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Johnny Depp takes stand towards Amber Heard for 2nd day in defamation trial: ‘It appeared like pure hatred’ – Nationwide

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Johnny Depp‘s testimony continued Wednesday as he took the stand for a second day to testify towards ex-wife Amber Heard, whom he has accused of ruining his popularity and profession with false accusations of home violence.

On Wednesday, Depp testified in regards to the particulars of his relationship with Heard, claiming she used his private weaknesses as “ammunition.”

“It appeared like pure hatred for me,” he mentioned, claiming Heard would name-call and escalate misunderstandings into “full-scale arguments.”

“In all of those conditions, my essential purpose was to retreat,” he claimed.










‘Too many strains had been crossed’: Johnny Depp particulars alleged abuse by ex-wife Amber Heard


‘Too many strains had been crossed’: Johnny Depp particulars alleged abuse by ex-wife Amber Heard

When requested why Depp stayed with Heard given her alleged behaviour, he mentioned it was “difficult.” He hypothesized the reply needed to do along with his personal mom’s abuse towards his father.

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Depp additionally claimed Heard had threatened suicide up to now. “Many occasions once I would attempt to go away, she would cease me on the elevator with the safety guards, crying and screaming, ‘I can’t stay with out you, I’m going to die.’”

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Throughout his testimony, Depp advised the court docket about his former opioid dependancy and difficult restoration. He spoke about how tough withdrawal was, calling his detox “the bottom second of my life.” In line with Depp, Heard denied him his remedy whereas he was making an attempt to get better.

The actor claimed he isn’t and by no means has been an alcoholic.

He additionally testified he had witnessed Heard use a number of medicine on numerous events, together with MDMA (ecstasy), magic mushrooms and a drug comparable to hurry.

Depp advised the court docket the couple didn’t signal a prenuptial settlement once they married. In 2015, throughout a now-infamous journey to Australia, Depp claimed he requested Heard to signal a postnuptial settlement.

Heard, in line with Depp, rejected the concept of a postnuptial contract. Depp claimed this triggered an argument that spiralled into “insanity” and “violence.”

He mentioned he tried to take away himself from the state of affairs, “however to no avail.”

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At this level, Depp mentioned he was sober for “many, many months” excluding marijuana. He mentioned after the struggle with Heard, he was a “wreck” and “didn’t perceive why all of this was occurring.”

Depp testified this argument triggered him to “pour myself two or three stiff photographs of vodka.”

“She walked as much as me and grabbed the bottle of vodka,” he mentioned. He claimed Heard “hurled” the bottle of vodka at him, which handed his head and smashed behind him.

Depp mentioned he then grabbed one other bottle of vodka and continued to drink. He alleged once more Heard threw the second bottle of alcohol at him.

“She threw the massive bottle and it made contact [with my finger] and shattered in all places.”


Actor Johnny Depp shows the center finger of his hand, injured whereas he and his ex-wife Amber Heard had been in Australia in 2015, as he testifies throughout his defamation trial towards Heard on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 20, 2022.


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“I didn’t really feel the ache at first,” he mentioned. “I appeared down and realized the tip of my finger had been severed and I used to be trying immediately at my bones protruding.”

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“Nobody ought to should undergo this,” he testified.

Depp mentioned in the midst of his “nervous breakdown” he began to jot down “little reminders from our previous” on the partitions in his personal blood, together with “little lies I had caught her in.”

Afterward, Depp mentioned he texted his physician that his finger had been lower off.

He mentioned he initially lied in regards to the how he severed his finger as a result of he “didn’t wish to get Ms. Heard in hassle.”

Depp additionally accused Heard of extinguishing a lit cigarette on his proper cheek after severing his finger.

His authorized group admitted a number of photographs as proof, together with one image of Depp in hospital mendacity on a gurney and the opposite an up-close, graphic shot of his injured finger.

After a lunch break, the jury was proven one other photograph of Depp with a bruise on his face from what he referred to as the “staircase incident.” Depp alleged Heard had given him a “roundhouse punch,” inflicting the wound.

He testified after one other confrontation about “one thing or different,” Heard tried to hit him. Depp claimed Whitney, Heard’s sister, stepped in the best way of Amber to cease her. The actor mentioned Heard managed to “nail him on the cheekbone” by reaching round her sister. He didn’t recall what the struggle had been about.

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Depp’s authorized group then performed an audio clip the place it seems the ex-spouses are arguing. Within the audio, the couple is, in line with Depp, preventing about how he left an argument to go to the lavatory to get area.

The jury listened to Heard say within the clip that she “was upset” and “on an Ambien.”

“You possibly can’t have an answer if the argument retains mounting,” Depp mentioned within the audio clip. “I f-king go within the rest room and sit on the ground.”

Within the audio, Depp accuses Heard of punching him.

“I didn’t punch you, by the best way,” Heard mentioned within the clip. “I’m sorry, I didn’t hit you throughout the face in a correct slap, however I used to be hitting you. I didn’t punch you.”

“Don’t inform me what if feels prefer to be punched,” Depp replies within the clip.

“You didn’t get punched, I hit you,” Heard mentioned within the audio.

Within the clip, Heard additionally admits to beginning a bodily struggle with Depp.

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The jury was additionally proven photographs of Depp from 2015 with scratches on his face. He claims the scratches got here from an altercation with Heard the place “she had some rage challenge with me.”

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He testified when he was getting in to his workplace, Heard emerged from the bed room and “began throwing wild punches at me, in the back of my head, in conjunction with my head, something she may join with.”

