Kristina Sexton — Direct/Cross/Redirect

KRISTINA SEXTON: Kristina Lissette Sexton. Queensland, Australia.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I've been at that address since July 2017. There was a transitionary period.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I met my husband in December of 2015, so, and '17, decisions on which country we were going to move to and such, so I did not establish residency here until July, and then began all my paperwork subsequently when we were married in October of 2017.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. Yes, indeed.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. I'm an acting coach.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I believe it was sometime in 2009.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I don't know about exclusive, we don't have any sort of exclusivity contract. She may work with other coaches.

KRISTINA SEXTON: The last time we worked on a project together would be Aquaman, so 2017.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I don't know about exclusive. We don't have any sort of exclusivity contracts. She may work with other coaches. The last time we worked on project together would be Aquaman, so 2017.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Oh, yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Easily, yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Absolutely, yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. As I said, when I would see her, it would be multiple times a week in preparation for a project.

KRISTINA SEXTON: May 2017.

KRISTINA SEXTON: She was really focused on moving to the next level of her career and really stretching herself as an actor, which is why she started coaching so much at that time and then, initially, even went to classes. So, she was really driven to do a lot of work and kind of mine out everything that we could from the text and go over things a lot. So she was very driven, as an actor, to, I would say, get to the next phase of her career.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. It was either 2011 or 2012. It's saying that it came out in 2011, then the premiere would have been in 2011, so, yeah.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I would say sometime in the middle of the following year.

KRISTINA SEXTON: At her house on Orange. I remember him - seeing him quite a bit. In the early period -

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. I did see them often at both Sweetzer and the downtown house.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. Johnny became, I would say, much darker, as time went on. He - he was, like, figuratively and literally he would sit in dark rooms. The art, overall, changed, like, everything got much darker in the houses, like, heavy -- it was always a little, I don't know what the art form would be, dark. But it just like literally lighting would go down and big curtains would be everywhere, and he became much less talkative as time went on. We would see less and less of him personally. I would hear him in the house, but I would see less and less of him, interaction-wise. And when I did, he wasn't very happy.

KRISTINA SEXTON: At different points in time I heard different things. Sometimes it would just be him milling around the house; sometimes it would be him having conversations with his team, bodyguards and stuff, or his friends that were over making music at the Sweetzer location. Sometimes it was him and Amber fighting, like, I was in his home, so I heard him quite a bit.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I would say - I would just hear a lot of him yelling. His voice would carry through kind of the halls of the house. And then, like, I - I remember one time specific that I remember Amber was trying to get out of the room, and then the door shut again and then I could just hear muffled yelling on his part.

KRISTINA SEXTON: In the early part of their relationship, she had said that he was sober. She was trying to support him in his sobriety. And then, subsequently, throughout the relationship, she would talk about his breaks in sobriety.

KRISTINA SEXTON: There were a couple of occasions where I actually heard Johnny say, "Why would you want to do that kind of role? My woman isn't going to play that kind of role," stuff like that I heard a is few times from him over the course of time.

KRISTINA SEXTON: As I said, he would be sitting - initially, when she moved in the Orange location, sometimes he would be nearby, it was a fairly small house, and he would be nearby in kind of earshot, so there were times that he was kind of just disparaging, "That's a shitty role. Why would you do that," that kind of thing. But he wasn't super negative then.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Later on, as it went on, he was very vocal about the negative terms. Like I said, he called it a whore part or a trash part or a piece of shit, all sorts of things like that, generally, pretty negative when if it was something he didn't want her to do.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes, it did. It was decreasing as it went, and there would be stretches of time where she wasn't auditioning at all or working on anything at all.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. Early on, they were incredibly lovey-dovey and passionate and always together in a positive way. They were very playful and friendly.

KRISTINA SEXTON: And then I would see less and less of them together, and I would hear a lot of muffled arguments through walls. And when I did see him, sometimes the balance would shift. It went from being, like, a normal couple to very tension filled, especially those last few months that they were together. And - yeah.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. As I said earlier, Amber was never late when we worked at the studio. And then, as it went on, I began having to actually build in a cushion of an hour around her appointment.

