Another confrontation in this painful divorce … Six years after their separation, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp clashed on Tuesday for their defamation lawsuit, first brought by the actor after his ex-wife denounced facts of domestic violence in a forum, then by the actress, in reaction. The two ex-spouses claim more than 150,000 dollars in compensation.
But the debates first revolved around very serious accusations of violence, the lawyers recounting bouts of “anger“which culminated in physical and sexual violence, cocktails of alcohol, drugs, cocaine, ecstasy and hallucinogenic mushrooms. An addiction to certain substances that the actor never denied.
On the other hand, he has always opposed any domestic violence recounted in detail by his ex-wife’s lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft. “Unfortunately, the monster (…) appeared when he was drinking or taking drugs“, she evoked in front of the court, telling that Johnny Depp had in him”a huge anger“who turned him into”demon” who “verbally, psychologically, physically and sexually assaulted“Amber Heard. The actress’s lawyer also alleged that Johnny Depp went so far as to penetrate her with a glass bottle during a 2015 argument in Australia.
Serious accusations from the actressAquamanwho added that he experienced scenes of violence in 2015, on the set of the fifth part of Pirates of the Caribbean. According to the actress mother of a little girl named Oonagh Paige, she never separated from a makeup kit to hide her bruises. Johnny Depp, meanwhile, has completely refuted these statements, his lawyer evoking “devastating words when false and spoken publicly“.
According to him, Amber Heard would have filed a complaint to avenge her decision to divorce, denouncing the sexual violence much later, “in the wake of the MeToo movement“. The 35-year-old actress had already seen her version undermined several years ago, when she sent a letter to the one who was still her husband at the time threatening to destroy his reputation if he did. he actually intended to divorce.
Even if no physical violence has yet been proven, it would seem that the witnesses report a difficult atmosphere between them, sometimes even verbally aggressive. The actor’s sister would have spoken in particular of a woman “always in conflict“, who “greatly exaggerated her husband’s alcohol and drug problems”calling it “fat old man“.
But other witnesses, personalities in particular, have yet to appear … At the time of the first accusations, Vanessa Paradis, who had shared the life of the actor for fourteen years (and mother of his two children, Lily-Rose and Jack ), had immediately declared that she knew of no violence against him.