Johnny Depptestified about an explosive fight he andAmber Heardhad in 2015 that he says resulted in a severed finger.
Continuing his witness testimony on Wednesday, the actor, 58, recalled an infamous alleged fight that happened between himself and Heard while in Australia for work back in March 2015. Depp held up his right hand to show his “funny-looking” middle finger, which appeared slightly shorter.
He testified that Heard, 35, threw a vodka bottle at him that went past his head. Then, after he drank a shot from another bottle, he said she grabbed the larger bottle and again threw it, making contact with his hand resting on the bar top.
“Blood was pouring out,” he said. “I think I went into some sort of… I don’t know what a nervous breakdown feels like, but that’s probably the closest that I’ve ever been. Nothing made sense.”
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In that state of mind, Depp began writing on the walls in his own blood, he said. He wrote “little reminders from our past that essentially represented lies that [Heard] had told me, lies that I had caught her in.”
Depp said hehid in a bathroom and called his doctor. When he was taken to a hospital to treat the “mangled” finger (which they showed graphic photos of in the courtroom), Depp said he told the doctor it happened when his finger was caught in large accordion doors.
He said, “I lied because … I didn’t want to disclose that it had been Ms. Heard that had thrown a vodka bottle at me and took my finger off. I didn’t want to get her in trouble. I tried to just keep things as copacetic and easy as possible for everyone. I did not want to put her name in that mix.”
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In part of a depositionplayed in courton Monday (it was recorded Feb. 22), Depp’s doctor Dr. David Kipper said he didn’t know how Depp had gotten injured when he cleaned the actor’s wound. When asked in the deposition about a text message to Kipper from Depp that claimed the actor cut his own finger, Kipper responded, “I think that’s what it said, yes.” Kipper also said that the actor told the ER doctor he’d cut his own finger with a knife.
Heard has not yet taken the stand in this court case. Her legal team will cross-examine Depp next.
About the headline, “tragically, it’s true,” Rottenborn told the courtroom. “Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp. … You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered. You’ll hear that straight from her. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. It happened.”
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Shortly after, Rottenborn listed a time when Depp allegedly had a three-day, alcohol-fueled blackoutwhile in Australia in 2015toward the end of their marriage, when Depp “abused and sexually assaulted Amber, all because she had the courage to confront him about his drinking.”
Heard and Depp, who met while making the 2011 movieThe Rum Diaryand wed in 2015, broke up in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled theirdivorceout of court in August 2016.
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at1-800-799-7233, or go tothehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
source: people.com