KRISTINA SEXTON: It started out just an extra 15 minutes here and there, because she'd be late coming downstairs, or they'd be discussing, or he had to talk to her at that moment in time. And eventually, as the relationship progressed and the fighting got heavier, I would have to build in time because she'd be sobbing at the beginning of the session and we couldn't work until we got her together.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah, I ended up having to do a lot of cushion time around her just so that we could actually get something accomplished because she was often very upset.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I would say the last year they were together, probably 80, 90 percent of our sessions began with her crying. And that would be increasing as it went on. Ironically she has a little difficulty crying acting-wise, so - which a lot of us do. And so, yeah, we would have to work when we were doing it acting-wise, but it was I a lot towards the end there, a lot of crying sessions.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. Inherently, acting crying is very different, unless somebody is working in what's called "method," in which that's an entirely different thing where they focus on their own stuff.

KRISTINA SEXTON: So she's not a method actor so it would be completely different.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I have a caretaker personality, so I would prioritize taking care of the person in front of me over doing work, which is why I ended up building in all that extra time because I cared about her as a human and I wanted to be there for her, and as much as I could as a friend. So there's no point on working on something if someone isn't fully there or if they're upset. It's more important to deal with the person, take care of them, than work.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I would hear them fighting and hear her come in, and she would be a wreck after she came in. I couldn't make out what they were saying and I, personally, wasn't trying to listen to their fights. So I would just hear the sounds of the screaming in her - usually she thinks - she would open the door and try to get him to be quiet, and then it would go back to him yelling. So that would directly occur before she would come down upset and trying to pull herself together.

KRISTINA SEXTON: He didn't want her going out without any sort of security or any team. He didn't want her going and doing things just on her own.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Over the course of time, she became more and more of a hermit, only leaving the house when she had to. Again, and as I said earlier, literally, the house -- houses became darker with the curtains drawn all the time.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I remember one time in particular when she was living at the Eastern Columbia, that we went downstairs to get a slice of pizza, I think there were four of us, and Amber gave a homeless kid down there some money and we helped him get to the bus stop. And we came back up and Johnny yelled at her about going out and that she knew better than to be going out at night, and that kind of thing. And when we tried to kind of, you know, it's fine. We got pizza downstairs at the building across the street Then he just started screaming and getting really angry.

KRISTINA SEXTON: So we - I made my way out

KRISTINA SEXTON: So, Amber is one of those people that loses weight when she's stressed out. So she would drop weight and look skeletal at certain points this time.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I remember right before their wedding she had lost a significant amount of weight to the point that I was asking her if she was eating regularly.

KRISTINA SEXTON: So, she's always been fit, but she would drop down and get a little gaunt if she's super stressed out.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. She lost a significant amount of weight, and I noticed it, specifically, because I had been in Australia doing a film. And then when I came back - so I had been in Australia since December, I came back in February, and she looked - she was skin and bones. Like, she was much thinner than she normally was at that point. So I know during that time period that she had lost a lot of weight and she was very gaunt.

KRISTINA SEXTON: When she came back from Australia, there were a lot of, like, little red marks on her arms that looked like freshly healing things - I g g I skin, like red marks on her skin, on her arms, that I saw. And then, subsequently, I would see, like, bruises that looked like arms being grabbed or her wrists, and then I saw that all towards the Is end.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. I went to Hicksville for Johnny's ho birthday celebration with them.

KRISTINA SEXTON: We arrived at Hicksville and we had made kind of like a barbecue and drinks, and then we were having a lovely time. Johnny was playing the guitar and singing. And then, as the night went on, it was like around sundown, they started passing around a bag of mushrooms and a bag of white powder. I didn't even partake in the alcohol because I had had surgery a few months before, so I was the only one stone-cold sober.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I -- then I went to bed earlier. And while my friend and I were in our trailer, we heard the fighting happening, Johnny screaming, and a commotion. We didn't come out of our trailer. And then, the quieting down and everyone would be like, oh, it's okay. The bodyguards, I heard them running over there.

KRISTINA SEXTON: And then, next morning, when we got up, the group was talking about what had happened that night. And then I kind of left that conversation and went to the trailer to check on Amber, and I saw the completely tom apart trailer. Johnny was apologizing for what he had done and he was instructing his bodyguards to just pay it off. Let's just take care of it. And I stayed with Amber. She was really shaken up.

