Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Committed Mutual Abuse Says Couple’s Therapist

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were engaged in a mutually abusive relationship, according to the former couple's therapist who testified in court. Depp and Heard have been embroiled in a contentious legal battle for years now. The two met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2011 and married in 2015. A year later, Heard filed for divorce and accused Depp of domestic violence. This led to several other lawsuits, such as Depp bringing a libel case against the British tabloidThe Sun for an article that referred to him as a "wife beater."

Depp is currently suing Heard for publishing a Washington Post op-ed in 2018 in which she, without explicitly naming Depp, detailed being a victim of domestic abuse prior to her divorce in 2016. The high-profile defamation trial began earlier this week and since then, each side has come out with explosive accusations against the other. Heard has accused her ex-husband of sexual assault, while Depp's lawyers maintain that Heard falsified the abuse allegations in order to advance her career.

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Now, the latest development to come out of the ongoing defamation trial is from Laurel Avis Anderson’s testimony, a therapist who worked with the couple in 2015. During the trial, Anderson testified to jurors that the former couple engaged in "mutual abuse" and that Depp could be "triggered" by Heard. Read a portion of Anderson's testimony below, per Variety:

I thought he had been well controlled. With Ms. Heard, he was triggered. They engaged in what I saw as mutual abuse.

During her testimony, Anderson revealed additional details about the couple's therapy sessions, which took place in late 2015. These counseling sessions were often highly