A man who attended the final day of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial claims he saw Heard’s attorney, Elaine Bredehoft, head to the bathroom in tears.
The suspected breakdown came after the end of the defamation trial following six weeks. Both sides completed their closing arguments on Friday (May 27) in the Fairfax County, Virginia courthouse, and the jury has begun deliberations.
The 58-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star is suing Heard, 36, for $50 million after she referred to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse" in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.
Despite not mentioning his name, Depp's lawyers argued that her allegations are false and ruined his career and reputation.
Heard is countersuing for $100 million and claimed that she was only ever violent against Depp in self-defense or defense of her younger sister, per NBC News.
A frequent court-goer called James shared some inside gossip on their Twitter account, under the handle @jamesfromcourt, saying: "Late after trial, before the jury went home, #ElaineBredehoft left for the bathroom crying. We all felt terrible for her. After she came out, we tried to make her smile. I hope it helped."
The tweet garnered 13.8K likes and has 1,345 retweets at the time of writing.
James later appeared in a YouTube video to share more details about his claims.
Watch the video below:"It was around 5 o’clock, right before the jury decided they were going to go home for the day," he told YouTuber Andy Signore. "Everyone had pretty much left, but there were a few people hanging around, just in case they had [reached] a verdict.
James continued: "Three of us were standing outside the bathroom when we saw her basically kind of not run, but go into the bathroom very quickly crying. And then one of them was going to go in after her, but another woman entered the bathroom, too."
He then added that when Heard's lawyer left the bathroom she appeared to have a "red nose" like she "had been blowing her nose or something".
"She seemed a little bit better, but… we noticed. It was very visible because she’s cried a couple of times in court as well [which] we’ve noticed. So we all had said something about it, like… we feel so bad for her."
"So after she came out, we all were like, ‘Hey, you’re doing a great job. It must be so hard. We understand. It’s not you,’ and stuff. She smiled and she said thank you and then went back into the courtroom," he said.
Former LA District Attorney Emily D. Baker weighed in on the situation and said there was "no shame" in crying after such a challenging case.
"This had to be a hard case for Elaine, I would never want to try," she said. "This is a hard case to try, it is hard to do this in front of the public eye."
"Six-week trials are exhausting. Exhausting," she added. "So I do not fault her for crying, it is a very human response after a very long trial."
The jury will continue deliberations later today and a verdict will be reached soon.