Depp denies dog act

Amber Heard outside court; showing her bruises (right); lines of cocaine (below)

JOHNNY Depp held Amber Heard’s dog Pistol out the window of a moving car while making “howling noises” and joked about putting the puppy in a microwave, a court was told.

A blockbuster libel case in London’s High Court also heard claims the actor slapped his former wife on a private jet in 2014 after becoming jealous when she was cast in a movie with James Franco.

He called her a “go-getter slut” and a “whore”, according to claims in the court case over a newspaper article that called him a “wife beater”. Depp was expected to go back into the witness stand for a further two days of questioning, after lawyers sought an extension. Heard’s dogs Pistol and Boo were major news in Australia in 2015 when they were smuggled into the country while he was filming the Pirates of the Caribbean on the Gold Coast, raising the ire of then deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce. Heard was charged with smuggling and forced to apologise in a video with Depp for breaching biosecurity laws. Depp, 57, clarified in court on Wednesday his witness statement saying he did not consume drugs or alcohol on the flight from Boston to Los Angeles in 2014 where the argument about Franco was alleged to have taken place. He had said he had been drinking before getting on the flight but he was shown a text message he had sent to a friend that contradicted his statement.

“I’m going to properly stop the booze thing, darling,” he wrote to actor Paul

Bettany after the flight.

“Drank all night before I picked Amber up to fly to LA this past Sunday.

“Ugly mate. No food for days. Powders. Half a bottle of whisky.

“A thousand Red Bull and vodkas, pills, 2 bottles of champers on plane and what do you get? An angry aggro injun in a f..king blackout, screaming obscenities and insulting any f..ker who got near.”

Depp has been suing The Sun newspaper over an article written by executive editor Dan Wootton, who broke the story of Harry and Meghan’s departure from the royal family in January.

He has said the case was about clearing his name, but The Sun has claimed it has evidence of 14 cases of domestic abuse that it argued proved the original article was true.

Heard, 34, had written a message to Depp’s personal assistant after the flight that read: “I don’t know how to be around him after what he did to me yesterday.”

Depp denied he had put Pistol out of a car window or that he thought that type of behaviour would be funny.

“I can say it is a very endearing image, but it is absolute utter falsity, it is fraudulent,” he said.

“No ma’am, I don’t think hanging an animal, a small defenceless dog that weighs three pounds, out of a window is fun.”

He also told the court Pistol had eaten some hashish, a type of marijuana, which the puppy had “scooped up before I could get to it”.

The case continues.

Boo and Pistol (top right); Depp slumped over; and outside court this week