Johnny Depp wrote on a wall with blood from his severed finger tip during a long and violent confrontation with his ex-wife Amber Heard five years ago, London's High Court has heard at his libel case against a British tabloid.
Key points:
- Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had a series of violent rows while in Australia, court hears
- Depp said he wrote messages on a wall using blood from his severed finger
- The libel trial against a UK tabloid is expected to last three weeks
Mr Depp told the court he suffered "some species of nervous breakdown" during a row with Ms Heard, but denied he had violently attacked her and accused her of cutting his finger by throwing a bottle at him.
The revelations came on the third day of Mr Depp's appearance in the witness stand as he sues the publisher of tabloid newspaper The Sun, News Group Newspapers, over an article in which it labelled the actor a "wife beater".
The court heard that Mr Depp was on the Gold Coast in March 2015 to film Pirates of the Caribbean a month after the couple married.
Ms Heard, an actress, had flown to join him from London, where she had been making a movie with co-star Billy Bob Thornton.
The Sun's lawyer Sasha Wass said Ms Heard suffered a three-day ordeal at Mr Depp's hands in the rented house where the actor was staying after she became angry at him because he had been drinking to excess and taking drugs.
Consumed with jealousy about Ms Heard and Mr Thornton, Mr Depp attacked her, constantly swigging from a bottle, Ms Wass said.
He slapped Ms Heard across the face, pushed her against the fridge and smashed her head against it, and she barricaded herself in her bedroom to escape him, the court was told.
Ms Wass said at one stage Mr Depp spat in her face, grabbed her by the throat and told her it would be easy to crush her neck.
He agreed the couple had a violent row on the final day that began because he wanted Ms Heard to sign a post-nuptial agreement, and he had not been drinking until that point.
Mr Depp described the incident in Australia as the end of the marriage, after which it was only going to get worse.
'Some species of a nervous breakdown'
Mr Depp said Ms Heard threw two vodka bottles at him, the second of which "severed my finger and crushed my bones".
"That is when I began what I feel was perhaps some species of a nervous breakdown," he told the court.
He said he began to write messages on the wall in blood using his severed finger, before then using paint.
One message on a mirror said: "Starring Billy Bob, Easy Amber".
He agreed he might have ripped a telephone off the wall and smashed it and told Ms Heard that she had ruined his life.
Ms Wass told the court the house was a scene of "carnage" with paint everywhere and windows and the television smashed.
It caused $75,000 of damage, according to Mr Depp's assistant.
Earlier Mr Depp denied attacking Ms Heard while undergoing detox to ease himself off prescription drugs on his private island in the Bahamas in August 2014.
Mr Depp told the court it was the "lowest point of my life", when he was in a great deal of pain, suffering uncontrollable spasms and sobbing like a child on the floor.
He accused Ms Heard of withholding medication that would ease the process, calling it "one of the cruellest things that she has ever done", the court was told.
However, Ms Wass said Ms Heard, 34, was following instructions from Mr Depp's medical team and pointed out she had contacted a nurse who was staying on the island to say he was screaming and had pushed her.
"I was not in a condition to do so in any case."
Mr Depp has told the court that the abuse allegations were a hoax, and Ms Heard appeared to have been building a dossier as an insurance policy.
The trial is due to last three weeks.
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2020-07-09 17:37:00Z
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