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DAY 9

This is Elaine Day for all her fans.

We start off with a member of the staff that worked on Johnny's island in the Bahamas, Tori Roberts. They had tech issues, because it was a Zoom deposition. They put up their baby associate up there for an easy witness for easy testimony. Roberts recorded a video of the place Johnny and Amber stayed in, I guess. The poor baby associate got pummeled with outrageous objections and I swear this Judge is just doing a coin flip because they never make sense, on both sides.

Baby: What was your opinion on Miss Heard when you first met her?
Tori: Well I thought she was nice--
Elaine: OBJECTION, RELEVANCE! Oh wait, nevermind.

She is another person who says Amber never had a single bruise or mark on her ever any time she saw her where she had either no make up or natural make up. They discussed a lot about the wedding ceremony there, which she helped with. She said it was kind of a rush and a mess.

The main story she told was about how one night she found Johnny in an office on the island and Amber eventually came after and kept asking Johnny to come back to the house, and Johnny didn't want to but did anyway. She said she was sorry, she didn't mean any of it, and they eventually left. Tori and someone else followed to make sure they were okay, and she said Amber was yelling and Johnny was answering back (very particular language), and that Amber was saying that he was washed up and will die a fat, lonely, old man. And Johnny said she hit him with a can. They then noticed Tori and the other person there and were shocked.

They took Johnny to the John Deere tractor which they use for transport, and Johnny sat there as Amber began screaming at him to leave and was pulling on his hair and hitting him and scratching at him. She described it as "vicious." Johnny didn't react at all and kept his arms at his side during this whole time. Tori said that when they got them apart, she saw her had a big cut on the bridge of his nose. The next morning, she said Amber looked completely fine with no bruises or injuries on her. She also said she saw a bit of a mess from the broken mineral can that was cited that Amber smashed him in the nose with prior in Johnny's testimony.

And then Elaine comes out and is just so insufferable to listen to as she tries to impeach her. It's not much. She just so obviously plays dirty, and then when she gets objected to she's so unreasonably mad. lol Baby attorney did pretty solid at it, actually, and it seemed like she threw BS ones that got sustained still. Elaine is just browbeating this poor, kind lady and coming across as so unlikeable. "Do you think that Amber would cover up her bruises to hide them from Johnny's kids?" Like excuse me? How do you ask these questions? She would get angry if they were heard. She also did a lot of "Is it true that you weren't around them 24/7 and that in one moment that you weren't around them, that Johnny could have maliciously beaten Amber?" questions most witnesses seem to get.

Probably the only big thing Elaine said was about how Jack (Johnny's son) got her to check on Johnny because he was passed out, face down in the sand once. On re-direct she said, "Yeah, he was sleeping in the hammock and fell out and I just helped him up no problem." Striking stuff Elaine.

I harp on the time spent by the Defense a lot, and it's not JUST because I feel like time is wasted and boring, but because the Judge is giving each side and equal amount of time to make their case. So the more time they spend asking Tori the Island Housekeeper about how much money she's making and a bunch of questions and these dopey leading questions nobody buys, they're taking away from time that they can be making actual tangible points elsewhere.

Next up is Dr. Shannon Curry, the IME (Independent Medical Exam) Expert who is a grossly overqualified Forensic Psychologist, who explained in depth all of the tests they use to judge someone. Basically, what happened was that Amber was bringing up psychological disorders to help make her case, including PTSD. Thus, they brought in an Expert to properly identify if she has the disorders she claimed. Confidentiality goes out the window when you start to use it in your case. Dr. Curry explained the many, many, many tests and how they work in great detail, that also has fail safes to tell if anyone is lying on them to get a different result. I won't describe it--look it up yourself if you want. She had to be reigned in a few times by the attorney because she got too excited with her shop talk and spiraled into technical babble, which is common for experts. But as far as experts like these go, she did a pretty outstanding job with it. But she had Amber do 13 hours worth of testing and pulls together any and all information from depositions, trials, etc. to help make her diagnoses.

She says that Amber has borderline personality disorder (BPD) and histrionic personality disorder (HPB). Go back and look at the moment she says this, and Amber is rolling her eyes, shaking her head, checking her nails. It was pretty amusing, especially since the camera stayed locked on her. I won't bother trying to explain what those mean, but as she described them, they were identical to how we've seen Amber acting in situations so far. Feel free to go back and listen! It's pretty interesting!

Dr. Curry also mentioned that Amber told her that she would cut her arms, and it was common with these disorders, which is likely what explains those cuts on her arms the night Johnny's finger was blown off.

She also tells a story about one of Amber's friends, Rocky Pennington. You may have seen me mention her a few times. I mentioned she was not going to be testifying, and that's because they're now former friends, and Dr. Curry told a story about how Amber was frustrated and hit her once out of anger, according to a deposition from Rocky.

She also tested Amber for PTSD, since she claims what Johnny did to her gave her PTSD. Dr. Curry states Amber did not have PTSD and said that she was grossly exaggerating symptoms of PTSD. She politely talked about how Amber tried cheating on the test without saying she cheated on it, remarking that Amber said she had 19/20 of the symptoms of PTSD on her test when even the most extreme cases of PTSD don't have more than 3-4 at most. She described Amber's nightmares she claimed to have as incredibly vague and lacking in detail most people recounting them have, but remarked she talked about having nightmares before dating Johnny Depp that were determined to be a result of childhood trauma. She also said she feigned a lot of PTSD symptoms.

I'll note that this is not the only IME Expert here, and I'm sure that the Defense is going to present their own. That should be interesting because the way Dr. Curry spoke, she came across as very credible. I'm curious to say what their Expert would say.

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