Johnny Depp defended by director - 'Never saw him act negatively'

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard engaged in “mutual abuse” throughout their relationship, a therapist for the couple has said. Laurel Anderson, a clinical psychotherapist who saw the pair on multiple occasions, said Mr Depp told her that his former wife “gave as good as she got” during their fights. The actor is suing Ms Heard for libel over a 2018 op-ed written in the Washington Post which his lawyers say contained false allegations that he physically and sexually assaulted her while they were married.

Amber Heard's former personal assistant accused the "Aquaman" actress of creating an abusive work environment in a videotaped deposition played Thursday during actor Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife in Fairfax, Virginia. Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 35, for $50 million over an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post alleging she was the victim of domestic abuse. Heard never identified Depp directly, but attorneys for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor say her allegations have negatively impacted Depp's career and relationship with his family.

Piers Morgan has branded Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard “self-obsessed whiny wastrels” amid their ongoing legal battle. Johnny, 58, and Amber, 35, married in 2015 but just one year later, they split acrimoniously as Amber claimed Johnny had been violent towards her, filing for divorce and a temporary restraining order.

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Johnny Depp is many things to many people. He’s a late ’80s heartthrob, thanks to 21 Jump Street. He’s a GenX icon thanks to Edward Scissorhands, Cry-Baby, Benny and Joon, and other era films. Johnny’s a box-office smash, courtesy of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. He a rockstar with his bands, most prominently the Hollywood Vampires. But, to three people on this planet, Johnny is a brother. The Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas star has a trio of siblings who have seen him grow into the man he is today. Here’s what you need to know about them.

Johnny Depp was an ‘obsessed ex-husband hell-bent on revenge’, a court has heard, as the actor’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard got underway in the US state of Virginia.  Lawyers on behalf of the Justice League actress said Mr Depp had sought to ‘ruin her life’ and that the situation was ‘disturbing, but not surprising’.  The 58-year-old Pirates Of The Caribbean actor is suing Heard, his former partner, for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post in which she discussed her experiences of domestic abuse.

Amber Heard's defence attorney claimed Johnny Depp would try to turn the defamation cause against his ex-wife into a "soap opera," but warned that it was a distraction. Ben Rottenborn, Heard's lawyer, said the case was about her First Amendment rights to discuss her experiences, and argued that context matters and asked the jury to read the entire article she wrote for The Washington Post – which led to the lawsuit – and not just the parts highlighted by Depp.

“To me, it’s like some journal — they all represent different times in my life,” Johnny Depp told The Washington Post in 1995 when discussing his many tattoos. “If you see them, that’s one thing — but if I explain them to you, that would be like walking you through my journal.” Since his first time getting inked — “I was a kid who dropped out of high school, who got his first tattoo at 17, who played rock-and-roll. That was just the chain of events,” he says — Johnny has documented many important moments of his life on his skin. So, take a look at his life by viewing his multiple tattoos.

an op-ed published in The Washington Post in December 2018. While Depp wasn’t named in the article, he claims in his lawsuit that it implied he abused her, which he says negatively impacted his career.Depp and Heard married in 2015 but split in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him and accused him of abusing her.

Johnny Depp latest lawsuit against Amber Heard is kicking off in Virginia.

Over the next six weeks, the trial of Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard that commences today could prove to be the biggest roles of the former couple’s careers.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAfter losing in a U.K. court in 2020, Johnny Depp will get a second chance to try to refute allegations that he abused ex-wife Amber Heard at a trial opening today in Virginia.Depp sued Heard in 2019 over an op-ed she published in the Washington Post in which she alluded to prior allegations against Depp, saying she had become “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”She did not identify Depp by name in the op-ed or go into any details of the abuse, instead focusing on the backlash she had endured since making the claims in 2016 and the work still remaining for the #MeToo movement.