Johnny Depp's longtime friend and neighbor used his testimony to slam Amber Heard's domestic abuse allegations against the actor as a "malicious lie".
Depp, 58, sued Heard, 35, for $50 million, saying she defamed him when she wrote a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse. The trial, which began on April 12, seeks to determine whether the Aquaman star's op-ed was indeed libelous.
On Wednesday, which marked the second day of the star's libel trial against his ex-wife, Isaac Baruch gave an emotional testimony on the witness stand.
Check out what Bucha had to say in the Twitter video below:At one point, he was asked if he was "angry" with Heard, to which he replied: "Oh, about all the phoney pictures that were taken and put in tabloids, and about the fake narrative?And the way she's trying to... got a fraudulent DV (domestic violence) claim to extort and blackmail a man? Yeah, that kind of got me frustrated, confused, angry, upset, yes."
Bucha went to say: "It's six years... am I angry anymore? What I am is tired and I want this all to end."
He told the court he wants Heard "to go heal, him to go heal" and that "so many people have been affected by this malicious lie that she started... and it's gone out the door and around the world".
Becoming tearful, Baruch went on to say: "I'm not angry at anybody. I want the best for her, for her to take her responsibility, heal and move on.
"Move on. For Johnny, his family has been completely wrecked by all of this stuff and it's not... it's not fair... it's not right what she did and what happened for so many people to get affected from this, it's insane how this happened."
Elsewhere in Baruch's testimony, messages sent to him by Depp were shown in court, one in which he apparently said he "hoped that Amber's rotting corpse is decomposing in the f***ing trunk of a Honda Civic."
In another text, the actor purportedly wrote of Heard to Baruch: "That c*** ruined such a f***ing cool life we had for a while."