Whitney Henriquez — Direct/Cross

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Whitney Henriquez.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: In Glendale, California.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I am.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I am. I'm married with two small children.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Three-year-old and a newborn, just over two months old.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Before the pandemic, I worked in hotels doing various food and beverage management jobs, primarily events as well.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I met him sometime in 2011 for the Rum Diary press tour. But I did not meet him until 2012 as Amber's boyfriend.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, we had an apartment together on Orange Avenue. I have split my time between there, as well as an apartment I shared with my boyfriend at the time.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: We got along really well at first. He was sober at the time and Johnny, when he's sober, is very bright and beautiful and lovely and kind and generous. And he was very easy to get to know. And frankly, we all fell in love with him, at first.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Again, at first, that was wonderful. They were incredibly in love. I actually, to this 1 13 day, have never seen my sister fall so madly for somebody. And things were wonderful. They seemed to really understand each other and get along well and -- but very quickly, this pattern emerged, as their relationship went on, that if Johnny was using, there almost always was a fight. There was always --

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That when Johnny was using, there would be a fight. I saw it firsthand.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: If he was using or if he was drinking, there was almost always a fight. There was always an argument. There was always a period where they weren't getting along. And it seemed to oscillate pretty quickly. He would be sober for a little . bit and would, almost just as quickly, fall off the wagon and start to use or drink, and there'd Is be some big blowout. And it seemed to go back and forth pretty frequently. There was never an I 1 O extended period of time where it was one or the In other.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At first, Amber was Amber. She was loud, fun, funny. She laughed a lot. She was just this happy, bright, fun-loving thing, always, surrounded by friends. And then it was just -- it was a progression that took over such a long period of time, and it was so slow. In hindsight, it was like watching a slow-motion gunshot. She suddenly stopped sleeping as much. Wasn't as funny, she wasn't as loud, she wasn't as gregarious as she used to be. Cut to the end of their relationship, she was so physically unwell. She maybe weighed 100 pounds soaking wet. She was emaciated, she wasn't sleeping. She had developed a heart condition and her eyes were sunken in. Just looked like she--

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: If you were to do a photograph side by side, you would see two very different people. And people that knew her throughout the entirety of their relationship saw the same thing.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At first, you know, it would be, like, light jokes or, you know, she left the house wearing something, like, oh, are you going to wear that? Or some joke. It was very subtle. And then over time, again, just like the progression of their relationship, it just intensified. Then, suddenly, it's, you know, she's - they have the same stylist. He forgot her name, but he had the same stylist. And he had been, essentially, controlling what she wore to events and things like that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She went from being able to wear whatever the hell she wanted and then, suddenly, she's wearing anything that her stylist, his I stylist wanted her to wear or wanted them to wear. And her style, over time, just got more and more conservative.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That, too, was one thing. At first, it was - he was saying he was protective over the kinds of jobs she was taking. You know, oh, that's not going to be good for her career; that's not going to be good for this; that's not going to ! be good for that. Then, suddenly, it's he has a problem with her taking any sort of job or any sort of audition. And then it became every time that she even thought about taking a meeting, it was another fight. He would often say things like, I don't even understand why she needs to work. I'll take care of her. I'll take care of you.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I'll take care of everyone else. She doesn't need to work at all. It was one of those things that he was, at the end, vehemently against her working at all.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Again, these are all things that just very slowly, over time just changed. You know, at first, you know, he was very inclusive of all of us. At one point, we all lived downtown together in these beautiful lofts. At first, that was part of the relationship, was getting to know him and him getting to know us. Then just, again, slowly over time, he took issue with Brandon at one point, then Brandon wasn't allowed in the fold. Time went on, he had an issue with iO. IO wasn't allowed in the fold anymore. And then, at some point, even me.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He had accused me of doing something horrendous that I had never done. And then, suddenly, I'm not allowed around anymore. Over time, she had such a small network of people that were there to support her. It was hard to watch.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Amber was -- she was a pretty healthy person at first. She didn't have any medical issues that -- you know, didn't need intervention of any sort. But any one of Johnny's attempts to get sober, he had employed Dr. Kipper, who had these nurses, and he had a personal nurse that would, like, administer medication. You know, I think the intention was to make sure that he stayed clean --

