurse, Debbie Lloyd, stayed down with Herd. McGovern said: “I was hoping to get him out of there before Mrs Herd came back because of past experiences. “When they argued that he was going to try to stop us from getting to the spot – he was holding the elevator in the past, he was trying to physically stop Mr. Depp from leaving by holding his hand. I wanted to get out of there to avoid it. ‘Mr. Depp, sitting at the front door of penthouse five, had some bags as if he were ready to go. I greeted him, I tried to get him out of there “. Herd and Depp, who have been married for just 15 months since 2015, are in the middle of an explosive trial, which is expected to end on May 19. The couple is pictured in November 2011 Heard and Depp lived together in the Eastern Columbia Building in downtown LA, where the actor had three penthouses. Heard and Lloyd arrived and all entered the penthouse. McGivern said Miss Herd was on the second floor of the penthouse, in the office. He said: “At one point I saw Mrs. Herd tossing a box of Red Bull. Mr. Depp was downstairs, which is a kitchen area. There is a middle ground, an office for Mrs. Herd and the upper level, which is closer to Mrs. Herd. ‘Lady. Heard and Whitney’s sister were in the middle and I saw Mrs. Heard throwing a box of Red Bull from her seat that hit Mr. Depp in the back. “I went closer to Mr. Depp. I did not want my client to be hit with anything else. I stood right next to Mr. Depp. The verbal attack continued, from both. Mr. Depp gave as much as he got. He was angry and upset. Mrs. Herd threw something else, a purse or a bag she had up there. I managed to hit him and he did not hit him. She spat on him. And then a lot of verbal vitriol from both of them “. Asked what Herd said, McGovern said, “Jess.” He said: “Everything and everything. There was ‘you’re af ** king washup.’ ‘You’re af ** king c ** t’, who also called her. The dead dad s ** t again. I do not remember what the quarrel was; the word f is my favorite word and they threw it to a point where I felt uncomfortable “. McGovern said Depp “was crazy, he was upset, especially after he tried to spit on him” – and he got revenge. ‘Mr. Depp went upstairs and tidied up her closet again, probably tossing down every shelf with clothes and shoes. Throw at least one of the stairs. “He was upset,” he said. Heard and her sister returned and continued the quarrel. He said: “We were at the office level, at the middle level. She was upset. Mr. Depp was upset. I felt it was time to get Mr. Depp out of the situation. I stepped in between Mrs. Herd and Mr. Depp, telling Depp we were leaving and it was no longer in his hands. “At that point out of the corner of my eye I saw a fist and a hand coming to my right shoulder and I heard and saw a closed fist coming in contact with Mr. Depp on the left side of his face.” Jack Whigham, talent director for American actor Johnny Depp, appears on screen as he testifies remotely in the courtroom at Fairfax County Circuit Court on Monday Actor Johnny Depp listens to Depp’s talent manager Jack Whigham appear on screen as he testifies remotely in the Fairfax County Circuit Court McGivern said it was Heard’s fist that hit Depp. Asked how Depp responded, he said: “The initial look on his face reflects my own, a kind of shock, where did this come from? I was not going to let Mr. Depp hit again, so they took him to the lowest level and I told him we were leaving, it was no longer in his hands, just for his safety. “I would let him be hit by a Red Bull box, I would let him be punched.” As they were leaving, Depp stepped “right in my face” and pointed to the left side of his face, saying, “It’s your fault,” McGovern said. On Depp’s face was a “nice little gloss, definitely swollen and crimson”. Later in his testimony, Depp was seen laughing as McGovern said he had seen him use marijuana “more times than I can count, every day.” Cocaine use left Depp “flattened,” McGovern testified. He also said he had never seen Depp hit Herd back during their arguments. McGivern described another brawl between Depp and Heard in April 2016 after a party for her 30th birthday at the penthouse. He said it was a “verbal dispute” and “made it clear that some phones had been thrown out the window or something.” ‘Mr. Depp was ready to leave, he had a couple of bags on his shoulders. He wanted to grab some valuables that we always grabbed when that happened, some framed letters from Hunter S. Thompson or Marlon Brando ‘, referring to the late writer and actor Depp was friends with. Under cross-examination by Herd’s lawyer, Benjamin Rothenborn, McGovern insisted that his description of the Red Bull incident was correct. Rottenborn said Depp was “spreading Amber’s hair while trying to hit her” with a plaster cast on his right finger from the incident in Australia. “That’s not right,” McGivern said. Depp has sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation in Fairfax County District Court after writing an article in the Washington Post in 2018 describing herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp and Herd appear in September 2015 in Venice, Italy – a quarrel broke out in Australia the same year McGovern said it was not right that Whitney Herd was standing between Depp and Herd because she was placed there. Rottenborn said, “Did you see Mr. Depp pushing or pushing Whitney Heard?” “Absolutely not,” McGovern said. Rottenborn said, “Only after Mr. Depp pushed Whitney did Miss Herd go ahead and punch him in the face?” “That’s not right,” McGivern said. Next to testify was Johnny Depp’s agent, who told the court that Herd’s article, published in the Washington Post in December 2018, was “disastrous” for his career. Jack Whigham said the song was “rather shocking because it was the first time I heard allegations of sexual abuse”. Testifying live via video link, Wigham was asked what impact he had on Depp’s career. He said: “In relation to Johnny, it was catastrophic because it came from a first-person account, it was not from a journalist, not from someone who was watching, it was from someone who said that this happened to me.” For the two years that followed the appearance of the op-ed Depp in “zero” studio movies, Wigham told the court. Depp did not appear in Pirates of the Caribbean 6 despite having a $ 22.5 million deal with Disney to play Captain Jack Sparrow. Monday’s third witness, Richard Marks, an entertainment lawyer who has worked in Hollywood for decades, told the jury about his assessment of the impact of Herd’s comment on Depp’s career. Disney decided to go in a “different direction” and the studio was looking to develop a “Pirates project” for actress Margot Robbie instead of playing Depp – the film has not been shot yet. Even Minimata, an independent film starring Depp, struggled after the article’s release. Wigham said: …