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Amber: Trolls want to put my baby in the microwave

From Daniel Bates in New York

AMBER Heard broke down in tears last night as she told a jury how fans of ex-husband Johnny Depp threatened her and her child’s life as a result of the pair’s bitter court battle.

The actress told the $100million [£80million] defamation trial he subjected her to ‘global humiliation’ leading to daily death threats, including sick internet trolls who said they would ‘put my baby in the microwave’.

Through sobs, Miss Heard said she is so traumatised by five years of alleged beatings and abuse by the Pirates of the Caribbean star that she wakes up every morning screaming.

Her emotional testimony came on the last day of evidence at the court in Fairfax, Virginia, with closing arguments due today. Miss Heard, 36, was recalled to the stand by her own lawyers in the final stage of the six-week trial, where they challenged Depp’s claims. ‘I am harassed, humiliated and threatened every single day,’ she said. ‘People want to kill me and they tell me so every day. People want to put my baby [13-month-old Oonagh] in the microwave and they tell me that.’

Miss Heard said that every day her ‘hands shake, I wake up screaming’, adding: ‘Even if I’m training for a movie, Aquaman, a combat scene, trigger happens and I have a meltdown. I just want Johnny to leave me alone.’

Depp, 58, sued his ex-wife for $50million [£40million] over a column she wrote in the Washington Post saying she survived domestic abuse. She countersued for $100million claiming she had been left a ‘pariah’ by ‘smears’ from his lawyers.

During cross examination, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez raised the testimony of supermodel Kate Moss, who told the court via video link on Wednesday that, contrary to a rumour, Depp never pushed her down the stairs during their years as a couple.

Miss Heard said: ‘I knew people would come out of the woodwork to support Johnny. That’s his power.’

Asked by one of her lawyers to describe the effect of Depp’s pursuit of her, she replied: ‘Johnny promised me he would ruin me, that he’d ruin my career, he’d take my life from me, death was the only way out. He promised me global humiliation.’

LITTLE JOHN

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