The 34-year-old actress was expecting de Cadenet, a close friend and longtime women's rights activist, to testify against Depp in a series of looming defamation cases.
However, the British-born TV host, 48, reveals in a new legal declaration that she changed her mind because she was 'appalled and shocked to hear how Amber was speaking to Johnny'.
Her dramatic about-turn came after DailyMail.com released a series of bombshell audio tapes in which the couple were overheard discussing their marriage problems and frequent fights.
The "Aquaman" actor admitted 'clocking' her Oscar nominated husband in the jaw and pelting him with pots, pans and vases in various recordings made prior to the couple's May 2016 split.
She also appeared to be goading 57-year-old Depp, predicting that nobody would believe his accounts of the violence and telling him: 'You are such a baby. Grow the f**k up Johnny.' Just recently, Kate James, Heard’s former personal assistant, alleged that Heard had appropriated her story of being a "sexual violence survivor," giving evidence at London's Royal Courts of Justice on the seventh day of Johnny Depp’s libel trial against the publisher of The Sun newspaper.
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers and journalist Dan Wootton for an article on The Sun website that described him as a “wife beater.” Depp denies that he was violent toward Heard, to whom he was married from 2015 to 2017.
Depp’s attorney David Sherborne asked her: "Can you explain why you take exception [to Ms. Heard’s allegations against Depp]?"
James replied, "Because Ms. Heard referred to a conversation we had about me being violently raped at machete point in Brazil and she used it as her own story."
"She referred directly to a violent rape that occurred to me 26 years ago and she twisted it into her own story and she used it for her own use."
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