Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterFrom his office window, attorney Jon Katz has a direct view of the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia, and for the past several weeks, he has watched fans gathering outside to catch a glimpse of Johnny Depp.The trial pitting the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, is the biggest case Katz can recall in 20 years of practicing criminal defense in the area. He also does free-speech work — clients have included strip clubs, adult toy shops and the Westboro Baptist Church — so he has a professional stake in the outcome.“I want a verdict against both of them,” he says.Depp and Heard are suing each other for defamation. Depp alleges that Heard destroyed his career when she accused him of domestic violence.
Johnny Depp Details Amber Heard's Drug Use & 'Need For Violence' -- Says She Would Threaten To Kill Herself If He Left!
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Johnny Depp once again took the stand on Wednesday in his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, and boy did it get graphic.
As we reported, the Pirates of the Caribbean star began his testimony on Tuesday, denying that he had ever hit the Aquaman star or any other woman. As his testimony under direct examination (that’s being questioned by his attorneys) continued the next day, Depp once again stressed that he never responded to Amber with violence, telling the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom:
Picking up where he left off, the Oscar nominee detailed his and Amber’s former dynamic when they were a couple and living together. At that point, Johnny made a shocking claim: that Heard would allegedly threaten to kill herself when he tried to flee from their fights!
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The 58-year-old insisted that Amber was the one who would instigate and drag out the nasty blowouts they often got into (which he tape-recorded), claiming that Heard would demean him, call him a terrible father, and sometimes grow violent — shoving, slapping, or throwing a TV remote at his head.
The actor alleged that Heard would also lampoon him about his substance use — conflicts he said would only prompt him to use more. He shared:
He said about the non-stop fights that Amber would “verbally decimate me or send me into a tailspin or depression.” He described it as a “rapid-fire sort of endless parades of insults.” It reminded him, he said, of the abusive relationship he had with his mother, in which he “wasn’t allowed to be right or allowed to have a voice.”
Johnny said he would often flee from these toxic situations, telling jurors:
He described locking himself
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