Depp wife Amber’s violent birthday party from hell
He hurled champagne bottle, threw phone at her face and taunted her for soiled bed ‘joke’, court told
JOHNNY Depp hurled a phone at his wife’s face and called her ‘Amber T**d’ for soiling their bed after a blazing row on her 30th birthday party, it was claimed yesterday.
The High Court was shown a photograph of Amber Heard’s bruised face, which the Hollywood star agreed showed a red mark.
Depp had been late for his wife’s party on April 21, 2016, and after a booze-fuelled row he allegedly threw a magnum of champagne at her and shoved her to the floor several times before leaving a note reading ‘Happy ****ing Birthday’.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star is suing The Sun newspaper for calling him a wife beater in a 2018 article. Miss Heard is the newspaper’s star witness and claims he attacked her on 14 occasions before and during their turbulent marriage, including a terrifying incident in Australia in which Depp’s finger was severed.
Yesterday, on the actor’s fourth day in the oakpanelled witness box, Sasha Wass QC, for The Sun, asked him about the ‘defecation incident’ and whether it could be blamed on the couple’s tiny teacup Yorkshire terrier Boo.
Depp, 57, said he had been two hours late for the party at the couple’s Los Angeles penthouse after receiving some bad news about his financial affairs from his accountants and smoking cannabis to relieve his stress.
When the party finished, Depp said he went to bed to read a book, but his wife ‘ was venting how upset she was that I was so late for her birthday dinner and that I had made a fool of her and that I didn’t care... she was very, very angry.’ He claimed Miss Heard had punched him in the face four times before he grabbed her arms to stop her.
Miss Wass said Depp had picked up a bottle of champagne and thrown it at Miss Heard, missing, with the glass smashing, which he denied. She also alleged he grabbed her by the hair and pushed her on to the bed, which he said wasn’t true. When she asked if he had left the ‘Happy ****ing Birthday’ note, he replied: ‘I don’t know that I did, but it is very, very possible.’
He says the next day, Miss Heard or one of her friends ‘defecated’ in their marital bed, and he believed his wife was responsible after she told the building manager it was ‘just a harmless prank’. Depp ‘resolved’ to divorce her, describing it as a ‘strangely oddly fitting end to the relationship’.
Miss Wass claimed Depp had found the faeces incident ‘hilarious’ and that ‘there were jokes like “Amber T**d”, and “Amber in the dumps” ’. Depp agreed that ‘ initially I did laugh, because it was so strange’. He said the mystery of the mess could not be blamed on Boo. ‘It was not left by a three or four-pound dog’, he said.
He told the court he believes Miss Heard, 34, was responsible but admitted it could have been one of her friends.
A month later, Depp came to collect his things from their apartment after deciding to divorce Miss Heard and another row began. In his rage, Miss Wass said, Depp hurled a phone at his wife’s face ‘like someone throwing a baseball’. Depp replied: ‘No, ma’am, not true.’ The court was shown a text message Depp sent Miss Heard saying: ‘I loved you more than anything but you never ****ing loved me... I was merely convenient for you.’
The day after they divorced in 2016, Depp sent a text to Miss Heard’s agent Christian Carino saying: ‘She’s begging for global humiliation. I have no mercy, no fear and not an ounce of emotion or what I thought was love for this gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market.’ Depp tried to get Miss Heard thrown off the sequel to her hit movie Aquaman, Miss Wass claimed.
A recording of Depp in July 2016 begging Miss Heard to ‘cut him’ while he wielded a knife was played to the court. Depp said: ‘I was asking her to cut me... I felt that was what she was doing anyway.’ Under re-examination by his barrister David Sherborne, Depp said his ex-wife was a heavy drinker and said ‘all hell would break loose’ if he dared breach her rules. Miss Heard drank two bottles of wine a night and ‘liked the idea I was the monster’, he said.
He accused her of sabotaging his efforts to go sober by keeping a bottle of whisky in the fridge.
She was a ‘creature of habit’ who liked to chop up his lines of cocaine and then sample some herself, he told the court.
She kept secretly filming him, was having an affair and would fly off the handle if he did not feed her constant ‘need for attention’.
He said Miss Heard would go ballistic at ‘small, mundane issues’.
‘It was almost as if there were rules, she has a routine and if that routine isn’t met to her standards then there was going to be a problem.’ Mr Sherborne asked what would happen if he broke his ex-wife’s ‘rules’, to which Depp replied: ‘An argument would ensue and all hell would break loose.’
The case continues, with Depp, who had been expected to finish his evidence yesterday, returning to the witness box on Monday.
‘She’s begging for global humiliation’