Taking Sides Which Celebrities Are Backing Amber Heard And Who Is On Team Depp
The South African-born tycoon has denied he had a relationship with Heard before her divorce from Depp, but the court heard he texted her regularly and promised to provide her with security 24/7.
Depp’s lawyer, Eleanor Laws QC, read out a text from Musk to Heard, which referred to the offer of providing security: “The offer would stand, even if you never wanted to see me again… anyway, sorry for being an idiot. The radio silence hurts a lot. It only matters because I really like you.”
In the first week of the trial Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman said: “Last week Elon Musk publicly stated his relationship with Amber Heard did not start until late June 2016. These messages between Miss Heard and Mr Musk profoundly contract Musk’s statement that he ‘wasn’t ever in the vicinity of Amber during their marriage’.”
The SpaceX enterpreneur has also denied being involved in a three-way love triangle with Heard – who is bisexual -and Cara Delevingne.
The trial also heard James Franco was seen on CCTV footage arriving at the couple’s Los Angeles apartment while Depp was away.
Franco, 42, also did not give evidence or a witness statement but Heard described the visit on 22 May 2016.
She claimed she had facial injuries after Depp threw a phone at her during a row about faeces found in the marital bed, which Depp claimed she was responsible for.
Heard said: “We were talking. He was saying to me, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’. He saw my face … when I let him in. He saw my face, and he said, ‘What the f***?’ ”
On Friday, 24 July, Heard’s acting coach Kristy Sexton gave a witness statement in which she said: “Amber is a very open, passionate, committed and generous person. She works hard and is very committed to her career.”
She said she met Depp several times and “noticed him speaking in dismissive terms about her work”.
> Ms Sexton said: “I overheard him saying to her a few times words to the effect of ‘if you aren’t going to do something great and huge then I don’t want you doing it’…She told me he was particularly concerned about her taking roles involving sexuality and/or sex scenes.”
> Later in her statement Ms Sexton said: “She started telling me that he was accusing everyone of being in love with her and accusing her of wielding her sexuality all the time…She told me he was worried about her having affairs with co-stars. She started telling me that she couldn’t do certain roles because he didn’t want her doing ‘whore parts’.”
She added: “By the end of their relationship, she was not working much and she explained to me that she had stopped taking on so much work because it just wasn’t worth the fights.”