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        <title><![CDATA[Amber Heard’s sister ‘begged’ her not to marry Johnny Depp]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amber Heard&#8217;s sister &#8220;begged&#8221; the actress not go through with her wedding to Johnny Depp, <strong>a UK court heard</strong> Thursday — as the younger sibling revealed that she witnessed him punch her &#8220;really hard&#8221; during a heated row.</p><p>Whitney Henriquez, 31, said she &#8220;felt sick&#8221; when Heard called to tell her she was engaged in September 2013, according to written testimony submitted in Depp&#8217;s libel trial in London&#8217;s High Court.</p><p>She said her 34-year-old sister’s relationship with Depp, 57, was “tumultuous from the start” and she had noticed &#8220;early on&#8221; signs of physical abuse, such as bruises, cuts and burns on the actress.</p><p>“I told her it was a bad idea, begged her not to go through with it and said that she should end it because it wasn’t going to get better,&#8221; Henriquez said.</p><p>“I asked her, ‘why are you putting up with this?’ and told her that him putting a ring on her finger was not going to stop him hitting her.”</p><p>Henriquez said she had confronted her sister on other occasions about the alleged abuse, but the actress “always had an excuse.&#8221;</p><p>She directly asked the &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean&#8221; star for the first time in 2014, saying to him, &#8220;why did you f&#8211;king have to hit her?&#8221;</p><p>“Sometimes he would flat out deny it or downplay it by saying ‘No, I just pushed her, I didn’t hit her,’&#8221; Henriquez said, adding other times that he would try to &#8220;justify it.&#8221;</p><figure id="attachment_5329698"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-62.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-62.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-62.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Amber Heard arrives at court in London today.</span><span class="credit">REUTERS/Hannah McKay</span></figcaption></figure><p>Henriquez — who appeared in court Thursday — described a blowout fight at the couple&#8217;s home in Los Angeles in March 2015.</p><p>The younger sister — who lived rent-free in one of Depp&#8217;s top-floor pads in the same building — said she was awoken by the couple fighting and went to over to their apartment.</p><p>She said that she watched the actor throw a Red Bull can at his sobriety nurse then attempted to pursue her and her sister up the stairs, <strong>according to the Evening Standard</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;When he got to the top of the stairs, he was pulling me backwards so he could get to Amber,” she said. “I remember being scared because I was worried that I would fall backwards and fall down the stairs.&#8221;</p><p>She said the &#8220;Edward Scissorhands&#8221; actor reached out to shove her out of the way to lunge at his then-wife.</p><p>“Amber suddenly lurched forward and hit him and said ‘don’t hit my sister,’&#8221; she said.</p><p>“Somehow I was pushed out of the way so I wasn’t between them, but I was standing right there next to them when Johnny grabbed her by the hair with one hand and I saw him punch her really hard in the head with his other hand multiple times.”</p><p>Heard has <strong>admitted to striking Depp</strong> during the encounter, saying that it was &#8220;in defense of my sister.&#8221;</p><p>The &#8220;Aquaman&#8221; actress — who wrapped her testimony Thursday — has claimed that Depp has been violent towards her on more than a dozen occasions during the course of their relationship, which ended in divorce in 2017.</p><p>She told the court that Depp threatened to slash her face on the same night that he <strong>severed the tip of his finger</strong> during a series of alleged assaults in Australia in 2015.</p><p>“He held a bottle up against my face, he told me that he would slice up my face,&#8221; she told the court.</p><p>She said that she was able to somehow escape him, which prompted him to get &#8220;so angry he punched a wall.&#8221;</p><p>She claimed he then grabbed a telephone which he &#8220;repeatedly&#8221; smashed against wall as “it was breaking off in shards.&#8221;</p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-58.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-58.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-58.jpg" /></p><p> Johnny Depp leaves the High Court in London today.</p><p class="credit">REUTERS/Peter Nicholls</p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-60.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-60.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-60.jpg" /></p><p> Amber Heard and sister Whitney Henriquez</p><p class="credit">Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty</p><p> <noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-59.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-59.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/amber-heard-sister-testimony-59.jpg" /></p><p> The Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles</p><p class="credit">FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images</p><p>Heard has said she believes that a piece of plastic from the phone severed his digit, while Depp has claimed that the actress tossed a vodka bottle, which broke and injured his finger.</p><p>Depp has denied ever being violent with the actress, claiming she was the abusive one in the relationship.</p><p>He is suing the British tabloid The Sun over a 2018 story that labeled him a &#8220;wife beater.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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