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        <title><![CDATA[Johnny Depp’s ex assistant claims Amber Heard ‘was the abuser’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amber Heard put Johnny Depp through <strong>&#8220;years&#8221; of physical and verbal abuse</strong> &#8212; and never leveled claims that he attacked her while they were together, Depp&#8217;s former personal assistant claimed Monday.</p><p>Stephen Deuters said in a written witness statement that he was &#8220;extremely surprised and outraged&#8221; when Heard, 34, filed for a restraining order because &#8220;Heard was the abuser in the relationship.&#8221;</p><p>“At no point did Ms. Heard ever mention any physical abuse and I never saw evidence of any injury to Ms. Heard,” he claimed of the &#8220;many occasions&#8221; he was with her during her relationship with his boss.</p><p>“In contrast, Mr. Depp told me on multiple occasions that Ms. Heard had attacked him or abused him physically and verbally.”</p><p>Deuters was with the couple “very regularly” and never saw any signs of injury on the &#8220;Aquaman&#8221; actress, he said in the statement submitted as part of Depp&#8217;s libel case against The Sun newspaper.</p><p>The first he ever heard of any allegations of abuse came when Heard filed for a temporary restraining order against Depp in 2016, Deuters said.</p><p>&#8220;I, along with many others, was extremely surprised and outraged when this hit the press,&#8221; insisted Deuters, who has worked for the 57-year-old &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean&#8221; star since 2004.</p><p>&#8220;I knew that Ms. Heard was the abuser in the relationship and I was appalled that she would behave in this way.”</p><p>Deuters said he was present during some of the 14 times Heard claimed Depp abused her.</p><p>The ex-personal assistant also took the stand Monday, where he admitted he was more of a friend than an employee and agreed he was “regarded almost as family” by Depp.</p><p>He is also still financially dependent on the star, now as the European president of Depp&#8217;s production company, Infinitum Nihil &#8212; which a lawyer for The Sun, Sasha Wass, suggested showed his &#8220;loyalty to him has been rewarded.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;If Mr. Depp or the brand is damaged professionally, you in turn are damaged financially,&#8221; Wass stressed, which Deuters acknowledged was true.</p><p>He was also accused of regularly buying illegal drugs for the Hollywood star, which he denied.</p><p>Deuters told the court he &#8220;never&#8221; heard Depp refer to women the way he has been accused in court so far, denying he used terms like &#8220;slut,&#8221; &#8220;whore&#8221; or &#8220;c&#8211;t.&#8221;</p><p>Depp is suing The Sun newspaper over an April 2018 article that called him a “wife-beater,” which he repeatedly denied during five days on the witness stand &#8212; accusing his wife of the violence.</p><p>Depp is also suing Heard for $50 million in the US for allegedly defaming him in a Washington Post article about domestic abuse. That case is due to be heard next year.</p><p><em>With Post wires</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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