Depp claimed he put Heard in a “bear hug” to cease her from hitting him. He mentioned this resulted in “contact” of their foreheads, which he advised the jury triggered Heard to accuse Depp of “head butting her and breaking her nostril.”

“No a part of my physique made connection together with her nostril,” he mentioned, regardless of Heard allegedly displaying him a bloodied Kleenex.

Depp mentioned after Heard discarded the tissue, he retrieved it from the lavatory trash, inspected it, and decided the purple was “nail varnish.”

“Every time one in all these incidents would happen it appeared to worsen and worse,” Depp mentioned, referring to the extent of alleged abuse.

The actor additionally advised the court docket Heard allegedly threw a can of mineral spirits on the bridge of his nostril.

Later, Depp testified after being over an hour late to Heard’s thirtieth birthday due to monetary conferences, Heard allegedly punched him a number of occasions. When he tried to depart, Depp mentioned she punched him once more.

He mentioned he didn’t see Heard for a number of days after this altercation, as she attended Coachella.

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Whereas she was absent from the penthouse the couple shared, Depp mentioned he wished to return and retrieve sentimental gadgets however was advised by his group he shouldn’t. When he inquired why, he mentioned he was proven a photograph of their mattress with what seemed to be “human fecal matter” on his facet of the mattress.

Earlier than turning to cross-examination, Depp detailed a number of the have an effect on Heard’s allegations had on his profession and popularity.

“I don’t know if she wished me to be erased, or drop useless, or wished me to stay round and permit her to spoil my life and exit of her method to disgrace me, and damage my youngsters and damage folks I’ve identified for a lot of, a few years,” the actor advised the court docket.

He mentioned that as Heard’s allegations made their approach by the media, he started to note a change in how folks handled him.

“…You discover folks you otherwise. And you then discover calls cease coming from brokers and producers.”

Cross-examination of Depp got here on the finish of the day, with Heard’s lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, rapidly getting beneath the actor’s pores and skin by narrowing in on the op-ed piece and a joint assertion launched by each actors, casting a lot of Depp’s different testimony apart.

The lawyer emphasised that in 2016 Depp signed a doc 3 times that said “Neither social gathering has made false accusations for monetary achieve,” contradicting what Depp now claims occurred.

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He’ll proceed to cross-examine Depp tomorrow.

Depp appeared on the stand for the primary time Tuesday, detailing his troubled childhood by the hands of an abusive mom, sharing the historical past and frequency of his drug and alcohol use, and offering particulars in regards to the starting of his relationship with Heard.

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In Depp’s testimony on Tuesday, the actor mentioned he needs the general public to know his facet of the story. It’s the primary time he’s publicly addressed the fallout and the claims Heard has levelled towards him.


Actor Johnny Depp testifies throughout his defamation trial towards his ex-wife Amber Heard on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 20, 2022.


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“I needed to anticipate my alternative to handle the costs, which had been prison expenses. They simply weren’t true,” he mentioned.

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Talking steadily of the impression the case and its particulars have had on his youngsters, Depp mentioned he’s additionally suffered from a private fall-from-grace.










Johnny Depp takes stand in defamation trial towards Amber Heard: ‘My purpose is the reality’


Johnny Depp takes stand in defamation trial towards Amber Heard: ‘My purpose is the reality’

“In the future you’re Cinderella, so to talk, after which in 0.6 seconds you’re Quasimodo.”

The absolutely televised authorized battle of the divorced couple has captured the eye of spectators across the globe, with each Heard, 35, and Depp, 58, claiming to be victims of violence. The preliminary court docket case started when Depp filed a $50-million defamation lawsuit over a Washington Put up op-ed penned by Heard in late 2018 about home abuse.


Actor Johnny Depp waits for the jury to depart previous to a break throughout his defamation trial towards his ex-wife Amber Heard on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 20, 2022.


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Heard didn’t point out Depp by title within the article, although in court docket paperwork he alleges his popularity and profession had been nonetheless “devastated” because of this.

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When questioned about his childhood Monday, Depp described intimately the “violent” and “merciless” abuse he and his siblings suffered by the hands of his mom, Betty Sue Palmer.

He recounted occasions when his mom threw an ashtray or beat him with a high-heeled shoe.


Actress Amber Heard talks to her attorneys in the course of the defamation trial towards her on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 20, 2022.


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“In our home, we had been by no means uncovered to any sort of security or safety. The one factor that one may do, actually, was to remain out of the road of fireplace.”

He mentioned that within the early days of their relationship Heard appeared “too good to be true,” however issues started to deteriorate after a few 12 months when Depp mentioned Heard started to indicate indicators of controlling behaviour.

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He additionally testified that the main points Heard has shared about his alleged drug and alcohol addictions are “grossly embellished” and “plainly false.”


Actress Amber Heard attends the defamation trial towards her on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, April 20, 2022.


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He mentioned that whereas he did dabble in his mom’s “nerve tablets” at a younger age, and was hooked on an opiate for 4 to 5 years, he has additionally had months-long stints of sobriety and that when he did use substances, he “by no means appeared loaded or excessive, or any of that.”

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“Even when I felt somewhat spinny nobody would have ever identified,” Depp advised the court docket.

Depp’s attorneys have already referred to as on a number of witnesses, together with associates, the couple’s therapist, and the physician and nurse who declare they handled the Pirates of the Caribbean actor for substance abuse points.

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In opening statements delivered by the previous spouses’ authorized groups final week, Depp’s attorneys declare Heard is “selecting to lie about him for her personal private profit.”

Heard’s attorneys argued the alternative, claiming freedom of speech allowed the Aquaman actor to pen the Washington Put up op-ed.

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