Wife Amber punched me twice in face, claims Depp
JOHNNY Depp was punched twice in the face by his wife in a heated row when he arrived two hours late for her birthday party, the actor’s lawyers have claimed.
Actress Amber Heard, 32, who divorced the star last year, is alleged to have been ‘aggressive and violent’ to Depp, 55, after guests left the party.
Legal papers lodged in London’s High Court by the Pirates of the Caribbean star claim she was abusive towards him in April 2016. They allege Miss Heard ‘began criticising the claimant for being late’.
Pointing out that Depp was ‘not drunk or high on drugs’, they said ‘Miss Heard, who had been drinking, became aggressive and violent... punching him twice in the face.’ Miss Heard was granted £5.3million in a divorce settlement after she showed photos of facial bruises allegedly caused by Depp when he threw a mobile phone at her. She claimed he was physically and emotionally abusive towards her throughout their 15-month marriage.
Last night a lawyer for Miss Heard denied the punching allegations and expressed concerns about Depp’s ‘state of mind’, pointing to a recent interview where he was said to be ‘incoherent’.
The lawyer said: ‘These allegations are totally false. One needs only read the recent Rolling Stone article about Mr Depp and the lawsuit filed against him by a location manager, among many other recent news stories and lawsuits, to understand his state of mind.’
The new allegations emerged as part of a libel case by Depp against a newspaper. Miss Heard filed a domestic violence restraining order against the star at the end of their marriage. As part of the divorce, she withdrew her claims that he was a wife-beater and he retracted the suggestion that she was a gold-digger.
‘She’d been drinking and was violent’