Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard: What Their Body Language In Court Says, According To Expert

Johnny Depp appeared confused by Amber Heard's story about an alleged fight between them during the actor's ongoing defamation trial against her, a body language expert has claimed.

During an appearance on HLN TV, Janine Driver — the founder and president of the Body Language Institute who reportedly "trained thousands of law enforcement officers on how to interpret unsaid messages" — shared her analysis and opinion of the exes' body language when Heard took the stand to testify in the Virginia trial this week.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Heard recounted numerous instances in which her ex-husband was allegedly physically and verbally abusive during their rocky relationship.

Footage of Heard describing one alleged fight was played by HLN, showing Depp looking down with a wrinkled forehead as he listened to the actress.

"From the forehead to the nose, emotion flows," Driver told HLN news correspondent Jean Casarez of Depp's body language in the footage. "That wrinkling in Johnny Depp's forehead, the sudden furrowing, is confusion. It's disagreement. It's 'I'm not happy to hear what she is saying here.'"

Driver also noted that Depp sometimes turned his head to the side, which the body language expert believes was an indication that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor was "trying to make sense of what she is saying [because] it doesn't make sense."

But she said that Depp looking down the whole time Heard was on the stand was "something different," claiming that the actor was sending the message that "I have no respect for the person who's talking so I'm not even gonna look at them."

Casarez then asked Driver about her analysis of the body language of Heard, whom the correspondent noted spoke directly to the jurors and had her body turned toward them nearly her entire testimony.

When asked if this would help Heard connect with the jury, Driver replied, "We have mirror neurons. You yawn, I yawn. We want to be more like the people we are with. It happens all the time."

However, the "You Can't Lie to Me" author claimed that it is unlikely for the jury to find Heard believable.

"She's not [believable]. She is lying through her teeth, in my expert opinion, and I've trained law enforcement, from the FBI to the CIA to clandestine spies," Driver alleged. "Her body language is more off. She does start-stop sentences. Her facial expressions are off."

The expert claimed that Heard used hand gestures and illustrators and her language was fluid while talking about details such as blood written all over the lamps and walls but not when the actress spoke about allegedly being attacked, dragged or slapped.

In a separate interview with CourtTV, Driver also claimed that Heard used start-stop sentences and changed her pronouns and tenses while testifying, which allegedly suggested that she was being "deceptive."

"I think parts of it are true, and many of it is deceptive," Driver claimed of Heard's testimony.

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in which she described herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." Though Depp was not named in the article, he claimed it cost him movie projects.

The trial is on a break until May 16. Closing arguments are scheduled for May 27.