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Sure. All of a sudden, for really unclear reasons, Amber had her own personal nurse, just administering medication. And from what I saw, it was strange. I didn't think Amber needed medication on the daily, or whatever, and then all of a sudden, she has a therapist that is employed by Dr. Kipper. Even her medical treatment was

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Well, every time they fought or had an argument, a device was going to get smashed. She lost a phone, a tablet, computer. You could almost guarantee that something would get destroyed when they fought.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: !, expectation of privacy for her, in terms of what was on her devices or accessibility of her devices.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Countless. I mean, too many times for me to quantify.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Again, it would be really hard for me to put a number to that. It was a lot.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Personally, I've done cocaine and drank with him on a number of occasions, so that. He almost always had weed of some sort, marijuana, like, you know, joints or whatever. I have seen him take MDMA on an occasion, shrooms as well. I once saw him consume a bag, a Ziploc bag that had a bunch of just unknown pills, some prescription, some not. He just took them all at once to see what would happen, and he laughed about it.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Well, he always had - he always had cigarettes or rolling papers. When I say 1; "cigarettes," I mean the tobacco and rolling O papers. He always had a joint on him. If he was ! 11 in the phase of using coke, he would carry around I a little pill box that had his cocaine in it. He always had a pocket knife, a lighter, and, yeah, that's about what I can recall.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Like I said, it was, you know, a completely different version, you know. He was almost unrecognizable when he was drinking and using to an excess. If it was alcohol and coke, he would - he would slur, he would go on these paranoid delusional rants about things that didn't make any sense. He -- you know, his speech would be slurred. I almost never knew him to use cocaine without drinking, those were, generally, combined. When he would smoke weed, he was much more relaxed. He was kind of what you would expect, happy on the couch, laughing. But when he was drinking, he would just get very angry and he would just say really nasty, unkind things, and it almost didn't -- usually about Amber, sometimes about me. But it almost didn't matter if she was in the room or not.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He would just say really horrible, horrible things about her or to her.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Pardon me language. Fucking cunt. He called her a fucking used up trash bag. Slimy whore, saggy whore. You know, fucking cunt was thrown out a bunch. Just horrible things like that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: It was sometime in the afternoon. Sometime in the afternoon. I came in and Orange was typically a very neat, clean place, but as soon as I walked in, there was a bunch of -- there was smoke in the air. I remember it smelled like cigarette smoke and there was smoke in the air, so somebody had been smoking inside, which was odd because Amber and I don't smoke, and Johnny used to always just go outside and smoke. But walking a little further in, there was furniture askew.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Going into the kitchen, there was -- Johnny sat at our little breakfast nook table that we had there, and he was wearing glasses. He had, you know, there was cocaine in front of him. There was booze in front of him. Journal, like, newspaper, things like that just kind of scattered around at the table. And I sat down to talk to him to see what was going on, and it was really hard to understand what he was getting at. It was really clear that he had been drinking for some time. His speech was slurred and, again, he was really - it was really hard to follow what he was trying to tell me. At first, he seemed to be upset that my sister had been photographed with her friend Marie in France. He, then, started saying that it must have meant that she was having an affair with her and, you know, everyone would be laughing at her, and this would end - her father was a French politician, so he, then, started rambling on about, oh, he knows what her I father is up to, this, that, and the other.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Again, it was this strange, paranoid tailspin, is the only way I can describe it. It wasn't true. My sister wasn't having an affair with this person.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So, as I'm sitting there talking to him, Amber is in the kitchen and, you know, she's not sat at the table or anything, just kind of hanging back, and Johnny is still talking to me about what the problem was.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: And then, all of a sudden, the focus shifts to this painting that has been on the wall ever since Amber and I moved in, and the painting was done by one of my sister's ex's, so he was convinced that it was on the wall to taunt him, to tease him and how disrespectful that he had to wake up next to this painting, and it surely meant that Amber and Tasya was back together again, which, of course, was not true. But then he was upset about that; he was upset about this painting that was on the wall.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was trying to talk to him, not only to just try and figure out what he was going on, but I was trying to get him out the house because he was already very late for filming this documentary that was being shot at one of his houses.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Correct. My understanding of it.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So, for hours, we sat there. I was trying to, you know, talk to him, make him feel like everything was okay. Just try to get him out of the house. His assistant kept coming in and out at one point. And all the while, Amber is just in the kitchen. She's, again, she's like giving us space, but she's in earshot, and he's saying these things about her. At one point, she tries to come over to, like, check on him and she kind of embraces him from behind, and he's just, like, fuck off and, you know, continues to say these things about her. And, again, we sat there forever.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: And eventually, we did get him to leave the house. So I - but he insisted that Amber come too and that if they were going to work it out, she would have to be there and she would have to talk about it at some other point, I guess.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At that time - it was before I had a real understanding what was going on. I didn't know, frankly. Her face was swollen and - but I didn't - and it was kind of red. I thought she had just been crying. And her lip did appear to be cut, but, again, at the time, that wasn't what we were trying to do. It wouldn't have been appropriate to, you know, talk to her about it or anything. That wasn't my focus, frankly. My focus was, you know, sitting there trying to figure out what he was upset about and get him out of the house.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Few hours. I couldn't say. Maybe around, like, four or five hours. It took a minute.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I did.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Correct. That was part of the condition of him leaving, is that Amber had to go with us.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So, Amber and Johnny were sitting in the back. I was in the front with Sterling, the driver, and I - they weren't saying much back there. There was music playing pretty loudly, so I couldn't really hear what was going on back there. But at some point, I heard the back door open - or the back window open, and Johnny is holding our dog out the window. And I - I froze. I was scared because I just remember thinking I knew how inebriated he was and the dog was very small. I thought if she twitched or, you know, if he lost her or somehow, she was just going to go e out the window.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: And Amber, of course, was just saying -

