Amber Heard

Updated April 20, 2022 at 11:06 AM ET. Actor Johnny Depp returned to the witness stand in a Virginia courtroom on Wednesday, a day after he first testified ...

"I'm sorry that I didn't hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you. Throughout nearly all of his testimony, Depp put the blame on Heard for some violent incidents. Depp claims that Heard instigated physical altercations between them, while he sought to flee from her reach. Little reminders from our past" that he said represented "lies that I had caught her in." "It just went right past my head and smashed behind me," Depp said. "What really surprised me was that she kept saying, 'I'm not even in your will,' " he said. When Heard found him, he said, she threw the bottle at him. Heard arrived in Australia in March 2015, Depp said. But he alleged that when he asked Heard to quit drinking, she refused. "Violence was unnecessary," he said. On Wednesday, Depp also said Heard sometimes drank heavily and used drugs — ecstasy (MDMA) and mushrooms. Both of them began recording their fights, he said, after they disagreed over what was said.

Depp said the couple had frequent arguments that included "demeaning name calling" and "bullying" by Heard. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Depp said he later retrieved the tissue and found the red stain came from nail polish. She said she threw things only to escape when he was beating her, and once punched him because she feared he would push her sister down a flight of stairs. Depp's lawyers have said they filed the US case in Fairfax County, outside the nation's capital, because the Washington Post is printed at a facility there. The actor said he felt like he was suffering some kind of breakdown and began writing on the wall with blood from the injury. On Wednesday, Depp described an incident in which he said Heard repeatedly punched him. During one argument, Heard threw a vodka bottle at Depp's hand, cutting off the top of his right middle finger and exposing bone, he said.

At trial, lawyers read messages actor wrote to Elton John and others, describing alcohol and drug abuse and violent thoughts.

Heard’s lawyers argue that Depp has no credibility when he denies abusing Heard as he often drank and used drugs to the point of blacking out. The court also listened to a recording of Depp moaning during a now infamous flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Depp later texted Bettany to say that he drank “all night before I picked Amber up to fly to LA this past Sunday. Ugly, mate. In several of the messages, Depp used the term “monster” to describe the person he became under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Jurors have also been shown a box in which Depp allegedly kept cocaine and several large bags of marijuana. In that episode, after losing the top of his finger during an argument with Heard in Australia, Heard’s attorney produced texts in which Depp said he had injured it himself. In another exhibit, jurors were shown a photograph of Depp asleep after a 17-hour work day when he was also taking opioids.

Attorneys for actor Heard, who are trying to derail Depp's libel lawsuit against her, resumed questioning Depp in a Virginia courtroom Thursday as they asked ...

"That is to say, I lost, because that is not a thing that anyone is gonna just put on your back for a short period of time. "I did assault a couple of cabinets, but I did not touch Ms. Heard as you can see," Depp said. Depp has been on the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court since Tuesday afternoon. When asked by Rottenborn if his behavior could be perceived as intimidating, Depp said, "If (Heard) was intimidated, why was she filming? "When the allegations were rapidly circling the globe, telling people that I was a drunken, cocaine-fueled, menace who beat women, suddenly in my 50s, it’s over. A text between Depp and David Heard, Heard's father, from December 2015 was also displayed in court. "I once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so that he would stop talking so much." “I am an insane person and not so fair headed after too much of the drink,” Depp continued. Heard's lawyers showed photo evidence alleging that Depp used the severed finger to paint on mirrors and lampshades after the fight. "I cannot and WILL NOT excuse my part inside these dramas!!!" In the column, she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse. Depp said that Heard often violently attacked him.