Amber Heards former personal assistant has accused the actor of stealing her own experience of being a victim of sexual violence and twisting it into a different story.
In evidence given remotely from Los Angeles, Kate James also said she had regularly received a barrage of drunken, abusive and incoherent text messages from Heard between 2am and 4am.
James was answering questions during the libel trial brought by Heards ex-husband Johnny Depp, 57, who is suing the Suns publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor Dan Wootton over an article that called Depp a wife beater and referred to overwhelming evidence that he had attacked Heard.
In her second witness statement to the court, James said she had been the victim of rape in Brazil when she was in her twenties and that the experience had haunted her ever since.
When she read Heards submissions, James said, to my utter shock and dismay, I discovered that Ms Heard had in fact stolen my sexual violence conversation with her and twisted it into her own story to benefit herself. This of course caused me extreme distress and outrage that she would dare to attempt to use the most harrowing experience of my life as her own narrative.
James told the court that although she had been subpoenaed to give evidence, she was doing so because she is a sexual violence survivor and its a very serious to take that stance if you are not one
Referring to Heards drinking habits, James said in a witness statement: Amber would drink vast quantities of red wine each night.
In court, questioned by Depps counsel David Sherborne, James added: I would receive a barrage of drunken text messages between 2am and 4am that were incoherent and abusive.
In a final comment, James said Heard was probably the least known person she had been employed by in Hollywood.
Earlier the court was told by Depps former butler that Heard often drank a bottle or two of wine a night when she was with Depp, and she was the antagoniser in the relationship
