Depp’s bloody bizarre day
Severed digit evidence
JOHNNY Depp “accidentally” headbutted his ex-wife Amber Heard and painted the words “I love U” in blood with his severed finger on a mirror in a house he trashed on the Gold Coast.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star’s bizarre libel case in London’s High Court produced another day of startling claims, including allegations he took 10 ecstasy pills in two hours and drew a penis on a picture of a woman in a bikini.
The total damage to the house during a “three-day ordeal of assaults” on Heard in March 2015 was $150,000, the court heard.
The couple were staying in Queensland while he filmed one of the Pirates movies.
Depp denied he had told Heard “Look what you made me do” when she saw the damage the next morning, which also included a smashed TV and the defaced picture.
Sasha Wass QC, acting for British newspaper The Sun in Depp’s libel case over an article which called him a “wife beater”, put it to the actor he had used his severed finger instead of a paintbrush to graffiti a mirror.
Depp, who claims his finger was severed by a bottle of vodka thrown at him by Heard, replied: “At first, I had used my blood.”
In a separate incident in Los Angeles in 2015, Depp said he “accidentally” headbutted his ex-wife.
Depp said he had only headbutted her in the “f ..... g forehead”, which he said “didn’t break a nose”, according to a recording of the actor played to the court.
After hearing the recording, the 57-year-old actor said it was part of a dossier Heard, 34, had been building.
“She was swinging wildly at me … from behind, as I was walking away from the argument to my office, she was hitting me in the neck, ear, back, everything,” he said.
“I turned to cover my head and she was swinging quite wildly so the only thing I could do in that situation was either to run or to try to get hold of her, to get my arms around her to stop her flailing and punching me, so I did so, as I did so it seems there was a collision.”
The court was also shown a series of photographs of injuries that Heard claimed Depp had inflicted. The actor said the injuries in the photos did not match up with his alleged attacks.
Depp admitted he had referred to their relationship as a “crime scene waiting to happen”.
The case continues.