Amber Heard had asked her former talent agent to share apologetic notes she'd written to Johnny Depp over a year after they called it quits, the jury was told at the former couple's defamation trial.

As part of a pre-taped deposition, Christian Carino - a talent agent who had previously represented both the Aquaman actress and Pirates of the Caribbean star for Creative Artists Agency - shared alleged details pertaining to the ongoing case.

According to text messages between Heard and Carino, the actress felt remorseful following their split, People reports.

Carino, who described himself as being a close friend and confidant of Heard at the time, was asked about text messages he exchanged with her in August 2017.

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For some background info, Depp and Heard, who met while working together on the 2011 film The Rum Diary, tied the knot in February 2015. Heard filed for divorce in May 2016 and requested a domestic violence restraining order against the Fantastic Beasts actor less than a week later.

Carino and Heard's texts were read out loud by Depp's attorneys.

Heard had written to Carino about Depp: "I've written so many notes. Can you give him one? I don't know how or where to start. There's no way to begin and all I have to say, but I have so many. Finally I am single, clear in my heart and mind. I just want him to know I love him and that I am sorry."

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Carino said in his testimony that he "believed" Heard was trying to reconcile with Depp at the time. Heard's romance with Tesla CEO Elon Musk would ultimately end that same month in August 2017.

In a text sent to Carino in September 2017, Heard shared: "God I miss him," referring to Depp. Another message she penned from June 2018 read: "I text him happy birthday."

After her fling with Musk, Heard also began seeing Bianca Butti during 2020, and she welcomed her first child, a baby girl, as a single mother in April 2021, saying she was little Oonagh Paige's "mom and dad".

Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for defamation over a Washington Post article she wrote in December 2018 about her experience with domestic abuse.

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Amber Heard wanted Johnny Depp to know 'I love him and I am sorry' a year after split, texts reveal