AMBER Heard said she was the victim of Johnny Depp’s “rage and uncontrolled violence” as she testified in her $100m defamation trial.

The Aquaman actress broke down in tears as she described being “heartbroken” by the moment her ex-husband hit her for the first time.

6 Amber Heard claims she was the victim of Johnny Depp’s 'rage and uncontrolled violence' Credit: EPA

6 Mr Depp sat 10ft away from his ex wife at a bench with his legal team and barely looked at her Credit: EPA

6 Miss Heard told the trial Depp hit her for the first time when she laughed at his tattoo - which he had changed to 'Wino forever' after he split from Winona Ryder

Miss Heard said that it “changed my life forever” and said she wished she had left him then instead of staying with him for another four years.

Asked about the first time Mr Depp physically hit her, Miss Heard said she and Mr Depp were talking on the couch and he had been using cocaine as there was a jar of it on the table.

Miss Heard asked Mr Depp about the tattoo on his arm which read ‘Wino Forever’ - he had it changed from ‘Winona Forever’ after he split up with the actress of the same name.

Miss Heard said: “He said it says wino and I thought he was joking and I laughed.

'He slapped me across the face and I laughed. I laughed because I didn’t know what else to do. I thought this must be a joke. Because I didn’t know what was going on.

'I just stared at him laughing thinking he was going to start laughing too to tell me it’s a joke.

'(He said) you think it’s funny b****, you think you’re a funny b****? And he slapped me again. It wasn’t a joke anymore. I stopped laughing. I just stared at him.”

Miss Heard said that she wished she could have 'drew a line' and left Mr Depp but she didn’t.

The testimony came after Mr Depp, 58, spent the last three weeks portraying Miss Heard, 35, as the abusive partner.

The exes were married for 15 stormy months until they split in 2016 with Miss Heard filing for divorce and a temporary restraining order.

At the court in Fairfax, Virginia, Miss Heard entered the witness box wearing a black suit and waistcoat with a blue and white striped shirt underneath.

Her long blonde hair was swept into a side parting.

Miss Heard said that Mr Depp was suing her over an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in 2018 in which she called herself a victim of domestic violence.

Mr Depp sat 10ft away from her at a bench with his legal team and barely looked at her.

Miss Heard said that Mr Depp was suing her over an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in 2018 in which she called herself a victim of domestic violence.

6 Miss Heard's first witness told the court Mr Depp was sexually violent towards her Credit: AFP

6 The Aquaman actress at the court in Fairfax, Virginia Credit: Reuters

6 Mr Depp leaving court with attorney Ben Chew Credit: AP

Asked how she felt about it, she said: 'I struggle to have the words. I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is.

'This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything, hear people that I knew, some well, some now, my ex-husband with whom I shared a life, speak about our lives in the way that they have.

'This is the most painful and difficult thing I’ve ever gone through, for sure.'

It comes after the court heard how Mr Depp allegedly performed a cavity search on his ex-wife to try and find drugs and screamed 'I'll f**king kill you' during an attack.

Miss Heard's first witness, Dawn Hughes, a New York-based clinical and forensic psychologist, described multiple instances of sexual violence to the court.

Dr Hughes said when Mr Depp 'was drunk or high he threw her on the bed, ripped off her nightgown and tried to have sex with her'.

She said: 'He forced her to give him oral sex when he was angry. These weren't loving moments, these were dominant moments.'

Dr Hughes claimed Mr Depp 'performed a cavity search' on Amber in an attempt to look for drugs.