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He brought the dog back into the car and he was just laughing, this, really, scary, loud, like it was almost like a cackle. And he, then, made some joke about putting her in the microwave, and that was the joke after that, was t I putting the dog in the microwave.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Occasionally, I'd see bruising, cut lips, split lips. Weird marks, burns, or, I don't know, on her arms, scratches on her arm, things like that. It was just - it was just weird and it was periodic. It wasn't, like, a constant thing. But there were - there were injuries to her.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I did, at some point, confront her and ask her. And she -

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So Hicksville is like this - it's a collection of themed Airstreams, like a little - it's in the middle of the desert. It's a fun, little place to go. So we went with a group of our friends, and, yeah, so each one of us had our own little Airstream or whatever. My partner and I, at the time, we got there last. As we're going around checking out the different Airstreams, because, again, each one of them had a different theme, so it was kind of fun to see who was staying in which theme or whatever. I opened Amber's and Johnny and there's cocaine on the table. I didn't really think much of it at the time. I was, like, okay, fine, we're all here to have fun.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That night, you know, we sat around the campfire, everyone was drinking, some people were taking shrooms, you know. And then I drank too much, and I went to bed early, before everyone else. And then the next day, you know, when everyone was cleaning up, I had heard about something that had happened the night before and an altercation that --

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I observed people cleaning up after what appeared to be just a night of friends hanging out. I then went to my sister's trailer and -- where she was staying with Johnny, and it looked like a bomb went off in there. There were broken things, things had been askewed. It just looked incredibly messy. Looked like somebody had ransacked it.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That's what I observed.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So, September 2013, that was around the time of my birthday. Amber was filming in London and she wasn't able to make it back for my birthday, and it was also a friend of ours, iO also has a birthday the same time, or around the same time as us, as me. Johnny thought it would be great to load up and surprise Amber on set. He thought she'd really enjoy it so that's what we did. We loaded up, went on a plane that he chartered, and I believe my father was with us as well, and, yeah, Johnny and I drank and did a lot of cocaine on that plane, and I ended up passing out, but we get to London and, you know, we had -- it was wonderful to see Amber, and we had a dinner that night at the hotel that we were staying at -- or it was either that night or the next night. I can't remember, exactly. But at one point, Johnny picked up a steak knife and he hurled it at his assistant. It missed him, but, obviously, Nathan got upset and he left, and he was upset as well. And I -- a fight broke out between Amber and Johnny that night.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I didn't -- I didn't witness it. I wasn't there.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Okay.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I left sometime after that, and when I touched down in Los Angeles, I learned that they had-

