Johnny Depp’s legal team claim picture showing Amber Heard’s bloodied lip is ‘fake’

Johnny Depp’s authorized group have claimed a photograph of Amber Heard's bloodied lip are ‘pretend’.

Johnny and Amber are at the moment in court docket combating a multimillion greenback libel case as he sues his ex-wife for defamation, and she or he countersues.

Attorneys representing Aquaman actress Amber submitted a photograph of her with a bloodied lip and a message on paper regarded as written by Johnny.

Nonetheless the decide is not going to embody the submission within the case after agreeing that it was not provided up in time.

Johnny Depp's defamation trial in opposition to actress and ex-wife Amber Heard has now been placed on maintain for the week (Picture: POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs)

The image is now stated to be from 2012, which is a 12 months after Amber claimed the primary violent incident within the relationship befell.

TMZ web site, who've the picture, had been informed by an insider that Amber had a "mix-up" in her dates.

Her spokesperson informed Metro : "The panicked Depp’s group is combating tooth and nail to stop compelling proof of abuse and pictures corresponding to this from being launched.

"They proceed their shedding technique: distract the jury and demonise the defendant."

Amber informed the court docket final week of the second she was allegedly attacked by Johnny.

She stated: "I used to be in considered one of these fights. I imagine it’s this one, in his downtown ECB, we name it, loft, and we’re within the kitchen front room space and he backhands me.

"He wears a whole lot of rings. I bear in mind simply feeling like my lip went into my tooth, and it acquired slightly blood on the wall.

"Simply that straightforward, slightly little bit of blood on the wall."

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny is searching for $50million (£39m) in damages within the libel case after Amber wrote a column within the Washington put up in 2018, the place she talked about being a sufferer of home abuse.

Though Johnny was not named within the piece, his attorneys argued that it implies she was bodily and sexually abused by him throughout their marriage – which he denied.

Amber is countersuing for $100million (£81m), claiming that he libelled her by calling her a liar.

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