弗吉尼亚州福尔斯彻奇——一名法医心理学家周二作证说，演员艾梅柏·希尔德患有边缘型人格障碍和表演型人格障碍，因为她和前夫约翰尼·德普之间的民事诉讼继续纠缠于这对夫妇的个人问题。
德普在费尔法克斯县巡回法院起诉希尔德诽谤，此前她在《华盛顿邮报》上写了一篇专栏文章，称自己是“代表家庭暴力的公众人物”这篇文章没有提到德普的名字，但他的律师表示，这篇文章包含“暗示诽谤”，因为它显然是指希尔德在2016年提出离婚时提出的家庭虐待指控。
心理学家香农·库里受雇于德普的法律团队。她说，她是在接受赫德长达12个小时的采访，以及查阅她的心理健康记录时得出诊断结果的。
库里还作证说，赫德并没有像自己声称的那样，因为与德普的关系而患上创伤后应激障碍。
德普的团队希望库里的证词支持他们的论点，即希尔德是这对夫妇麻烦关系中的侵略者。德普刚刚在证人席上结束了四天的作证，证明了赫德的“冲突需求”以及当他试图走开和摆脱时，她在争吵中追逐他的倾向。
库里说，这两种人格障碍是相似的。她说，边缘型人格是一种不稳定的疾病，“由对被遗弃的潜在恐惧驱动。”她说，患有这种疾病的人“会不顾一切地试图阻止这种情况发生。”
审判早些时候介绍的证据包括赫德恳求德普不要离开，并在他表示希望分手或分开后留在她身边的音频剪辑。
她还说，边缘型人格障碍“似乎是对伴侣实施暴力的女性的一个预测因素。”德普说，他是家庭暴力的受害者，他多次殴打他，并向他扔油漆罐和伏特加酒瓶等物品。
库里说，表演型人格障碍与“戏剧性和浅薄”有关，需要成为关注的焦点。
她说，这种疾病与那些外表有吸引力的人有关，他们“利用自己的外表来吸引别人的注意”
在反诘问中，赫德的律师质疑库里潜在的偏见，指出她在被雇用前曾与德普和他的律师在德普的家里吃饭喝酒。库里说这只是面试过程的一部分。
希尔德的律师呼吁注意希尔德同时向她的治疗师和这对夫妇的婚姻顾问报告虐待的证据。
虽然诽谤诉讼应该集中在德普是否在文章中被诽谤，但大部分审判都集中在这对夫妇短暂婚姻的丑陋细节上。德普否认有过惊人的听力。赫德的律师说，德普对她进行身体和性虐待，德普的否认缺乏法律依据，因为他经常喝醉，并且醉到不省人事。
周二早些时候，陪审员听取了塔拉·罗伯茨的证词，她曾管理德普在巴哈马的私人岛屿。她作证说她从未见过任何瘀伤。她的证词也提供了另一个窗口，让人们了解德普奢侈的生活方式。
她说她得到了120，000美元来管理这个岛，德普开着一辆John Deere多功能车在那里转悠。该岛有包括罗伯特在内的四名工作人员，尽管德普一年只去几次。岛上的一段海岸线被命名为白兰度海滩，以纪念德普曾经合作过的演员。
罗伯茨还作证说，在游艇被卖给作家J.K .罗琳之前，德普和他的家人在游艇上进行了最后一次短途旅行。在反诘问中，Roberts承认德普在沙滩上脸朝下昏倒了，在游艇旅行变得不愉快后，她安排了一架直升机带走了一些乘客。
早期的证词集中在德普在东哥伦比亚大厦顶层拥有的五个顶层公寓中发生的活动。
周二，最后一名证人，洛杉矶警官梅丽莎·萨恩斯(Melissa Saenz)作证说，她在2016年5月去过那栋大楼，就在几天前，希尔德提出离婚申请，并出现在法院寻求限制令，她脸上有一大块伤痕，她说那是那天晚上与德普打架留下的。
这位警官通过录音证词作证说，她看到希尔德哭过，但没有看到受伤的证据——德普的律师说，萨恩斯的证词是希尔德伪造受伤以损害德普名誉的证据。
萨恩斯不记得那天晚上她与赫德互动的许多细节，但她确实“记得阁楼给她留下了深刻的印象，它是如此之大和美丽。”
Psychologist hired by Depp testifies about Heard's health
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- A forensic psychologist testified Tuesday that actor Amber Heard suffers from borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder, as the civil lawsuit between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp continues to wallow in the couple’s personal issues.
Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post referring to herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article doesn't mention Depp by name, but his lawyers say the article contains ”defamation by implication" because it clearly refers to allegations of domestic abuse made by heard when she filed for divorce in 2016.
The psychologist, Shannon Curry, was hired by Depp's legal team. She said she reached her diagnosis during 12 hours of interviews with Heard, as well as from reviewing her mental-health records.
Curry also testified that Heard does not suffer post-traumatic stress disorder from her relationship with Depp, as Heard has claimed.
Depp's team hopes Curry's testimony bolsters their contention that Heard was the aggressor in the couple's troubled relationship. Depp just concluded four days on the witness stand and testified about Heard's “need for conflict” and her tendency to hound and pursue him during arguments when he tried to walk away and disengage.
The two personality disorders are similar, Curry said. Borderline personality is a disease of instability, she said “driven by an underlying fear of abandonment.” She said people with the disorder “will make desperate attempts to prevent that from happening.”
Evidence introduced earlier at the trial includes audio clips of Heard begging Depp not to leave, and to stay with her after he indicated a desire to break up or separate.
She also said that borderline personality disorder “seems to be a predictive factor for women who implement violence against their partner.” Depp has said he is the one who was a victim of domestic violence, and that Heard hit him on multiple occasions and threw items like paint cans and vodka bottles at him.
Histrionic personality disorder, Curry said, is associated with “drama and shallowness,” and a need to be the center of attention.
She said there's a correlation in the disorder with people who are physically attractive and “utilize their looks to get that attention.”
On cross-examination, Heard's lawyers questioned Curry for potential bias, noting that she had dinner and drinks with Depp and his lawyers at Depp's house before she was hired. Curry said it was just part of the interview process.
And Heard's lawyers called attention to evidence that Heard reported abuse contemporaneously to her therapist and to the couple's marriage counselor.
While the libel lawsuit is supposed to center on whether Depp was defamed in the article, most of the trial has focused on ugly details of the couple’s brief marriage. Depp has denied ever striking Heard. Heard’s attorneys say Depp physically and sexually abused her and that Depp’s denials lack merit because he was often drunk and high to the point of blacking out.
Earlier Tuesday, jurors heard testimony from Tara Roberts, who managed Depp's private island in the Bahamas. She testified that she never saw Heard with any kind of bruises. Her testimony also provided another window into some of the extravagances of Depp's lifestyle.
She said she was paid $120,000 to manage the island, where Depp tooled around on a John Deere utility vehicle. The island had a four-person staff, including Roberts, though Depp was only there a few times a year. One section of shoreline on the island was dubbed Brando Beach, for the actor with whom Depp had collaborated in the past.
Roberts also testified about an incident that occurred when Depp and his family had a final excursion on a yacht before it was to be sold to author J.K. Rowling. On cross-examination, Roberts acknowledged that Depp passed out face-first in the sand, and that she arranged for a helicopter to take some passengers away after the yacht trip turned unpleasant.
Earlier testimony has centered on activities that occurred in the five penthouses Depp owned atop the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles.
The final witness Tuesday, Los Angeles police officer Melissa Saenz, testified about her visit to the building in May 2016, just days before Heard filed for divorce and showed up at a courthouse to seek a restraining order with a large mark on her face that she says came from a fight with Depp that night.
The officer, testifying through a recorded deposition, said she saw that Heard had been crying but saw no evidence of an injury — Depp's lawyers say Saenz's testimony is evidence that Heard faked her injury to damage Depp's reputation.
Saenz could not recall many details of her interactions with Heard that night, but she did “remember being impressed by the penthouse, how big and beautiful it was.”
