Having had the often vulgar, violent, rage and “monster”-filled communications read out in court under cross examinations from Heard’s defense team, the sunglasses-wearing Depp was given wide berth at the beginning of the third week of trial to reframe what he wrote actually meant in his mind. UPDATE, 10:24 AM: Johnny Depp wasn’t being threatening in his texts, but simply using “abstract humor,” the former Pirates of the Caribbean star told a Virginia courtroom today as he continued testifying as part of his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard. The staffer has begun detailing arguments he overheard between the couple.Īnother witness is expected to take the stand remotely via video link later today. The five-week trial, which started on April 11, later on Monday heard from Ben King, who served as a house manager for Depp and Heard in the UK in 2014 and in Australia in 2015. Having countersued for $100 million in the summer of 2020, the actress is expected to give testimony in the next week or so. Like Depp, Heard will be taking the stand in the trial. “You forced me to by going on the offense,” Heard can be heard replying emotionally. “The abuse thing we gotta deal with that,” Depp said at one point in the recording, as the allegations had been made public. In a mid-2016 recorded conversation played for the court the couple were heard arguing over why their marriage went wrong and of her claims over abuse. “I was broken, really at the end, couldn’t take it anymore,” Depp told the court of the end of relationship.
When asked by his lawyer Jessica Meyers how he felt in the final days of the couple’s marriage, Depp said he was “being nailed in one stop and not being able to do anything but react to her screaming like a Banshee and then telling me to calm down.” On one recording, Heard was crying and told Depp that he is “so f*cking mean” and a “bully.” “You are killing me,” Heard said at one point as Depp has an aide take his then wife away. “I was done…I stated clearly, I don’t want to be with you,” Depp later told the court of the recording, which also had him asking Heard if she wanted to hit him in the ear “again.” No specifics were given of when Heard had allegedly struck the actor. Depp admitted he did throw up in response to the stress of his relationship with Heard.Īt another point, self-described “poor old junkie” Depp could be heard on a recording boosting to Heard that “I’m never getting clean and sober.” That was preceded much today by an audio of Heard talking to Depp about an occasion when he “beat the sh*t” out of her.īizarrely, Depp’s lawyers played another recording of the couple arguing over Depp wanting to walk out on Heard where the actor called her a “pain in the ass,” a “harpy” and a “bitch.” Additionally, the agitated Depp was heard saying that Heard had a “borderline personality disorder” as the actress told him that she loved him. In fact, most of this final portion of the actor’s multi-day testimony was the legal equivalent of an Etch A Sketch in relation to the distinctly unflattering image presented by Heard’s defense team.Depp addressed that on Monday, as he was asked about claims that he vomited in bed as he slept. To that, seeking to inject his own courtroom commentary at the defense team’s expense, Depp had to be mildly reprimanded by Judge Azcarate to “answer the questions.” From a strategic POV that is the image and message Team Depp wants to leave the jury with after the roller coaster of his testimony over the last week. “That’s not me, that’s not who I have ever been,’ Depp said in one of his few succinct moments summing up the long expressed claims that he had been physically abusive to Heard. residence and check into a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel for several days, “I would have gone straight back to the pills.” Heard did in fact go to the hotel as requested. The Show You Have To Watch This Week: 'Gaslit', 'We Own This City', 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' & 'They Call Me Magic'ĭepp said that if Heard didn’t leave their L.A.