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In audio played during trial, Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of lighting a cigarette on her.

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In audio played during trial, Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of lighting a cigarette on her.

During the eighth day of Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife, a series of explosive audio recordings between Heard and Depp were played in court.

More audio recordings of the former couple’s explosive arguments were played for the courtroom in Fairfax County, Virginia, on day eight of Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard. Heard claims in one film that Depp lit a cigarette on her, which he disputed in court.

“Go put your f—ing cigarettes out on someone else,” Heard says in the audio. “You f—ing have consequences for your actions!” Depp replies, “Shut up, fat ass.” On the stand, Depp called the allegations “another grossly exaggerated moment.” He testified that he “did not put out a cigarette on her or throw a cigarette at her,” but allowed that ashes might have been flicked in her direction.

During Depp’s fourth day on the stand, he revealed a number of audio clips that painted a picture of the former couple’s tumultuous relationship. In another video, Heard claims Depp “beat the shit out of me, then you show up at my doorstep a week later.”

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million in retaliation for an op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post in 2018 on her experiences as a domestic violence survivor. Though Heard did not mention Depp by name in the essay, his lawyers claimed that references to him and her allegations of public abuse were evident, and that the op-ed harmed his career and reputation.

In 2016, Heard filed for divorce from Depp after a year of marriage, getting a domestic violence restraining order against him and alleging him of physically and verbally abusing her while under the influence of drugs and alcohol during “violent and volatile” episodes. Depp has referred to the charges as “heinous” and “not rooted in any kind of truth,” claiming that Heard was abusive towards him.