KRISTINA SEXTON: The inside was in shambles. I remember seeing a light hanging off the wall. There was g g g g broken stuff everywhere, dishes, it looked like - not dishes. Like the wood was broken. Things were hanging off the wall. It was in shambles on the inside.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: He looked very worried. He was apologizing. He was saying he would take care of it. He was trying - he was, like, "Don't worry about it, Babe, we're going to get this taken care of."

KRISTINA SEXTON: And Amber was really, like, closed off and quiet and he just kept trying to apologize to her over and over again, and then telling his bodyguards to just take care of it, just get it done, whatever it is, just pay for it. And then he went off to go have that conversation with them.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I just remember him saying, "I'm so sorry, Babe. I'll care of it I know that this is bad, but I can take care of it I'm sorry I did that." That kind of thing.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I heard him, at different times, making apologies that he said, "I'm sorry I turned into a monster." I just remember a profuse amount of apologies. I don't know if that time, in particular, had that verbiage.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I mean, the only thing I stated is that I did see him eat the mushrooms. I saw him holding the white bag. I don't know what he did with that, the bag of white powder. Everyone except for me was drinking, and different people were partaking in different p p p g drugs at that time, so I didn't keep track of that.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah, I don't know anything else that I can recall.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. I attended the party.

KRISTINA SEXTON: The party was happening in one of the penthouses, the one that they didn't live in. I It's where they did most of their art and we did most of our coaching. And I don't remember the number of that one. And there were several friends of Amber's there, and we spent the first couple hours waiting for Johnny. And then, eventually, Amber said, let's stop waiting for him, let's just start. So we went out to the balcony to start dinner. And that's when Johnny finally came out and he was severely inebriated when he came down. And they -- Brandon, and I don't remember his last name, it starts with an M, escorted him, kind of helped him stay stable, and we went to the table and we started dinner. And Johnny -- I was sitting two seats away from Johnny. Johnny and Amber clearly were very tense and had been -- I don't know what they had been doing but they were very tense. He would try to kind of touch her and she would shy away.

KRISTINA SEXTON: And then Rocky was trying to change the tone of the party because it had really gotten very somber at that point. And she asked everyone to kind of say their favorite story about Amber. And as we went around the table, everyone shared their stories. When we got to Johnny, he started talking about that he remembered when he first met her the imprint of Amber's ass on his couch, were his words. And it just all kind of took a tum from there. She was clearly embarrassed. She asked y him to stop and he kept telling the story. And it just - it got really awkward and uncomfortable at that point, and never really recovered any sort of jovial energy. We ate and then I left shortly thereafter.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. As I said, Amber was very closed off. She was very quiet. She had said, "Don't come in. I don't want you to see this." So, yeah, she seemed very embarrassed.

KRISTINA SEXTON: He was slurring his words and wobbly on his feet. He ran into a couple things, which is when Brandon came over and kind of locked arms with him to kind of help him stand up.

KRISTINA SEXTON: On her cheek. It was on her right cheek, I think. I think it was right. Yeah.

KRISTINA SEXTON: It was a few days later, but I don't - I couldn't tell you exactly when. I mean, everyone heals at a different rate. I could still see kind of the yellow and stuff in there, so ...

KRISTINA SEXTON: Uh-huh.

KRISTINA SEXTON: We went over to have - I went over - it was sometime in August. I can narrow it down to August, to have wine, have wine, catch up - because, like I said, I think it had been two years since we had physically seen each other.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Only to say to talk to the attorneys about it.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Like, she said, would you be willing to sit down and talk to my attorneys about everything that you witnessed? And then afterwards, I - after I kind of talked about it all, it felt really intense to me and I felt incredibly guilty.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. She did talk about the bottle then, yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: No, it was -- it was after -- like, I had come to see her and had a wine night and catch up. And then after I had talked to the attorneys, after we had a good cry, she -- we were talking more about what had happened. And she was saying how she didn't even tell me everything. Yeah, that's when it came out.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes. It was after I had talked to the attorneys.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. She had told me about the assaults with the bottle, being hit with the bottle and the broken glass, and everything. And then, she had told me about all that many times before. And then this time she started crying and sobbing and started telling me about the assault, the penetrating assault.

