Johnny Depp’s rep calls Amber Heard’s testimony ‘performance of her life’, actress accused of stealing from ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’

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Following Amber Heard’s incendiary testimony this week, in which the actress alleged her ex-husband Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a bottle and physically abused her throughout their tumultuous relationship, both stars are lashing out at one another in the media.

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“As Mr. Depp’s counsel correctly predicted in their opening statements last month, Ms. Heard did indeed deliver ‘the performance of her life’ in her direct examination,” a representative for Depp told PEOPLE.

“While Ms. Heard’s stories have continued to grow new and convenient details, Mr. Depp’s recollections have remained exactly the same throughout the six painful years since her first allegations were made,” Depp’s spokesperson continued. “His truth — the truth — is the same no matter the environment in which it has been presented.”

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Another time, Heard described Depp’s tantrum when he accused her of flirting with someone at the 2014 Met Gala in New York. In their hotel room after the event, the pair got into a physical altercation.

“Johnny shoved me and grabbed me by my collarbone. I think at that point I shoved him back. I remember he threw a bottle at me, it missed me, but it broke the chandelier,” she said.

“He shoved me down on the sofa and at some point he whacked me in the face. I think that was the first time (where I thought), ‘Is this a broken nose?’ I remember my nose being swollen, discoloured and red.”

Elsewhere in her testimony Thursday, Heard spoke about allegations that Depp abused her with a liquor bottle during an explosive fight in 2015 and threatened to “f—ing kill me.”

“I didn’t know if the bottle he had inside me was broken,” she said. “I couldn’t feel it. I couldn’t feel anything.”

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But in a statement from Depp’s rep, they say when Heard faces questioning from the actor’s legal team, doubts will begin to form as to the veracity of her accounts of the events in question.

“The upcoming cross examination from Mr. Depp’s team will be most telling, and will certainly highlight the many fallacies Ms. Heard has now attempted to pass off as fact throughout her convoluted testimony.”

But Heard’s legal team took a swipe at Depp, using his own words about battling a “monster” within to explain his allegedly abusive behaviour.

“If Mr. Depp was truly innocent, why has he repeatedly apologized to Ms. Heard and promised to put the ‘monster away for good?’” they wrote in a statement obtained by the Sun. “One of Ms. Heard’s disappointments is Mr. Depp’s inability to distinguish fact from fiction – a malady which appears to have spread to his legal team. That same team is so panicked they are fighting tooth and nail to prevent compelling evidence and photos from being introduced.

“Small wonder Mr. Depp does not have the fortitude or courage to even look at Ms. Heard at all throughout the proceedings – as he could not in the UK trial – and, instead he doodles and snickers.”

With the trial breaking until May 16, social media users dissected Heard’s time on the stand, with some accusing the Aquaman star of copying elements of her testimony from movies like The Talented Mr. Ripley and Gone Girl.

One viral post making the rounds, featured a clip of Gwyneth Paltrow’s character saying, “The thing with Dickie, it’s like the sun shines on you, and it’s glorious. And then he forgets you and it’s very cold.”

In her testimony, Heard said Depp made her feel “like the most beautiful person in the world” at points during their relationship, which began in 2011 before ending in divorce in 2016.

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Some people on Twitter were also wildly theorizing that the actress was using drugs while on stand, zeroing in on a clip that has been viewed over 100,000 times in which she is seen snorting something from a tissue and then rubbing her nose.

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Depp is suing Heard for $50 million, claiming that her 2018 Washington Post op-ed defamed him when she described herself as a survivor of domestic abuse. The article never mentioned the Pirates of the Caribbean star by name, but Depp claimed the article implied he was the abuser and impacted his acting career. Heard has counter-sued for $100 million, arguing Depp smeared her by calling her a liar.

In 2020, Depp lost a libel case against the U.K. Sun after the British tabloid labelled him a “wife beater.” A London High Court judge believed he had repeatedly assaulted Heard.

The trial will resume on Monday, May 16.