EXTRAORDINARY DETAILS OF JOHNNY DEPP AND AMBER HEARD’S MARRIAGE ON DAY ONE OF LIBEL CASE
London: Johnny Depp has denied being a “wife beater” and accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of being the abuser in their marriage on the first day of his libel case.
In a day of lurid evidence at the High Court, the Hollywood star documented his drug-taking history, which started at the age of 11, and how he realised his marriage was over when he found faeces in his bed.
The court heard a claim from Depp that Heard punched him in the face on a plane and also threw bottles of vodka at him, severing his finger.
Depp is suing The Sun’s publisher,
News Group Newspapers (NGN), after an article referred to “overwhelming evidence” that he attacked Heard during their relationship.
Depp is also suing The Sun’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over the article published in April 2018.
Both he and Heard attended London’s High Court for the first day of what is expected to be a three-week trial, arriving through separate entrances and wearing scarves as face masks.
The actor claims it was Heard who was the abuser and he was asked by his barrister David Sherborne about a conversation between the couple in September 2015, which was recorded.
Mr Sherborne read from an extract of the recording, in which Heard said to Depp: “You got hit... but I did not punch you. I did not f ****** deck you. I f ****** was hitting you.”
Heard then went on to say “you are a f ****** baby”, to which Depp said: “Because you start physical fights.”