Amber Heard Reveals The Reason Why Johnny Depp Avoids Making Eye Contact With Her

During the high-profile trial, it has been noted that Depp, who is suing Heard for $50 million for defamation, has hardly looked at Heard while she testified in her defense.

Amber Heard has taken the witness stand again to address the 'real' reason why her ex-husband Johnny Depp won't look at her.

She told the court: "Because he's guilty. He knows he's lying, otherwise, why can't he look at me? I survived that man and I'm here and I'm able to look at him."

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Heard's statement differs from Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, who suggested the Pirates of The Caribbean star refused to make eye contact for another specific reason.

"You know why he won't look at you. He told you, you would never see his eyes again," Vasquez said in court on Monday (May 16).

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The jury was then played a recording from 2016, where Depp could be heard telling his ex-wife that he would never look at her again after she accused him of domestic violence via a restraining order.

"I am nothing to you, and I will always be nothing to you. You will not see my eyes again," Depp said in the recording, played to the courtroom and jury.

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Depp's lawyer then asked Heard if her ex-husband had kept the promise he made in the audio recording.

"As far as I know, he cannot look at me," the Aquaman star replied.

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"Unfortunately, all of this is real. Johnny and I lived this. We lived through this. I lived through this and I narrowly survived it but I survived it."

Julie Grant, a host on Court TV, which is broadcasting the trial, told the U.K. TV show Good Morning Britain that she found Depp's refusal to look up "concerning."

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"I thought Amber Heard testified as well as she could," said Grant. "Him looking down most of the time was concerning. Sometimes it can be effective to look like you're not paying attention to a jury. That's a trial advocacy trick."

Grant added, "But to do it for such a prolonged period of time on Wednesday, that to me was a problem. I'm mindful that these two are actors. It's really hard to know what is authentic and what is an act."

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