14 TIMES ...over three stormy years, the tally of attacks she claims he launched on her

1. EARLY 2013

MISS Heard says Depp was completely sober until early 2013. Around that time he allegedly hit her for the first time when they were in Los Angeles. She claims Depp later cried and apologised, telling her that he sometimes turns into ‘the monster’ when he snaps. Depp has expressly denied hitting Miss Heard and said that around that time he had confined himself to ‘drinking wine and using marijuana, having been sober from around December 2011 to August 2012’.

2. MARCH 8, 2013

Miss Heard claims Depp was angry she had hung a painting, by her ex-partner Tasya Van Ree, by her bed in her LA home. He tried to set the painting on fire and hit her so hard that blood from her lip ended up on the wall. Depp, however, says he simply asked Miss Heard to move the painting from the bedroom ‘ as a courtesy’ and that she had an ‘ extreme reaction’. He also says a text he sent later, describing the evening as a ‘disco bloodbath’, was to placate Miss Heard and not an apology for alleged violence.

3. JUNE 2013

Miss Heard and Depp were in Hicksville, US, with a group including her sister Whitney and his assistant Nathan Holmes.

Miss Heard says Depp, who was taking drugs, became ‘enraged’ and ‘jealous’ when one of her friends touched her. He threw glasses at her, ripped her dress and damaged the cabin they were staying in.

Depp says he drank and took magic mushrooms, as did Miss Heard and her friends who also took MDMA.

He claims Miss Heard’s friend touched her in an ‘extremely sexual manner’ and he spoke to her to ask her to stop.

4. MAY 24, 2014

The pair took a private plane from Boston to LA. Miss Heard says that during the flight Depp, who had been drinking heavily, threw objects at her, pushed a chair at her, slapped her and kicked her in the back before passing out in the toilet.

Depp says Miss Heard ‘ began to harangue him’ as he was sketching in a notebook, he then tried to ‘playfully tap her on the bottom with his foot’, at which Miss Heard took ‘great offence’ and continued to verbally berate him.

5. AUGUST 17, 2014

The couple went to the Bahamas – Depp says to cure his dependence on painkillers, although Miss Heard claims he was trying to give up other drugs too.

She says he had ‘several manic episodes’ and his private doctor had to be flown over to help. She alleges that he slapped, kicked and grabbed her by the hair during an attack.

Depp alleges that Miss Heard stopped a nurse from giving him treatment while he was going through withdrawal.

6. DEC 17, 2014

Miss Heard says Depp was violent towards her in LA and later texted, calling himself a ‘****ing savage’ and a ‘lunatic’. Depp denies any allegation of violence and says The Sun’s publisher has ‘failed to provide any particulars of the alleged violence’.

7. JANUARY 25, 2015

While the couple were in Tokyo, Miss Heard claims, Depp shoved and slapped her and grabbed her by the hair, before standing over her and shouting while she was on the floor. Depp denies this.

8. MARCH, 2015

Depp is said to have repeatedly assaulted Miss Heard after an argument over his alleged use of MDMA during a three-day trip to Australia. She says he stayed up all night, taking pills and drinking, and then attacked her again the next morning.

The following night, he pushed her into a table tennis table, tore off her nightgown and attacked her, before smashing a telephone into a wall and severing the top of his middle finger.

She claims he wrote messages to her around the house in a mixture of paint and blood from his finger – which Mr Depp admits doing while ‘in shock’ – as well as having ‘urinated all over the house in an attempt to write messages’, which he denies.

Depp says Miss Heard was in ‘a prolonged and extreme rage’ following an argument over a post-nuptial agreement. He says he then ‘ broke my sobriety’ with several glasses of vodka, before Miss Heard threw a bottle at him, severing the top of his finger, and stubbed a cigarette out on his cheek.

9. MARCH 2015

Miss Heard says Depp became enraged when they were in LA with her sister and began destroying things in the house before hitting her ‘hard and repeatedly’. She also claims he tried to push her sister down the stairs before hitting her again.

Depp says Miss Heard was ‘berating him in a rage’ as he tried to leave, threw a can of Red Bull at him and punched him in the face before he left.

10. AUGUST 2015

While they were on the Eastern and Oriental Express in south-east Asia, Miss Heard alleges Depp picked a fight with her, hit her and pushed her against a wall by the throat, causing her to fear for her life. This is denied by Depp.

11. NOV 26, 2015

In LA, Depp is alleged to have ripped Miss Heard’s shirt and ‘threw her around the room’, throwing a wine glass and a heavy glass decanter at her, as well as pushing her over a chair which caused her to bang her head against a wall.

Depp says they were in LA for Thanksgiving, but denies any abuse.

12. DEC 15, 2015

Miss Heard claims Depp threw a decanter at her in their penthouse in LA, then slapped her and dragged her through the apartment by her hair, pulling ‘ large chunks’ from her scalp.

She says he then followed her upstairs and pushed her to the floor while shouting ‘you think you’re a ****ing tough guy’ before headbutting her. Miss Heard says that when she told Depp she wanted to leave him, he grabbed her and screamed: ‘I ****ing will kill you – I’ll ****ing kill you, you hear me?’

Depp says Miss Heard fabricated the alleged violence, falsely claiming that blonde hair on the floor was her hair.

He also claims that the only violence committed on that date was by Miss Heard, who ‘violently attacked’ him.

13. APRIL 21, 2016

Miss Heard says Depp arrived home late for her birthday party ‘drunk and high on drugs’ and they had an argument after the guests had left.

She claims he threw a bottle of champagne at her and shoved her to the floor several times before leaving a note reading: ‘ Happy **** ing Birthday.’

Depp says he arrived around two hours late following a meeting with his new business manager and accountants, and that he was not on drugs but ‘ shocked from what he had learnt at the meeting about his business affairs’.

He claims Miss Heard had been drinking heavily and attacked him while he was reading in bed, punching him in the face four times before he grabbed her arms to stop her.

The next day, he says, Miss Heard or one of her friends defecated in their bed, with Miss Heard later telling the building manager Kevin Murphy that it was ‘just a harmless prank’ – at which point Depp ‘resolved to divorce Miss Heard’.

14. MAY 21, 2016

Depp arrived at their LA apartment, allegedly ‘drunk and high’ while Miss Heard was there with friends. She said he became very angry, throwing her phone at her and hitting her in the eye before smashing ‘everything he could’ with a magnum of champagne.

He says he went to the apartment with two security guards to collect his belongings after Miss Heard and her sister repeatedly tried to contact him. Depp claims his two security guards entered the room when they heard Miss Heard shouting, and saw her repeatedly screaming ‘Stop hitting me, Johnny’ while he was 20ft away in the kitchen.

He says that two police officers who attended the apartment after the incident ‘saw no injuries or bruising or swelling’.