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: They got engaged at some point when I was on the plane. I left London; by the time I landed in Los Angeles, they were engaged.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was called over to where he was getting ready, 80.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, that's one of the houses that is on that street that Johnny had- he had several houses on that street. 80 was the one that he referred to as, like, the man cave. That's where he spent a lot of time. So I was summoned to 80. Again, following a fight that he and my sister were having.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Sure. Sure. When I got there, Johnny was outside and he was very drunk already, and he was continuing to drink. He was, again, rambling about my sister having affairs with people that it just wasn't true, and just kept saying things. It was, you know, that she doesn't need to work and he doesn't understand why she continues to take jobs. She must be doing it to insult him or to hurt him or she's only taking these jobs because, you know, she wants to meet people. I don't know.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: The entire time that we were talking, his sister and his, you know, assistants, at one point, everyone was trying to get him out of the house because he was already very late for this.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: But eventually, they did get him to O leave the house, and I saw the awards show later, at some point.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Unfortunately, an extension of what I had seen at the house. He was still very drunk. Actually, a little bit more drunk than when I saw him at the house.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Well, he was drinking the entire time understood what Johnny looked like when he's we were talking. In general, at this point, I drunk. He's stammering, his speech was hard to understand, he was slurring, he was super unsteady on his feet. Yeah, I recognized what he looks like when he is drunk.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Ooh, I want to -- I actually don't know for sure when I moved in. It would take me a minute to remember. Sometime in 2014, I think.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So I was in what they call PH4. The layout is, you know, the entire top floor of this building, Johnny owns them all, and he was kind enough to let us all live there. So I was in PH4. Amber and Johnny were in PH3. I believe Isaac was in 2, and Rocky and Josh were in 1. But the only ones that actually connected were 3, 4, and 5. So, again, I was kind of sandwiched between where Johnny and Amber stayed and Amber's, basically, closet. So, basically, you had to cut through to get to one point to the other. So I was sleeping. I woke up to Amber in my bedroom saying, can you believe he's cheating on me?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She said something.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Oh, okay.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I woke up to her saying Can you believe he's cheating on me Your fucking brother is cheating on me I got up I told her to stay right there

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I instructed her to stay in my apartment while I go and talk to Johnny. So, I leave PH4, I leave her in PH4.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Oh, rare occasions where I was sober. I was - it was in the middle of night. I was sleep.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Absolutely. Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So I go to PHS, where Amber -- I'm sorry, Johnny, Debbie, and Travis were all standing in the kitchen of PHS. I was -- I went down there to talk to him, and, again, I can tell he's clearly drunk, and he has a bottle of alcohol of some sort in front of him as well. And, again, he's talking to me about how he -- how Amber found these text messages between him and a woman called Rochelle, and then he starts saying that this woman was meaningless. It was just -- it wasn't anything special. She's nothing special. But then he immediately shifted to, well, Amber pushed me.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Amber made me do it. Of course I'm cheating on her, you know, whatever. It suddenly became about Amber making him do it. At some point, then, Amber is on the mezzanine level of PHS, so she is -- kind of hard to explain. The kitchen is down here and the mezzanine is up here. So she is there, it's her little office nook, and she starts shouting at him saying --

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: They're saying horrible things to one another. Fuck you. You know, he's calling her a fucking whore, fucking cunt. Used up trash bag, whatever. They were saying horrible things to each other. She was calling him old and fat. It was a fight. They were saying nasty things to one another. I leave them in the kitchen to go up the stairs. I was trying to calm Amber down, hoping to get her into my apartment. And Debbie had come up with me.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Debbie was his nurse.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, I believe that's her name.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So we're with Amber on the mezzanine

