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Johnny Depp's STARE goes viral as he shoots daggers at Whitney Henriquez during 'staircase' testimony

Johnny Depp has vowed never to look into Amber Heard's eyes, but he wasn't shy about giving her sister an intimidating stare

Since the trial began on April 11, many people have noticed that Johnny Depp has avoided looking at Amber Heard in court. The reason behind it was revealed recently in a recording where Depp is heard telling his ex wife in 2016 that she will "never see his eyes again" after he was publicly accused of domestic violence. But Depp was not shy about looking at Heard's sister as she testified in court. On May 18, Heard’s sister Whitney Henriquez took the stand and Depp was seen looking straight into her eyes as she testified in the defamation case.

Henriquez described seeing Depp and Heard fighting and screaming obscenities at each other. According to her, Depp ran upstairs and hit Henriquez in the back, after which Heard smacked him and said, "Don't hit my f**kng sister."

Henriquez added that the security guard for Depp then dashed up the stairwell. “Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her repeatedly in the face with the other, as I was standing there,” Henriquez said.

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Then, Henriquez took Heard to her apartment and locked the door after the security guard separated the couple. She claimed she could hear Depp screaming outside, “I f**king hate you! I f**king hate you both! You f**king c**ts! You f**king wh*res!” During Heard's four-year relationship with Depp, Henriquez said she saw a general decline in her health and wellbeing. She claimed that when Depp was sober, he was bright and bubbly, but that when he was using drugs or alcohol, he became angry and abusive.

“When he was drinking he would get very angry,” she explained. “He would say really nasty, unkind things, usually about Amber, sometimes about me.” She recalled Depp becoming enraged and throwing a steak knife at his assistant during a party in London, missing him. She also remembered an incident in which Depp was drunk and held a teacup yorkie out the window of a moving car, which Heard has also described. According to her, Depp also joked about putting the dog in the microwave.

Whitney previously testified about 'the staircase incident' during the 2020 defamation trial in the UK, where the judge found that Johnny did assault Amber on that occasion, as well as on others. Depp testified about the incident in the latest trial on April 20. In his testimony, he recalled taking a "roundhouse punch" from Amber but did not mention strikinging Amber or her sister. The security guard's testimony generally lined up with Johnny's version.

Meanwhile, when Henriquez was explaining about the fight, people noticed how Depp kept looking into her eyes while she was on the stand. In fact, 7News reporter Caroline Patrickis tweeted a picture of Depp staring at Henriquez with the caption, “It appears Depp is looking Heard's sister straight in the eyes as she testifies.” Many others noticed it too and tweeted on it. One user wrote, “I only see an uncomfortable Whitney, Amber Heard consuming her with her eyes and Johnny Depp looking at her kind of worried and disappointed,” while another said, “You knows he's like "wtf" "why" so so disappointing to see that's how much of a hold #Amber has on Whitney. She's willing to commit perjury for her. I hope they are all held accountable for their actions. #JusticeForJohnnyDepp”