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American actor Johnny Depps defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard concluded on 27th May after six long weeks of testifying, cross-examination and various witnessesbeing called to the stand.

During the trial that took place in Virginias Fairfax County Court, Heard recalled her early childhood along with details of her first interactions with the Depp on the set of 2011s movie The Rum Diary.

Lets take a look inside Amber Heards childhood, journey to atheism and early acting career. Where is the Hollywood star from and how did she gain onscreen success?

Long before Amber Heards marriage disagreements were making headlines, the actress was described as a shy girl from her hometown.

On 22 April 1986, Heard was born inAustin, Texas to an internet researcher named Patricia Paige (formerly Parsons) and business owner David Clinton Heard.

Her father owned a small construction company and she has a younger sister named Whitney Henriquez who is now aged 34.

Independent reports that the Heard sisters were raised in a conservative Catholic household with modest finances. The 36-year-old now resides in Los Angeles.

Heard competed in beauty pageants in her younger years. In 2018, she told Glamour that her family made her responsible for raising the funds that she needed, so shed often ask businesses in her area to sponsor her ahead of the competitions.

However, the former beauty queen expressed her mixed feelings when asked how she feels about the industry now as she admitted: Pageants are weird, and I cant support the objectification.

Aside from her time spent on stage, Amber Heard had a few hobbies with her dad, who worked construction and broke horses in his free time. She told Glamour: I was his hunting and fishing buddy.

Prior to becoming a Hollywood star with a private life now the trending subject of a media frenzy, Heard was seen as an introverted schoolgirl.

Recalling the actress old school days, a former classmate told the Daily Mail that she was very quiet, and even earned herself the nickname Amber seen and not Heard because she was so timid.

However, the classmate said that Amber was always ambitious: She always seemed almost like her mind was just off somewhere else and she always said, Im going to go and be an actress and that is what I want to do.

When Heard was only 16, her best friend tragically died in a car accident. Independent states that as a result, she became an atheist. Amber previously told USA Today: That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, Today is what I have.

After her best friends death, Heard reportedly met her first serious boyfriend who introduced her to the writings of Russian-born atheist Ayn Rand. Nicki Swift reports that after reading all of her books, Heard stated: Ever since then, I have been obsessed with her ideals. All Ive ever needed is myself.

In an interview with Rob Brink for Misbehave, as per Friendly Athiest, the subject of religion came up and Heard was asked about her Catholic upbringing.

She said: Id like to thank the way I was raised for giving me enough knowledge about organized religion to make the adult decision to live the rest of my life without it. I dont think you can believe or not believe in anything unless you know a lot about it. I know Christianity, especially Catholicism, like the back of my hand. And my education has given me the freedom to know that it is completely absurd for me to believe it.

Amber later dropped out of school to pursue a modelling career in New York until switching gears to try acting in Los Angeles.

Heard began by sending her pictures to NYC agencies and doing modelling gigs, as she told The Independent.

While the young teenager apparently had no interest in being a model, she loved how different the big city was from her home in conservative Texas: I thought I had died and gone to heaven, she stated: From that moment on I was different.

The stars father previously told the Daily Mail that his daughter always had her heart set on becoming an actor. He added that she had dropped out of her private Catholic school at age 16 to pursue fame:

She wanted this for her career since she was 12-years-old, from the time she was a little girl.

Although Heards family eventually convinced her to return to Texas, she left again once she was aged 18.

According to USA Today, she later earned her diploma by going through a home-study program.

As an actor, she relived her competition days by playing Miss San Antonio in the action film Machete Kills.

Heard received her first leading role in the unconventional slasher filmAll the Boys Love Mandy Lane. The production premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival but was not released in Europe until 2008 and in the US until 2013 due to distribution problems, Wikipedia states.

During the defamation case that concluded on 27th May, Heard shared details of her first interactions with Johnny Depp on the set of 2011s movie The Rum Diary in Puerto Rico.

On 18th December 2018, Amber Heard wrote an op-ed forThe Washington Post, which was titled Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence and faced our cultures wrath. That has to change.

In the article, theAquamanactress detailed her exposure to abuse from a very young age and her experience of sexual harassment in college.

Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation because of an op-ed she published in the Washington Post in 2018. Heard is countersuing Depp. The case is set to continue.

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