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Debbie, Amber, and I on the little mezzanine area. And as I mentioned, the mezzanine overlooks the kitchen and the living room. So Johnny, then, hurls a Red Bull can and it hits Debbie in the back. She didn't even react. She didn't really even seem to notice. But I'm standing up there talking -- I'm standing up there on the top of the stairs with my back to the stairs, and that's when Johnny runs up the stairs and, again, I'm facing Amber.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He comes up behind me, strikes me in the back, kind of just somewhere over here, he strikes me in the back, I hear Amber shout, "Don't hit my fucking sister." She smacks him, lands one and then he grabs -- at that point, that's when Travis runs up the stairs, after Amber landed one. But by that time, Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was g y whacking her repeatedly in the face with the other, as I was standing there. Travis pulls them apart, I get Amber into mine, I close the doors behind me and lock them I then hear Johnny's voice shouting.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I hear Johnny's voice shouting, "I fucking hate you. I hate you both. You fucking cunt. You fucking whores." Then I hear crashing. I hear crashing and banging and smashing, and he starts screaming like an animal. I then just moved Amber into the next room, and I kept her there all night The next day, I go and I see her closet has been completely destroyed. Racks were overturned. One of the clothing racks had been, like, tossed down the stairs. There was art off the wall. And down in the kitchen, there was broken glass, like just the place was destroyed.

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WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

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WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Kevin Murphy. He was Johnny's estate manager.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That is one of Amber's clothing racks on the stairs that lead up to the bedroom area.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I did.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: These are more of Amber's racks. These were her shoes and purses and such. Those were all, like, taken off the walls, and you can see here all of her clothes on are on floor, and in shoes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: More of the same. Clothing racks that have been kind of toppled over or moved. They used to - they were, like, neat. It looked like a, you know, it was a closet room But these were toppled over and moved. This was the room that adjoined my room, so ...

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That's another clothing rack that had been taken down and taken apart, kind of.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: ! Is please describe for the jury what's depicted here.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: More. Just more clothing racks that have been taken down, moved.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Same thing. Just more clothing racks that were toppled over.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: And this is the kitchen area. This is the - taken from the mezzanine level that I was describing earlier, but that looks like broken glass or something, blue ceramics broken.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I still can't tell what it was, maybe a plate of some sort, but there's also a rolled cigarette, a couple bottles of water. But, yeah, whatever that blue thing is, it was broken, so it's all over the kitchen there, and also next to the stove.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: There was an NDA on my kitchen table.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: It's a nondisclosure agreement. It's basically, my understanding, it's a contract to keep things private. To keep your mouth shut, essentially.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was asked to sign one. I don't - I don't believe I signed it. I left sometime after.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: It was - yes, it was after this point that Johnny had accused me of selling stories to the media, which were absolutely untrue. But I moved out after that point.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes. February 2016, she texted me asking me to come back.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I think on and off. I think I had my own apartment by then, but I spent a lot more time at the Eastern after that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: It was her 30th birthday, so we wanted to make it, excuse me, really special. We had - made this beautiful dinner, you know, and it was great. All of her close friends were there and everyone was having a really good time. Everyone was having fun. You know, Johnny showed up very, very late, and he was drunk when he showed up. Amber was obviously upset about it, but there came a time in the party where we all went around the table and said our favorite thing about Amber, you know, just funny memories or whatever. When it came to Johnny's turn, he told this story about how they first met when they met for the Rum Diary.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: So, you know, he had this story about how she came into his office and she sat on the couch and her perfect ass left a perfect imprint on the couch, and he wouldn't let anyone sit there after she left that day. And it was one of those stories that I -- everyone was kind of embarrassed. You know, we had all gone around the table saying really nice things about her and gets to him and he was talking about her ass. We were all kind of embarrassed.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I left pretty shortly after that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: And I went home.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He was planning on coming to Coachella Is with us, you know, whenever. At some point, we were talking about what was happening the next Ito day. And so that night, he told us he was going I to come to Coachella with us the next day.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: No.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Amber has worked so hard to overcome everything that she went through in the duration of their relationship. She has really, really tried her best to move past it. And anybody that knows Amber, at all, knows that some of the most important things to her are integrity. It's her reputation is all she has. She doesn't have piles of money and private islands or-

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I'm - she was devastated by these. She - to say that they're not true, it devastated her. Also we had just buried our mother. You know, so, Amber, she started having panic attacks randomly. She was not sleeping.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: These statements devastated her. They devastated her because they weren't true and they were just very, very, very much affecting her.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She would just, like, periodically just break into tears. She - I don't know how else to describe it. She was so unwell. She stopped sleeping again. She was super anxious. She couldn't relax. She couldn't sit still. It was very similar to the Amber that I had seen back in 2016, as she was trying to get out of this relationship. It launched her back into this space where she was just so physically unwell and she cried a lot

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WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Marriage counselor, yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Clearly not very well, but, yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, on occasion.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Depended on the situation. Sometimes, I could totally see from his perspective; other times, I saw it from her perspective.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: We're sisters, of course we've argued.

