The former couple accuse each other of defamation during this trial, which is being held in Fairfax, near Washington, following a column published in the “Washington Post” in 2018.
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He said to himself “deeply shocked”. Hollywood actor Johnny Depp categorically dismissed, on Tuesday April 19, in an American court, the accusations of violence made by his ex-wife Amber Heard. “I have never hit Miss Heard or any other woman in my life”, he said. Amber Head’s allegations are “odious and disturbing” and “based on any kind of truth”he insisted again.
The former couple accuse each other of defamation during this lawsuit, which is being held in Fairfax, near Washington, after the publication of a tribune in the washington post in 2018. In this text, the 35-year-old actress did not name Johnny Depp, 58, whom she had married in 2015. But she mentioned the accusations of domestic violence that she had brought against her husband in 2016.
Questioned by one of his lawyers, Johnny Depp assured Tuesday that he had filed a complaint for “set the facts”declaring himself “obsessed with the truth”. If he admitted to having been dependent on opiates for several years, before his relationship with Amber Heard, he explained to the court that he took these drugs as “self-medication” and not have “never lost control”. “Miss Heard’s characterization of my so-called drug addiction is grossly exaggerated and, I’m sorry to say, but much of it is just plain wrong”criticized Johnny Depp.
In court the week before, his ex-wife’s lawyers described Johnny Depp as a “freak” when he drank or took drugs. Johnny Depp had in him “huge anger” which transformed it into “demon” who “verbally, psychologically, physically and sexually assaulted” Amber Heard, explained Me Bredehoft. The actress never separated from a makeup kit to hide the bruises on her face, said the lawyer, who plans to show the jury “shocking pictures” of abuse.