KRISTINA SEXTON: No. Because they were all in the other room. They didn't even tell me that they were - like, they were like, "We may have you for a deposition." And that's when I had said to them, "If you're going to do that, I would appreciate it if you did it before I left the states." And they said, "We may or may not need you." It was a couple days later that they '1:6 sent me the contact and said, "We are going to subpoena you."

KRISTINA SEXTON: I would say probably around, like, 10 or 20 times.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Not many. He was coming down to have a conversation, he was pouring off some whiskey or rolling a joint or having wine. It always seemed to me that he was not a social person, if you will, and he would have a drink or smoke in order, to go talk to people is what it felt like. So most of the time I saw him, it was that.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I would say at least half, if not more.

KRISTINA SEXTON: He was very quiet when he was sober. Before he started drinking, he was very quiet. Almost a whisper, mumble, most of the time.

KRISTINA SEXTON: And then, he would get very loud when he was inebriated. He would go to, like, boisterous first and telling, like, cool stories and stuff, that kind of happy drunk. And then it would move into the loud, angry drunk.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Couple of times, yeah.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I couldn't tell you the first time, per se. Like, I have images in my head. I remember him, like, yelling and screaming and the bodyguard coming over saying, "Hey, boss, let's take this to another room."

KRISTINA SEXTON: I remember being in the kitchen of that house, and he came down and he was yelling about something. Amber and I were having a conversation and we were going to -- I think we were going to work on something that day. It was later in the evening where it was really dark in there. Like I said, sometimes they drew all of the curtains. In my memory it's very dark and he was yelling and that older guy came and, like, scooped his arm around him and said, "All right, boss, let's take this to another place." Because he was inebriated, I could tell from the way he was talking and he was just kind of yelling. I don't recall what was happening. It all kind of happened very quickly. I don't remember what he was yelling about or if it was even at anybody. He was just kind of down there and drunk and he just scooped him up.

KRISTINA SEXTON: No, I don't.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Uh-huh.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I remember one time he was mad that people were in the house because I had just gotten there. I don't even remember, there might have been, like, two people there or something, I don't remember. But, yeah, he was storming up those stairs to his office/bedroom area. And then Amber and I went to the other penthouse to work.

KRISTINA SEXTON: No, I did not see him hit her.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I did not see him kick her.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I saw him coming at her, and that's when the bodyguard stepped in, like, coming towards her. But I did not - so throwing himself at, like, but I was not witness to him throwing objects at her.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Sweetzer. He came in through that hallway and we were sitting in, it was kind of like an island there, like, right in the front of the fridge. I was in front of the fridge and he came in from there and was coming at her and the guy, the bodyguard, came in and scooped him up.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yes.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. She was shaking and upset. It felt like something that had been going on for a while.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I never saw him hit her. I heard him I use terminology, as I said before, and as I said, come at her. But I never saw him hit her. If I had, I would have called the cops, to be honest.

KRISTINA SEXTON: No. The only thing I saw was the aftermath. Like, I would see things broken afterwards. And, like I said, in Hicksville, I heard the yelling and then saw the breaking and saw him apologizing for it. But I, with my own two eyes, did not see him physically breaking the stuff or throwing stuff.

KRISTINA SEXTON: No. She had told me that he had broken a bottle and then cut himself with the bottle that he had broken.

KRISTINA SEXTON: Yeah. She didn't say that he - she didn't indicate that he cut off, like went purposefully to cut it. It would seem to me that he had broken the bottle against something and then he was doing things with the bottle, like shaking it around, and that he had cut himself from that. It didn't indicate that he had, in any way, purposely cut himself.

KRISTINA SEXTON: I remember a specific time when Amber still lived at Orange, and Amber was out with her girlfriends, and I had come over too early for the party so it was just Johnny and I sitting there having some whiskey and he was smoking a cigar. And he was talking about that it was -- I said something about -- he said he had to get up early to do a test. I was like, oh, don't you have any sort of, like, concern about that. He said it's easy to fake insurance tests; that's why we do what we do. I was talking to him because another client of mine who had to do an insurance test, he was, like, no, fake your piss test. You can do this. And he just kind of went over a few different ways that it's easy to fake insurance tests and made a joke of it.