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Beth Robson

Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of 'kicking and slapping' her on private plane and says actor 'hated' her co-star James Franco

Amber Heard has claimed that Johnny Depp kicked and slapped her and called her a "sl*t" on a private plane, in front of security staff and assistants. The Aquaman actress, 36, has taken the stand for the second time today. Yesterday she described the early stages of their relationship and detailed the time her ex-husband allegedly slapped her for the first time.

Today - day 15 of the libel trial brought against her by Depp - the actress continued to detail alleged assaults Depp, 58, carried out on her, including an incident on a private plane between Boston and LA, in May 2014.

Depp denies ever physically assaulting Heard.

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Depp then allegedly started making sexual comments about Heard, who at the time was filming The Adderall Diaries with actor James Franco. Heard had earlier told the court that Depp "hated, hated, James Franco," and had accused "me of secretly having a thing with him."

Describing the alleged incident, Heard says Depp reeked "of weed and alcohol, his breath smelt so bad."

She described Depp saying "You want to tell me how much you liked it, tell me how much you liked it', asking me how James Franco had me in the scene... being really explicit about my body.

Heard says she moved away from Depp "slowly" several times.

"He sits down next to me at one point and he slapped my face," she told the court, and said a friend was nearby when this happened. "It didn't hurt my face, I just felt embarrassed. It was the first time anything like that happened in front of somebody," she said.

She described how she got up to move again, and Depp allegedly kicked a swivel chair into her hair and asked "'What are you going to do about it?' I just stared at him... I wanted him to see me. I felt like there was a blackness in his eyes. It didn't feel like him."

She said: "I am walking away slowly, he tells me 'hurry the f**k up', I look at him one more time, I wanted to penetrate the monster and see the man I love. I walk away and feel this boot in my back. He just kicked me in the back."

She said he "started straight up taunting me... called me a go-getter, called me a sl*t, this is happening with his security and assistants on the plane. I struggled to tell you how embarrassed I was."

"I fell to the floor... I felt I was looking at the floor of the plane for a long time. I thought I don't know what to do.

"No one said anything, no one did anything."

She spent the rest of the flight looking out of the window, Heard told the court. She claimed that Depp started "howling like an animal", and then "passed out in the bathroom".

Johnny is suing Amber for defamation over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post.

He is suing her for more than £38 million, saying her domestic abuse claims have harmed his career and reputation.

Amber has filed a countersuit against Johnny, seeking almost £78 million in damages and saying his legal team falsely accused her of fabricating claims against the actor.

The trial continues.

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