Hollywood star Amber Heard says she feared for her life during her marriage to actor Johnny Depp, claiming he threatened to kill her on a number of occasions.
Johnny Depp’s former wife accused the actor on Monday of repeatedly threatening to kill her, disfigure her face if she abandoned him and have her raped if she wore revealing clothes. Amber Heard told the High Court in London that their relationship was scarred by his drug-taking, violence and jealousy.
Depp, 57, is suing Dan Wootton, the executive editor of The Sun, and the newspaper’s publisher over an article in 2018 that described him as a “wife beater”. As Depp watched, Heard, 34, told the court: “The physical abuse and the worst of the verbal abuse would usually happen when he was drunk or high on drugs, which was often. Much of the time he had difficulty recalling what he had done once he had slept it off.”
Heard, a star of the Aquaman superhero film, claimed that Depp openly started taking cocaine after Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones guitarist, visited his private Bahamas island in 2013. “It soon became clear that it was turning into a habit, which, combined with drinking and use of other drugs, many of them on prescription, became a problem,” she said.
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The Sun relies on 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence, all denied by Depp. “The physical abuse included punching, slapping, kicking, head- butting and choking me, as well as throwing me into things, pulling me by my hair and shoving me or pushing me to the ground,” Heard said. “He threw things at me, especially glass bottles.”
Heard said the abuse contributed to her suffering “a severe decline” in her mental and physical health. “I was afraid he was going to kill me, either intentionally or just by losing control and going too far,” she said. “He explicitly threatened to kill me many times.”
Depp told her that “death was the only way out of the relationship” and if she left he would respond by “carving my face up so no one else would want me”, she said, adding that his “controlling and intimidating behaviour” increased during their relationship.
“When I became involved with Johnny everything of mine suddenly became not good enough,” she said: “My clothes weren’t right. My doctor wasn’t right. I would be offered alternatives supplied by Johnny.” Heard said she stopped wearing revealing dresses for red carpet events because of the “verbal and psychological abuse”. “He started saying things like, ‘Well, I’m going to have to watch you get raped’,” she said. Heard added: “He has a unique ability to use his charisma to convey a certain impression of reality. He is very good at manipulating people. With me, he was able to express contrition after acts of violence.
“He would blame his actions on a self-created third party, which he often called ‘the monster’. He would speak about it as if it was another person or personality.” She claimed that Depp surrounded himself with doctors, lawyers and executives who failed to give him “honest feedback”.
“Johnny lives in a state of weaponised victimhood,” she said. “To hear him talk about his childhood or past relationships, he is always the victim. He functions off zero accountability.” She said she could not confront him about his alcohol and drug abuse as “he would get angry and call me ‘the moral police’ ”.
The court was played part of a recorded conversation in which Heard admitted “clocking” Depp in the jaw, pelting him with pots and pans and telling him: “You are such a baby. Grow the f..k up.”
Heard told the court she threw objects “only to escape” Depp. “I did have outbursts of anger and there were times when, yes, I lost my cool,” she said.
She admitted taking the drug MDMA and magic mushrooms after attending the Coachella festival on her 30th birthday without Depp but denied being addicted to “cocaine and liquor”.
Heard also denied lying to try to cover up her British assistant’s illegal work in the US. She said she invited Savannah McMillan to the US as “a friend” who “ran errands”.
Heard later signed a letter to US Homeland Security saying Ms McMillan was not working for her in the US.
Kate James, Heard’s former personal assistant, said last week that the actor asked her to help to draft a letter that falsely claimed that Ms McMillan was just a friend, which meant she would not fall foul of visa regulations. “I knew this to be untrue, and that Amber was therefore wilfully lying,” said Ms James, who was sacked by Heard in 2015.
Depp has told the court he was never violent towards Heard, that she attacked him, and has accused his ex-wife of “building a dossier” of false allegations as an “insurance policy”.
The trial continues.
The Times
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