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Two hearsay objections into Whitney's testimony and the Judge made it very clear she's not going to hear any of Elaine's arguments anymore and sounded pissed off already. I feel like a very lengthy conversation happened where the Judge reprimanded Elaine pretty hard for that, which makes sense. It was a giant waste of time with Amber and the Judge had to be sick of it by now. Fortunately, Whitney isn't a horrific witness like Amber, so she wasn't a problem in that regard.

Whitney talks about the staircase incident and it's just literally a completely different story than anyone has said. Like entirely. It's fucking bananas. But she says Amber told her that Johnny was cheating on her. But she claims when they were arguing over it, Johnny "hurled" a Redbull can at Nurse Debbie and then says she didn't notice or react to a whole ass can being thrown at her.

Heroicly, Whitney runs up to try separating the argument. Johnny smacks her in the back, away from where she'd fall down the stairs. Amber says don't hit my fucking sister and then punches Johnny. Travis McGivirn runs up after. Johnny then grabs Amber by the hair and begins repeatedly smashing Amber in the face with his other hand, somehow with Whitney between them. Travis separates them and Whitney pulls Amber into a room and locks them in. Johnny then destroyed a bunch of Amber's stuff AFTER that, rather than before.

Like she delivered all of this fine and in a credible enough manner, but this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than anything anyone else has said. So how much are you going to believe her now?

"If anyone knows anything about Amber, it's that the things she values most are honesty and integrity. Her reputation is all she has."

Alright, nevermind. All credibility lost. Whitney was used to explain how distraught that the article she's counter-suing over (from Johnny's UK lawyer) made her.

That's literally it for her direct. This was so short, and I think that's why she wasn't allowed to talk about a ton here.

Also, the woman for Depp's team doing cross introduced herself to Whitney and said "We actually haven't met before." Welp, that means Depp's team never got the chance to depose her.

I mentioned it before, but this was a pretty masterful cross in terms of getting everything they wanted to set up concerning Whitney. They cut out any and all bullshit. They wanted her to establish her relationship with Amber, her financial situation, her relationship with Johnny, the basic details of the staircase incident, and when she was supposedly aware of Johnny beating Amber.

She says she wasn't even hurt during the staircase incident when Johnny had smacked her, and that she took all these pictures of the damage Johnny caused but not any of Amber's beaten up face. And that despite witnessing Johnny smashing her sister's face in repeatedly, she was still trying to get them to stay together, claiming she was "trying to be supportive of what her sister wanted" and that it wasn't her place to suggest they break up. Just imagine how insane that sounds. Who would do this?

The thing is, all of it is going to be destroyed by Whitney's former best friend, Jennifer Howell who will talk about how Amber routinely beat the shit out of Whitney and give the truth that she told her about the staircase incident which was that she was trying to stop Amber because she thought Amber was going to kill Johnny, and how Whitney told her that Amber blew off Johnny's finger. And they also established that they were extremely close. Basically, they didn't actually need to hear Whitney bullshit her way through answers. They don't need her to try muddling anything else. Jennifer Howell will prove Whitney is the liar she is. And there was no re-direct.

Back to boring ass video depositions with Elizabeth Marz. This is one of Rocky's friends that she brought to secretly live inside Johnny's penthouses without informing him and he told her to get off of his property. Apparently she is a "Self-Love Coach" also. These people suck. But her relevance here is that she was there the night of the last incident.

She was a vapid human who hated being asked hard questions and gave quite possibly the least convincing answers a person could possibly give and nothing about her was believable. She said that night his behavior was "frightening to her" because he stormed out of the penthouse and was "clearly wasted" but she absolutely remembered him saying "get your bitch out of here". But she was VERY afraid of him. When she was asked to elaborate on anything she struggled a lot to explain it. Also, she said Amber wore very little make-up and described her as someone who only wore make-up when she was going out for something in particular. WHOOPS TO THAT NARRATIVE.

But she did say when she went to check on Amber that night that her face was swollen. But more importantly, she is the ONLY one to claim that Amber was putting ice on her face after this before the police arrived. Gee, I wonder what happens if you put ice on your face for a while. But she also claimed her swollen face was definitely from being hit. She also couldn't tell us anything that was broken.

I mean, she was fine for Amber's case I guess? I don't know how much she helps at all.

Next up is Melanie, the French stylist for Amber. She was kind of another nothing witness. She does Amber's make-up. She was there to help with Amber's make-up for the James Corden show and maintains Amber had injuries then. She also testified to Amber's attitude before and after the divorce filing which you can guess. She also was apparently crying at this point? I dunno, it was weird but I believed it.

A month before Melanie gave this deposition, that's when she said she would no longer be friends with Amber. So yet another friend that Amber ran out of her life. She said it was because all of Amber's drama was just all-consuming and she just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

But she also maintained she never saw Johnny do anything and she went only by Amber's words. And she just got so angry during the cross too, but not iO levels. More just frustrated. But she seems even more crazy because they show her a bunch of pictures and videos of her at the James Corden Show and she asks if she can see any of the injuries on them and she kept saying yes and that you can tell her lip was swollen. Aight. She also claimed you can see a cut that wasn't there either, likely similar to Rocky's. Her deposition was before Rocky's, so I assume they asked Rocky after about it and Rocky went "Oh yeah, totally" without seeing the picture first. But she maintains she did such a great job nobody could see any injuries, but she can see them looking at the pictures. So weird.

Melanie also said she had experience covering bruises and actually making bruises with make-up. You don't say? She also said that Amber had no injuries on her after being assaulted and drug through glass the night of her birthday.

This was a fine witness for Amber, but it's still a hard sell since we have seen those pictures of her with barely any injuries for being brutally assaulted. It's weird.