This ex-partner in question has publicly defended Amber Heard and denied that that's what happened.
Still, there's no excuse for a woman being beaten and raped by a man. She can be an awful person, she still doesn't deserve to be a victim of domestic violence. This is why these men continue to win in jury trials, because it's so easy to make people hate on a woman. Most people think that a female victim needs to be this angelical, innocent figure to be believed. The moment you start showing her flaws and her mistakes, people turn on her. There's undeniable evidence that Johnny Depp abused Amber Heard. It doesn't matter which mistakes she's made, whatever lies she's told, or if she started hitting him back. All she did was file for divorce and then suddenly she started getting harrassed, was dragged to court, and had her entire private life exposed and ridiculed on social media.
It's disturbing to me that there's still people defending what happened to her, though it's mostly people from the United States, so not entirely surprising...