Bredehoft told the court: “She loved the side of Johnny that we see in the movies, the charismatic one, the charming one, the generous one, that’s the man she fell in love with.
“But sadly, the monster came in the way. And that monster would come out when he was drinking and when he would take the drugs.”
Elsewhere, the court heard how Depp would have another hotel room booked for him when the pair travelled together, so he would have somewhere to go when Heard became ‘enraged’.
Heard opening: #AmberHeard never wanted to unearth to the public who the real #JohnnyDepp is but that's going to all come out at this trial. The violent side of Depp who he described as "the monster". @LawCrimeNetwork pic.twitter.com/castL2IHAC
— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) April 12, 2022
Bredehoft also mentioned an incident where Depp allegedly pulled Heard’s hair, dragged her up the stairs and hit her during a three-day blackout in Australia.
Lawyers for Depp told the jury that he will ‘go to his grave knowing that whatever he does there will always be people who believe he abused a woman’, and that Heard ‘took on the role of a lifetime and couldn’t back down’.