Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are issuing statements amid their ongoing defamation trial.
21.04.2022 - 18:49 / deadline.com
Johnny Depp’s own threatening words about Amber Heard and his substance abuse issues came back to haunt the actor today in the $50 million defamation trial.
As the one-time couple and Run Diary co-stars battles over domestic abuse claims by Heard against Depp, the defense team put the spotlight on a series of profanity filled and incendiary texts from the former Pirates of the Caribbean star to fellow thespian and late night pal Paul Bettany.
Public for years and brought up in various legal actions, the damning 2013 and 2014 exchanges between Depp and WandaVision star Bettany detail the former’s desire to “burning”, “drowning,” and having sex with the “burnt corpse” of Heard.
Much more subdued than in the highly charged closing minutes of yesterday’s testimony, a black suited Depp was asked at length about his abusive childhood and his aspirations to meet the standards of a “Southern gentleman,” as defense attorney Ben Rottenborn termed it. Still, Depp’s frustration with the lawyer’s probing was evident. “I don’t feel like I am wasting anyone’s time, sir,” the actor piped up on one occasion as Rottenborn tried to cut short a longwinded reply.
Evoking the name of the Avengers alum, Rottenborn listed off the substances that Depp and Bettany were said to have ingested in their times together, including cocaine, Xanax and Adderall, as well as booze. The defense lawyer also used the line of questioning as a way to slip in a reference to Depp’s unsuccessful 2020 UK libel trial against The Sun tabloid for calling the actor a “wife-beater” in print. That British matter is only allowed to be introduced to the jury in very specific context.
Laying a very obvious foundation to counter Depp and his team’s assertion of the actor’s
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are issuing statements amid their ongoing defamation trial.
Johnny Depp is currently in the midst of a defamation trial against his ex wife Amber Heard.
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