Amber Heard's emotional testimony about the alleged abuse she had endured at the hands of Johnny Depp has been assessed by an actor in a TikTok video that has gone viral.

On Wednesday, Heard took the stand to detail her allegations against Depp, who sued the actor for $50 million amid claims she had defamed him in her 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post, in which she said that she had been the victim of domestic abuse.

While Depp was not named, his lawyers have argued that it was obvious she was referring to him. In turn, Heard has counter-sued for $100 million for nuisance, with her lawyers arguing that the op-ed was a matter of public interest.

With the trial now in its fourth week, the Aquaman actor told the courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, on Wednesday that it had been "the most painful and difficult thing I've ever gone through."

"This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything," Heard said. "Hear people that I knewsome well, some notmy ex-husband with whom I shared a life, speak about our lives in the way that they have."

Hours after Heard spoke of alleged drug use and domestic violence during her testimony, actor Meredith Anne Bull shared a TikTok video in which she gave her take on the testimony.

Bull, who voiced the character Dawn in the 2015 movie Strange Magic, said in the clip: "So I've been a professional actor since I was 7 years old. And today, watching Amber's testimony from an actor's perspective, I noticed some very interesting things.

"As actors, it's our jobs to study human behavior, to really nail down the tiny little moments, details, movements, physicalities that really make authentic moments real."

The actor and musician then played a clip of Heard testifying in court as she looked around the courtroom and apparently made eye contact with the jurors.

"What I saw today was like [a] massive performance to the jury: 'Do you believe me?'" Bull said. "Now, of course, every human being is different, everybody is going to have a different way to express their emotion.

"But knowing that she has a performer background, to see her being so big and seeing that she's trying to get eye contact with every juror... I don't know about you, but anytime I recall trauma, I am not trying to see if every person is making eye contact with me.

"If anything, I'm actually probably shying away from eye contact because it's such a vulnerable, [personal] moment, especially what she was talking about, which is abuse and [domestic violence] and all sorts of crazy stuff. I thought that was a little weird."

Bull, who has 1.8 million followers on TikTok, concluded her clip with a disclaimer that "everybody shares their trauma in different ways."

The video has clocked up 540,000 views in the hours since it was uploaded.

During her testimony on Wednesday, Heard was asked to recall the first time Depp allegedly hit her. "I will never forget it," she said. "It changed my life."

She said she asked him about a tattoo on his arm that looked like black marks. He told her it said "wino," and she laughed, believing he was joking. Depp then slapped her "across the face," she testified.

"I felt safe talking to my mom because I knew she understood those dynamics and she wouldn't judge me for staying with him, for loving him even though this was happening to me," Heard said.

The exes' court battle comes almost two years after Depp lost a 2020 libel case against British tabloid The Sun, which had labeled the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory star a "wife-beater," in reference to Heard's allegations of domestic abuse during their divorce proceedings in 2016.

While Depp had repeatedly denied ever having been violent to Heard during the three-week libel trial in London, a judge found that The Sun's claims that the Kentucky-born actor was abusive to Heard were "substantially true."

The trial in Fairfax, Virginia continues.

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