Amber Heard 'felt nothing' and her 'soul was dead' when she started dating Elon Musk just weeks after her Johnny Depp breakup, therapist testifies

• Psychologist Dr. Dawn Hughes testified in the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial Wednesday.
• As part of her assessment of Heard, Hughes asked about Heard's other relationships with men.

Amber Heard started dating Elon Musk after seeing him at the 2016 Met Ball — just weeks after her breakup with husband Johnny Depp — but her heart wasn't in the relationship, a psychologist testified in court on Wednesday.

Depp has taken Heard to trial for defamation, claiming she ruined his reputation and career by insinuating she had been the victim of domestic violence in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Heard is fighting the lawsuit, and has claimed that Depp physically assaulted her on multiple occasions before and during their marriage.

Heard's lawyers started presenting her side of the story on Tuesday, starting with testimony from Dr. Dawn Hughes, a forensic psychologist who evaluated Heard for the lawsuit and determined that she had been the victim of intimate partner violence committed by Depp.

During cross-examination by Depp's lawyers on Wednesday, Heard was shown some of her notes from the 29 hours she spent interviewing Heard.

One of the notes addressed relationships she had with other men, including billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

While Depp has claimed that Heard cheated on him with Musk, Heard told Hughes that she started dating Musk after seeing him at the 2016 Met Ball. The gala was held just a few weeks after she had a major fight with Depp that resulted in their separation.

"I was heartbroken. My soul was dead. Felt nothing then," Heard told Hughes about the Musk relationship, according to Hughes' notes.

Heard told Hughes that the relationship with Musk ended in March 2018.

Earlier in the trial, the jury was shown text messages between Heard and her former agent, Christian Carino, where she confirmed that she never loved Musk.

After complaining to Carino about the press coverage over her breakup with Musk, Carino wrote back: "You weren't in love with him and you told me a thousand times you were just filling space."

"I know, but I wanted time to grieve and recover in my own time," Heard responded.