KEY POINTS
- Johnny Depp will take the witness stand again for cross-examination when the trial resumes Monday
- Amber Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez and actress Ellen Barkin will testify on behalf of her
- Heard already mentioned Henriquez in her testimony while referencing an incident between Depp and Moss
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's defamation trial will continue next week, with the former returning to the stand and the latter presenting more witnesses.
Depp and Heard's defamation trial is currently on hiatus but will resume on Monday in Virginia. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor will take the witness stand once again and be questioned by Heard's legal team, People reported.
The "Aquaman" star's sister, Whitney Henriquez, and her friend, actress Ellen Barkin, will also testify on her behalf. Both previously testified in Depp's highly publicized libel lawsuit in the U.K. against the tabloid The Sun for an article calling him a "wife-beater."
People reached out to Barkin's rep but did not receive a response.
Heard has already mentioned Henriquez in her testimony on May 5. According to the "London Fields" star, her sister was allegedly once near a staircase "in the line of fire...trying to get Johnny to stop" during their fight. Heard also mentioned the rumored incident between Depp and his ex, Kate Moss.
"[Whitney's] back was to the staircase, and Johnny swings at her," Heard testified. "I don't hesitate, I don't wait — I just, in my head, instantly think of Kate Moss and stairs."
"And I swung at him," Heard continued about the alleged altercation in March 2015 between her, Henriquez and Depp. "In all of my relationships to date with Johnny, I hadn't landed a blow. And I, for the first time, hit him — like, actually hit him. Square in the face."
Moss and Depp dated from 1994 to 1997. They were once considered the "It" couples in the '90s. Depp took the blame for their breakup, saying he let his work get in the way of their relationship.
Meanwhile, Moss had nothing but kind words to say about her ex. According to her, Depp took care of her and she cried for years over him.
"There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit," she told Vanity Fair in 2012. "I believed what he said. Like if I said, ‘What do I do?’ he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust."
Many noticed that when Heard mentioned Moss in her testimony, Depp's lawyer Ben Chew reacted. He turned to Depp's legal team and smiled with a fist high.
Aside from Barkin, previous reports claimed that actor James Franco and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Ellon Musk would testify for Heard. But last month, Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, told E! News that the billionaire would not be testifying in the ongoing defamation trial between the exes.
Depp is suing Heard for the 2018 op-ed she wrote about surviving domestic violence. The "Fantastic Beasts" actor alleged that even if he was not mentioned by name, the "fabricated" story was about him, and it damaged his reputation and career. 
Actor Johnny Depp filed a defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard Photo: POOL via AFP / JIM WATSON