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WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Which one?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He was, by the time I got there.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He wasn't doing much of anything. He sat at the table. He was telling me about the fight that they had.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That was my understanding.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Hadn't yet connected the dots. I hadn't yet understood what that meant or what that would do.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I did, yes. I already said that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Suspicions.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Regrettably over a text message, yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I was not, literally, encouraging her to hit her.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Regrettably, yes. Again, lacks - I did not have an understanding, fully, of what that was. I never would have said that now, knowing what I know.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I don't know.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I don't know if it was around the same time.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I honestly don't - I don't know what he was aiming for. My back was to him.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: No, I wasn't.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: No.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She was.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: He was.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: After he struck me, yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Correct.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Not to document. It was Kevin's job to kind of clean up the houses, take care of the houses. I took pictures just so he could be aware of what he would need to bring. I didn't know if he had tools here or whatever. I was just preparing him for what he was going to have to fix.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: No, I didn't

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Of course.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Of course.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At some point, sure.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes. I was asked to support. I was just trying to help what I thought they both wanted. I was just trying to support - or trying my best to support them the way I thought that I could.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: What I thought was irrelevant at that point. I really - those two were in love and they were working very hard. They wanted to be together, it seemed like, so I - I just helped as best as I could. I don't know how else to describe it.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She loved him.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I don't know what you mean by that, exactly.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Do I have control of this or no?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yeah, vaguely. I mean, they're clearly my text messages, but, yeah, I recognize them, I think.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Oh, but that's not where you guys are at?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At that point, clearly, I didn't.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That's really oversimplifying something that's far from simple. Again, Amber was very much in love, so was Johnny. She's telling me that she wants something. Whether or not I agreed to it or not, whether or not I was okay with what was happening, it wasn't my place. If my sister said that she still wanted to be with Johnny and if I could help with that in any way, I was going to support her. I was going to be there for her to support that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Pardon?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I don't know if I'd characterize it that way. ls Again, I was trying to support my sister the best that I could or knew how, what I thought she wanted.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At that point? I don't know if I would characterize it as that. I was just trying to support my sister.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, I was aware that they had argued the night before.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She was wearing a lot of makeup.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Not that I can recall.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: To the best of my recollection, I don't.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: No, she didn't.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes, I did

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I believe I reached out to him for her, yeah.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I believe so, at one point, yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I'm sorry?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Sure.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Amber really wanted him there, despite the fact that they had had a fight the night before. It was very complicated It was very nuanced. You know, they fought, they got back together. They fought, they loved each other. They hate each other, they loved each other. I just remember her wanting Johnny to come to Coachella at some point. I wasn't trying to reconcile them. I was just trying to help facilitate.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Again, that's really oversimplifying something. We all saw this -we all thought that Johnny- we would see Johnny on the other end of this. Because, again, he was sober, things were wonderful. When they weren't, when he wasn't sober, they were terrible. Sure. We all thought he was just going to get better. We all just wanted to see the other side of that. So, yes, sure, if you look at it simply, but it's not simple at all. I don't know how else to answer it.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Ms. Henriquez?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I do.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: She is.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I did.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: May 2015?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: It was -yeah, it was around the time that, you know, he had accused me of leaking stories, and that was the impetus of me leaving.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: At some point.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I believe so.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: We were.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: I don't recall if it was that long.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: About some things, yeah. She was my friend.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yes.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Other than the staircase incident? I witnessed that incident.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: What are you asking me exactly?

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Other than the staircase incident, I did witness that.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: No, that was the only time that I saw him

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: Yeah, staircase incident is the only one that I saw.

WHITNEY HENRIQUEZ: That was the time, yeah. After he hit