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DAY 8

I lost a lot of this, so I'm going to try and hit the most important stuff. Sorry for the brevity with the rest of the cross exam.

Firstly, this was a disaster. But it started strong. They play a few clips of Johnny calling Amber a fat ass, See You Next Tuesday, and something else. They should have included this sooner.

They play another audio where Rottenborn claims that Amber was yelling "get off me!" and he said "No, but I did hear me in the distance saying 'See you later.'"

They use bad faith texts that say "hit" in them like they got their intern to search for anything with the word hit in them. Like stuff where "I hit a wall in my argument with Amber last night." When it's obvious to anyone he's referring to the argument getting nowhere, not literally hitting a wall. It was all so tiresome.

The most embarrassing part of all of this came, and I cannot believe the Judge let this in. Rottenborn pulled up a bunch of articles from before Amber wrote her op-ed from bullshit magazines and tabloids that were negative after questioning Johnny about whether or not he's had negative articles written about him before Amber, to which he was like yes because I've been in the industry for decades. So he reads off a bunch of shitty articles that are laughably bad. Everyone in the courtroom is trying not to laugh. Depp outright calls them hit pieces and says "These are all dreck, sir. This is a pathetic attempt." At the end he just asks how the author knows.

They show the paper article again and Johnny says he has never seen this and is suing for the one published prior, and they changed the title to avoid repercussions. It was stricken, obviously, but the jury heard it. What comes after this is a deluge of bad faith questions Rottenborn asks to try getting his narrative across, which was the right thing to do. But they successfully objected to 90% of the questions in. He asked about why he didn't fight the restraining order, why he's suing, the article, why he's not suing Washington Post, the Sun lawsuit, and other things. God, if you were the jury you see him get this many objections in a row, you just don't think he's acting in good faith at all. I feel this backfired. Amber Heard looked incensed during this, giving glares at the Judge and like she was holding back an explosion. It was wild.

So if you were the jury and bought any of that "You were suing over THIS article, right?" bullshit, the online article Johnny Depp keeps asking about? On re-direct, the first thing they do is put that online article up that has the headline "Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence -- I faced society's wrath. That has to change." So they proved that Heard's team is just acting in bad faith even more by peddling that newspaper article printed days later. Just brilliantly dismantled all of their work they put into that. They reiterate that Disney ejected him from the Pirates franchise days later.

If there's one drawback of Johnny Depp, I think I mentioned before he has ADHD and meanders away from the question a lot, and his memory is absolute shit and he doesn't know what films he did when. Just a side note since I'm shaking my head at some of the re-direct as they try to reign him in. She had to remind him he was a part of the Fantastic Beasts franchise ffs.

Then they talk about Amber Heard's absolute hatred of Paul Bettany, who is one of Johnny's closest friends. Depp says Amber felt he was a threat for his time with her. As it turns out, Paul Bettany's family visited Johnny and Amber on their island one day, Amber and Paul got into an argument and Amber got extremely heated, loud, and mean, and Paul's 18 year old boy spoke up since he had been studying the topic of conversation in school and was knowledgeable about it, and Amber screamed and berated this kid until he cried. Just unbelievable. And then Johnny had Amber flown OFF the island and told her she couldn't treat people that way. This tracks with the many times that he's said that throughout his testimony. "You can't always be right. You should try being wrong sometime. You might learn something."

He explains that awful witch set of texts he sent to Paul Bettany as a Monty Python joke and just dark humor. He also had to explain clear jokes in some texts like when he said he drank 1,000 red bulls and vodka, having to say "I mean I'd be dead if I did that."

They also linked Johnny being stuck with Amber's abuse to the abuse his mother gave him too, which was an exceptional thing to do. Overall, re-direct was outstanding and just blew up anything the cross tried to do because... it's just so easy to explain it all with a little bit of context, which they didn't allow.

He elaborated he said his finger was caught in the accordion door because he didn't want to put Amber in that position, himself, his children, or the movie in the position to have the domestic abuse stuff hanging over it.

I can detail a lot of these, but I think I've explained why a lot of them are bullshit and just common sense and context prevails.

They have an audio recording of Amber screaming for COUCH! Which I guess is their word to sit down and talk. And she sounded very, very drunk and said "And you just threw a fucking cigarette at me!" Johnny explained he just flicked ashes of a cigarette out, and would never, ever flick it at her and said she was certainly not yelling in pain or anything. This is a trend of Amber sounding hysterical or making up claims of abuse, especially when the audio is running.

There's another clip they play of Amber arguing with Johnny as he's trying to leave her, including taking off his ring. She sounds absolutely out of her mind here. Johnny seems calm for the most part. She basically begs and forces him to stay throughout it, while also being evasive while the recording is on when he remarks his ear is ringing still. Because apparently she slapped him hard on the side of the head.

Another clip is played where Amber is telling him that he can't walk away from an argument ever because it gives her so much stress and that she thinks she's going to die from stress if she keeps doing that to her because it hurts so bad and that she's killing him by walking away. She sounds very drunk here too.

Depp's attorney brings up the audio that they played the other day with the knife and Amber telling him not to cut himself. They didn't play it again for obvious reasons. He explained the situation was that Johnny was reached out to by Amber's one agent to talk under the pretenses they would discuss her retracting her statement and coming clean about the lies she told. He said he wasn't threatening to hurt himself. He said he held out a knife to her and told her to cut him, and take his blood, since she took everything else from him. And she said she refused to and that he would have to do it himself. And he said he was actually thinking about it because psychologically he was at his end and broken from it all. He re-iterated that at no point was there any threat against Amber with that knife. He also said that he knew it was Rottenborn's job, but he found it quite cruel... and then he was rightfully objected to and cut off.