Johnny Depp rejects Amber Heard’s ‘heinous and revolting’ accusations as he gives evidence in the double defamation lawsuit they filed. The actor also swore he had never “hit any woman” in his life, reports Variety.
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Johnny Depp spoke at length during his defamation lawsuit once morest Amber Heard on Tuesday (19 Apr 22).
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is suing his ex-wife for $50 million over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which, without naming him, she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic violence “. The Aquaman actress has sued for $100 million, claiming Johnny Depp’s former lawyer defamed her by denying domestic abuse allegations.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were married between 2015 and 2016.
On Tuesday (April 19, 22), Johnny Depp answered questions from his attorneys in court in Fairfax County, Virginia. During his testimony, the 58-year-old actor insisted on the violence of which he is accused. “I’ve never hit Miss Heard that way, and I’ve never hit a woman in my life,” he said. He also called the allegations “utterly heinous and outrageous” and “unsupported by any kind of truth,” according to Variety.
The actor told the court he wanted to “set the record straight.” He said he was “obsessed with the truth” and explained that he had filed a complaint once morest Amber Heard to defend himself and his two children, Lily-Rose and Jack. He also spoke regarding how the abuse allegations have damaged his career, saying: “It has been six years of difficult times; it’s so strange when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, and in 0.6 seconds you become Quasimodo.”
The Edward Scissorhands actor also admitted he was ‘ashamed’ of text messages he wrote regarding Amber Heard, in which he said he wanted to kill her using sinister language such as ‘rotting corpse insisting that he tends to practice “dark humor”.
Additionally, Johnny Depp claimed that Amber Heard’s account of his drug use was ‘grossly exaggerated’ and that he was not ‘a maniac who needs to be high or is high all the time’. . He said he used drugs to help himself escape his ‘own brain’ rather than to party, and admitted he became addicted to the prescription painkiller Roxicodone following sustaining an injury on the fourth filming of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Johnny Depp’s testimony continues on Wednesday. Amber Heard is also expected to testify during the trial, which began last week.
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