Depp’s flavor: Grubby Hubby
Court sees ‘pathetic’ pic of actor passed out with ice cream on crotch
Willy Wonka has really let himself go. A humiliating photo of Johnny Depp snoozing while ice cream melts all over his crotch was shown in a London court on Monday — as the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” star continued to fend off allegations that he beat ex-wife Amber Heard.
Heard took the 2014 photo and “showed me the next day and said, ‘Look at what you’ve become . . . Look at you, it’s pathetic,’ ” the actor recalled during his fifth and final day of testimony in the High Court.
The sensational trial revolves around Depp’s libel lawsuit against The Sun, in which the actor claims the British tabloid defamed him by calling him a “wife-beater” in a 2018 article. His and Heard’s volatile and perverse relationship has taken center stage as The Sun has sought to prove he was abusive.
During his roughly total 23 hours on the stand, the 57-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean’’ actor repeatedly denied ever assaulting the 34-year-old “Aquaman” actress while their seemingly doomed-from-the-start marriage played out over 15 months.
Heard — who is expected to take the stand later in the week — has accused Depp of repeatedly beating her during booze and drug benders and heaping on slurs in the process.
But Depp and his former personal assistant Stephen Deuters — who called Heard a “sociopathic show pony” and “Machiavellian overlord” in texts messages shown in court — testified on Monday that the real aggressor in the marriage was her.
On Monday, Depp’s camp produced the embarrassing photo, which Heard took before Depp agreed to go to his private island in the Bahamas to detox from prescription meds.
“She asked me to hold her tub of ice cream. I have my right hand in my pocket, and I’m holding the ice cream in the other,” Depp recalled.
“I was obviously on the nod and very tired, falling asleep, and the ice cream then spilled all over my leg.”
Depp also claimed that his then-wife socked him with a “haymaker” punch in April 2016, a month before she filed for divorce — and hours after he found out he had just lost $750 million.
“Since ‘Pirates’ 2 and 3, I had — and this is ludicrous to have to state, it’s quite embarrassing — apparently I had made $650 million,” he testified.
But, Depp added, he learned at a business meeting hours before his wife’s 30th birthday party on April 21, 2016, that his former business manager had “stolen my money.”
“I had not only lost $650 million, but I was $100 million in the hole because they had not paid the government my taxes for 17 years,” Depp told the court.
He admitted he may have smoked cannabis between leaving the “very unpleasant and ugly” meeting and attending his wife’s party at their Los Angeles penthouse that night.
“It’s a calming agent for me,” Depp said.
Depp’s lawyer, David Sherborne, pointed out that a nurse at the party recalled Heard “appeared irritable and upset” and “angry with her husband because he’s late.”
That same night, someone pooped in the couple’s bed. Depp has said he be- lieves it may have been Heard who did it as a “prank.”
The actor has been accused of hurling a magnum bottle of champagne at his wife over the course of the night, pushing her to the floor, yanking her by the hair and leaving a note saying, “Happy f--king birth- day.”
But on Monday, he pointed to a recording she made in secret three months later that captured him telling her, “You f--king haymakered me, man,” that night.
“You came around the bed to f- -king start punching on me,” Depp says on the tape.
Asked to explain on what a haymaker was, Depp said, “It’s just a type of wild swinging . . . kind of a roundhouse punch, as it were.”
Depp insisted he couldn’t have hit Heard that night, as she says — because he was wearing a cast on his finger due to lingering complications from an injury he suffered in an earlier fight with Heard.
The actor had testified last week that the tip of his right middle finger was sliced off by a vodka bottle that Heard threw at him during a fight in Australia in March 2015, a month after they were married.
She has said that he cut the tip off himself by slamming around a phone during a jealous alcohol- and drugfueled rage — and that he then used
the bloody finger to scrawl taunts aimed at her over her alleged affairs.
But Depp said on Monday that he got a staph infection from the wound, and that it was so “painful” that he wouldn’t have been able to attack Heard in April 2016 in the way she has claimed he did.
“I flew back from Australia to LA to have surgery on the finger, and at that time, they had put a pin in it, in the broken bone, the fractured bone, but to no avail,” he told the court.
He “ended up getting MRSA, it’s quite a painful disease,” Depp said.
The actor described his cast as having a “little dinosaur” on it to be “more fun.’’
Sherborne, his lawyer, asked him, “With that cast on, would you have been able to grab her hair with one hand and punch her repeatedly with the other?”
Depp replied, “No, sir.”
As he left the witness box on Monday, Depp smiled and quipped to a court worker, “I’m gonna miss you.’’
Later, Trinity Esparza, a concierge at the posh Los Angeles building where the former couple lived, claimed that she did once see Heard with bruises on her neck — but it was after tech tycoon Elon Musk apparently spent the night at the actress’ pad, and not when Depp was there.
Heard has said Depp “wound up his arm like a baseball pitcher’’ and threw her iPhone at her May 21, 2016, striking her right eye.
But Esparza testified that she never saw Heard with any injuries in the days after the alleged assault.
Two days after, “I looked her right in the face as we said hello, and I saw no visible injuries whatsoever to Ms. Heard’s face,’’ Esparza said.
She said it wasn’t until May 27, 2016, that she “noticed for the first time” the actress had a red mark under her right eye.
Esparza also said in a witness statement that she saw “a number of marks on Ms. Heard’s body,” including bruises on her neck and under her left eye as well as a bandage on her arm in June or July 2016 — shortly after the worker spotted Musk leaving the building looking “like he had just woken up with messy hair.”
The Tesla founder — who has been accused by Depp’s camp of having an affair with Heard while she was still with the actor — did not return requests for comment from The Post on Monday. Musk has previously denied having an extramarital affair with Heard.
The Sun’s lawyer, Sasha Wass, challenged Esparza’s claims at one point, telling her, “You wanted to suggest that Mr. Musk had injured her, didn’t you?”
Esparza responded, “I did not suggest that. I don’t know.”
Meanwhile, Deuters, Depp’s former personal assistant, backed up his boss’ claim that Heard “was the abuser in the relationship.”
On the stand, he initially denied ever hearing Depp use terms such as “slut,” “whore” or “c- -t” in reference to Heard — but then he was confronted with a text message from the actor doing just that.
“She’s a c- -t!!!” Depp had written to his assistant as he griped about Heard’s accusations that he was “wasted on something else every night,” the court heard.
Deuters insisted he “didn’t have any recollection” of the crude text from Depp. He also claimed he would “certainly not” use such language himself — only to be shown an even more strongly worded message he himself had written about Heard.
“Sociopathic show pony. Machiavellian overlord. Talentless c--t,” Deuters wrote in one message about Heard in 2016 after she and Depp split, the court was told.
Deuters told the court of his foul messages, “I certainly regret that.”
Depp’s texts contained “extravagances and exaggerations,” the former employee said, with the court hearing one in which Depp said he had “hookers and animals” in his hotel room.
In addition to Heard, Depp’s former partners Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis are both expected to testify during the three-week trial.