Amber Heard's Former Best Friend In Tears Describing Horror Injuries After Johnny's Alleged Abuse

Amber Heard's former best friend Rocky Pennington recently gave her testimony to the court through a pre-taped video deposition in which she talked about the alleged injuries of the actress. 

When questioned about the December 2015 incident where Heard claimed that she was headbutted and repeatedly punched in the head so badly that the bed frame broke. Heard even told the court that Depp dragged her by her hair and huge chunks of her hair came out. 

Pennington was asked by the court if Heard was lying about these incidents. However, Pennington detailed to the court about the aftermath in which she saw blood in Heard's hair and a chunk of it had been 'ripped out.'

She said: 'It wasn't dripping down her head but it was raw and red.'

Asked by one of Depp's lawyers how she could tell that Heard's hair had been ripped out, Pennington gave an exasperated smile. She said: 'There was a bloody patch with hair missing.'

Pennington said that Heard's 'whole face' was red and that the upper bridge of her nose was swollen - she conceded the redness could have been from crying. Heard also had a cut to her bottom lip.

Pennington said: 'There were many times I saw injuries on her.'

The following day Heard was due to go on the James Corden TV show and Pennington said that she was there when Heard showed her injuries to her makeup artist and stylist who had to cover them up. 

Pennington rejected the idea that Heard or her makeup team could have drawn on bruises to her face.

She said: 'Because I saw injuries on her body from the time directly after they happened, the next day and as they continued to heal.'

Heard's lawyer Benjamin Rotternborn asked: 'Have you ever known Miss Heard to paint on bruises or use makeup to make it seem like she had a bruise when she didn't?'

Pennington said: 'No, the opposite. She often had to cover bruises and injuries on her face with makeup.'

Talking to the court, Pennington wiped her emotional tears as she walked through photos of Heard's injuries including her swollen nose, her bloody lip and her bruised eyes.

Another photo showed Pennington holding back Heard's hair line so they could see the damage to it.

Other photos showed Heard's 'hair pulled back to show abrasion on the scalp where hair has been removed,' Pennington said.

Heard's lawyer Benjamin Rotternborn said: 'I'm sorry this is so hard Miss Pennington, we just need to get through it.'

Heard was herself seen crying by this point and she was handed tissues by her lawyers.

Pennington said: 'She was very upset, her face was red, swollen. The hair had been ripped out of her head. I don't think I even slept that night, just watching her to make sure she didn't….'

Rottenborn asked: 'You were worried she had a concussion?'

Pennington responded that that was correct.

The court was shown photos of clumps of hair around the penthouses and Pennington confirmed they were Heard's.

Asked if she had ever known Heard to pull her own hair out, Pennington said no.

Pennington said that Depp came over to talk with Heard at her penthouse in Los Angeles even though Pennington thought it was a 'really bad idea.'

Pennington told the court that at some point Heard texted her to come and when she reached she could hear Depp yelling.

As Pennington entered the apartment, Heard was 'calling for help and that never happened before, saying help me, help me.'

Pennington said: 'I went up to him. I put my hands up on his chest and said stop, just stop.

'He hit my hands away and so I went straight over to Amber. She sat down on the couch. I just put my body over her.

'He came closer to us and was yelling at her to get up, quit crying or get up. It was really loud and he was getting closer and closer.

'There was this big orange ceramic ashtray on the coffee table and I was thinking if he gets any closer I'm going to pick up that ashtray and hit him with it. He was so close over us. At that point (Depp's security) came in and were like boss, boss, come on, let's get out of here.'

Depp stormed off, smashing things with a large bottle of wine in his hand.

The jury were shown photos of broken glass, a broken lampshade and other damage that Depp supposedly caused.

Pennington said she was afraid that Depp would harm Heard and said his mood was 'irate'.

She said that Depp kept screaming at Heard to 'get the f**k up!'

Pennington said that she saw Heard after she got back from Australia in March 2015 after the 'three day hostage situation' where Depp's fingertip got sliced off.

Pennington said: 'She (Heard) had these deep cuts on the back of her forearms. They were very very deep long cuts on the backs of her forearms.'

She was asked about a Thanksgiving 2015 dinner at Depp and Heard's penthouse in Los Angeles.

The court also heard previously that among the list of guests were Depp's son Jack and rocker Marilyn Manson.

Heard claimed she and Depp got into an argument in their bedroom and that he threw a glass decanter at her which smashed everywhere.

Pennington said that she went to the bedroom to check on the couple and saw that a full bottle of wine had hit a piece of art that 'Amber really loved' and broken it.

She said: 'There's also plenty of glasses around with wine in them that could have been part of that. There was glass everywhere.'

Pennington said that Depp was 'acting as if nothing happened.'

She said: 'I couldn't tell what he was feeling. I didn't know what was going on.'

Pennington was asked if Heard ever said that she would 'gain financially' from going public about her final row with Depp in May 2016.

She said no.

Pennington was shown a photo of Heard in court while getting her restraining order in May 2016.

She said she took it and it showed Heard looking like a 'skeleton' with a bruise on her cheekbone.

Rottenborn said: 'Is there any truth to the allegation that Amber did this because she's a 'gold digger?'

Pennington said: 'No.'

Depp's former lawyer Adam Waldman has claimed that Heard and her friends staged the damage they claim that Depp caused.

Rotternborn asked Pennington if she 'staged the crime scene to prove abuse allegations against Johnny Depp?'

She said no.

Asked if she staged anything that night, Pennington said no.

The trial also heard about one of the police officers who attended the final fight between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and he said that there was enough evidence to arrest him.

Josh Drew, a former friend of Heard's said that one of the officers said they had enough evidence to 'go pick him up', referring to Depp.

Drew is the ex-husband of Heard's former best friend Rocky Pennington.

He told the court that on May 21, 2016 after Depp and Heard had a violent argument there was a 'gigantic wine stain in the hallway' which he showed to police who attended.

There was a dent in the door 'shaped like a bottle of wine' that he showed the cops, Drew said.

He also showed them broken glass and smashed jewelry.

One of the officers, a woman, went to speak to Heard on her own while the male officer spoke with Drew.

He told the court that the cop told him that there was 'damage in these apartments, her face is red', referring to Head.

The officer allegedly said they had enough evidence to 'go pick him up', referring to Depp.

Drew's testimony contradicts with the two officers who earlier gave evidence and said that they didn't witness any damage or injuries to Heard's face.

According to Drew, Heard 'was damn near catatonic' after the fight with Depp.

One of Heard's lawyers told Drew that she 'hates to go back to the poop incident', referring to the excrement found in Depp and Heard's bed in April 2016.

Heard has denied that she had any part in it - Depp's chauffeur claimed she told him it was a 'prank'.

Drew said that he observed 'in perpetuity' poop or dog pee in the apartment.

He said it was 'pretty much constant' and that he had 'cleaned up my fair share of it'

Drew confirmed that Depp and Heard's dogs - two Yorkshire terriers called Boo and Pistol - were not trained at all.

He said: 'At some point there was pee and poop on everything, couches, sofas, the bed, you name it'.

Drew later said that one of the dogs was too small to climb up the stairs of the apartment or get onto the bed, but the other could.

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