Johnny Depp kept making jokes during the trial when asked about text messages with Marilyn Manson, Paul Bettany, and Elton John in his $50 million lawsuit ...
(Observers could hear smashing noises in the background but not see what was causing them in the video.) “I did assault a couple of cabinets, but I did not assault Ms. Heard,” Depp said. We’ve had cocaine together maybe a couple of times,” Depp responded plainly. While Depp looked stern at times, he responded to some of the questions with wry one-liners. Heard did not mention Depp’s name, but he sued her in May 2019, claiming he was the clear target of her piece and that her implications had ruined his career. Many of the text messages in question — including those exchanged with Paul Bettany, in which Depp suggested he wanted to “burn” Heard — have been made public, but these missives were new to jurors. Heard had accused Depp of abuse in 2016, and she wrote generally of abuse in a Washington Post op-ed in 2018.
Johnny Depp claims he lost the tip of his finger when Amber Heard threw a vodka bottle at him but a recording played in court appears to support her version ...
Depp also has denied all allegations of wrongdoing, testifying on Thursday that Heard broke her nose after their head collided—and that it was an accident. Depp previously testified that he had to undergo surgery after Heard hurled a bottle of vodka at him during an argument in Australia—but jurors were shown a message and heard audio that suggests that the actor may have actually chopped off his own finger. The injury is among several instances of abuse Depp testified Heard inflicted upon him during their short-lived union that ended in 2016.
Actor continues testimony on his life and marriage with Amber Heard, including events that marked the end of their relationship.
Depp said he had hidden in a bathroom, and was later taken to a hospital where he told doctors the digit had been caught in large accordion doors. Depp testified that Heard had become enraged when he had started drinking in Australia during the filming of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise films and had thrown a bottle of vodka at him, severing the top of his finger. After two days on the stand in a $50m defamation case brought by Johnny Depp against his former wife, the actor concluded his narrative of their marriage by testifying on Wednesday that accusations of domestic violence brought by Amber Heard had destroyed his career.
The actor recounted the ordeal in court on Wednesday on the second day of his testimony in his defamation trial against Ms Heard in Fairfax, Virginia. He filed ...
Mr Rottenborn quoted Mr Depp from his UK trial against The Sun, during which he said that “I recall painting on a lampshade, on a wall, on a mirror. In her 2018 op-ed, Ms Heard wrote that “like many women, I had been harassed and sexually assaulted by the time I was of college age. “It was almost like white noise, just someone yelling,” he said. “I don’t know what a nervous breakdown feels like, but that’s probably the closest that I’ve ever been,” he said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “It just went right past my head and smashed behind me.”
A big part of the Johnny Depp trial testimony, including from the actor himself, has been around Johnny Depp's finger injury. Was his finger cut off?
The actor also explained why he wrote confronting messages around the home using his severed finger.
I did not want to put her name in that mix." "GOOD LUCK AND BE CAREFUL AT TOP". Depp says he wrote it, "I thought it was good advice." that it had been Ms. Heard that had thrown a vodka bottle at me," he said earlier this week. "I said that I had smashed it in these large accordion doors. This lampshade was on the floor at the Austrailia house.— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) #JohnnyDeppadmits to writing this in a mixture of paint & blood with his injured finger. what I felt was, I felt heat.