Paul Bettany says it was “embarrassing” to have texts with Johnny Depp shared in trial
24.02.2022 - 19:35
/ nme.com
Johnny Depp shared in court during the latter’s libel trial as “embarrassing”.Back in 2020, Depp sued The Sun newspaper over a column that referred to the actor as a “wife beater”.A series of texts between Bettany and Depp – who have starred in three films together – were read aloud in the trial, where they joked about “drowning” Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard to prove she wasn’t a witch.One of the messages written by Bettany, sent in 2013, read: “I’m not sure we should burn Amber. She is delightful company and pleasing on the eye. We could of course do the English course of action and perform a drowning test.
Thoughts? You have a swimming pool?”In response, Depp wrote: “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”Bettany replied: “My thoughts entirely. Let’s be certain before we pronounce her a witch.”After the actor previously addressed the texts last year, Bettany has now spoken about his involvement in the trial further in an interview with The Times.“We live in a world without context,” Bettany said. “I didn’t know Johnny when he was married to Amber.
I knew him before. But we hadn’t spoken for years. During the marriage, I didn’t know them.
So I wasn’t around for any of that.”After describing the court trial as an “embarrassing” and “very surreal moment”, Bettany added: “I know how this works. Anything that you say is oxygen for a fire. And there’s just no fucking fire.“The only real way to deal with this elegantly is to say: I’m not sure there’s anybody who has one of these devices that would feel comfortable having a team of lawyers scour their private text messages.”Depp lost the libel case after Judge Mr Justice Nicol found the words to be “substantially
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