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Topics: Amber Heard, Johnny Depp
Aisha Nozari
Never-before-seen text messages in which Amber Heard alleged Johnny Depp abused her have been revealed.
On Friday, 17 June, Heard’s full Dateline interview with Savannah Guthrie aired, and during the NBC special, text messages allegedly sent from Heard to her father and therapist were made public.
Heard’s legal team also gave NBC access to a binder full of her therapist's notes, dating back to 2011, that she claims to be evidence of Depp’s abuse.
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In one text, dated 16 December 2015, Heard wrote to who she claims was her therapist: “Johnny did a number on me tonight. I’m safe and with my support tonight but I need some real help.
“Can I come tomorrow. I called earlier because I thought I had a concussion and didn’t know if I should have called police. But I have a nurse close to me.”
Heard also showed Guthrie and her team another message, from 2014, that she said was sent to her father around the time Depp allegedly kicked her on an airplane.
The text read: “I keep not fighting back. He literally kicked me and called me a [redacted] in front of everyone on the plane. It’s humiliating.”
Heard also told Guthrie she’d been reporting Depp’s alleged abuse to her therapist since 2011, four years before the stars wed, and according to The Independent, NBC’s reporting team confirmed this.
According to Guthrie, therapist notes from January 2012 said Heard told her doctor that Depp 'hit her, threw her on the floor'.
Further notes from 2013 claimed that 'he threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her'.
The binder was not allowed to be entered into evidence as it was considered hearsay.
Depp’s team released a statement to NBC regarding Heard’s claims without mentioning her by name.
“It’s unfortunate that while Johnny is looking to move forward with his life, the defendant and her team are back to repeating, reimagining and re-litigating matters that have already been decided by the Court and a verdict that was unanimously and unequivocally decided by a jury in Johnny’s favour," they said, as the New York Post reports.
Heard’s team responded: “If Mr Depp or his team have a problem with this, we recommend that Johnny himself sit down with Savannah Guthrie for an hour and answer all her questions.”
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