Christian Carino, a talent agent who at one point represented both Heard and Depp for Creative Artists Agency, had his pre-recorded March 11 deposition played for the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom on Wednesday, in which he spoke about what Heard confided in him about her relationship with billionaire Tesla CEO Musk.
When discussing Heard’s breakup with Musk in August 2017, Carino recalled questioning why she was “sad” if she wasn’t “in love with him to begin with.” A lawyer for Depp read a text exchange between Carino and Heard in which she admitted that she was “just filling space” with Musk after her Depp split.
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Asked about the text exchange, Carino said, “I believe what I was saying was, ‘If you don’t like being in the press about your personal life, then don’t date people that are famous.”
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Text messages from 2017 were also read aloud that showed Heard asking Carino to deliver letters to Depp: “I don’t know how or where to start. There’s no way to begin. … Finally I am single, clear in my heart and mind. I just want him to know I love him and that I am sorry.” She also once told Carino that she missed Depp, leading Carino to believe she wanted to reconcile with Depp.
Over a year after the Musk breakup, Heard toldThe Hollywood Reporterin December 2018, “Elon and Ihad a beautiful relationship, and we have a beautiful friendship now, one that was based on our core values. Intellectual curiosity, ideas and conversation, a shared love for science. We just bonded on a lot of things that speak to who I am on the inside. I have so much respect for him.”
Depp, 58, is suing Heard for defamation over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for theWashington Postabout surviving domestic violence, though she did not name Depp in the article. Deppclaimed that Heard had an affair with Musk"no later than one month after" she and Depp married in 2015.
A rep for Musk previously said that “Elon and Amber didn’t start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent. Their relationship didn’t become romantic until some time later.”
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Depp and Heard, who met while making the 2011 movieThe Rum Diarytogether, broke up in May 2016, when she sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled theirdivorceout of court in August 2016.
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
Depp has testified that his “goal is the truth” as he seeks to clear his name in this trial, which is being televised live via various outlets. Ahead of the proceedings earlier this month, Heard — who has not taken the stand yet — said in a statement that “hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny. I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world.”
source: people.com
