From left: Elon Musk, Amber Heard, Johnny Depp.Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty; Neilson Barnard/Getty;
Amber Heardis alleging that then-husbandJohnny Depp"stood [her] up" at the 2016Met Gala— the same night she got acquainted withElon Musk.
As proceedings resumed Monday inthe defamation trialbetween Depp and Heard in Fairfax, Virginia, the 36-year-old actress said Depp, 58, “effectively stood me up on the red carpet” in May 2016, after theirfight during her 30th birthday partythe previous month.
“Johnny missed a fitting, because it was happening around the date of my birthday party in Los Angeles, but we were planning on going together asRalph Lauren’s guests,” said Heard.
She alleged that she “didn’t know” Depp wasn’t going to show up to the Met Gala, as his team would not communicate with her, Heard said.
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Amber Heard at the 2016 Met Gala.Jamie McCarthy/FilmMagic
Heard went on to say that she first came in contact with Musk, 50, on the red carpet.
“I didn’t recognize [Elon] until we started talking and he reminded me we had met once before,” she said, adding that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO “was with his mother,“Maye Musk, at the event.
Over a year after the breakup, Heard toldThe Hollywood Reporterin December 2018, “Elon and Ihad a beautiful relationship, and we have a beautiful friendship now, one that was based on our core values. Intellectual curiosity, ideas and conversation, a shared love for science. We just bonded on a lot of things that speak to who I am on the inside. I have so much respect for him.”
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Heard and Depp met while making the 2011 filmThe Rum Diaryand laterwed in 2015. They broke up in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couplesettled their divorce out of courtin August 2016.
Depp, who has said multiple times under oath that he has never struck Heard or any woman, has testified that his “goal is the truth” as he seeks to clear his name in the trial, which is being televised live via various outlets.
WhenHeard took the stand, she told the jury, “I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is. This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything.”
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
source: people.com
