Still on the ongoing defamation trial involving American actor Johnny Depp and his estranged wife, actress Amber Heard, taking the stand in the Fairfax, Virginia court, the hosts had a lot to say.
Actor Johnny Depp took the stand in court saying that never did he reach the point of striking Ms. Heard in any way, nor have he ever struck any woman in my life.
Depp in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, sued the actress for more than $50 million, saying her claims of domestic abuse have harmed his career and reputation. He demanded $100 million for damages.
Depp on Tuesday said,
“I’m obsessed with the truth so today is my first opportunity that I’ve been able to speak about this case in full for the first time,” Depp told the court. “I felt a responsibility of clearing the record.”
Talking about the early days of his relationship with Heard he said,
“In the beginning of my relationship with Ms. Heard, it was, from what I recall and what I remember, she was … too good to be true,” Depp said. “She was attentive, loving; she was smart, she was kind, she was funny, she was understanding.”
“I would come in the house or hotel, and she would sit me down on the couch and give me a glass of wine, and take my boots off, set them to the side,” he recalled. “And I’d never experienced anything like that in my life.”
“I thought that was strange,” he said, adding that from that moment on, he began noticing other changes. “Within a year or year and half, she had become another person, almost.”
“It was self-medication … to take the edge off,” he told the jury. He claimed that by age 15 he had tried every drug he knew of, but that it was never for the sake of partying. Rather, it was to “dull the pain” of the traumas he had endured.
“I am not some maniac who needs to be high or loaded all the time,” he said. “The quote, un-quote substance abuse that has been delivered by Ms. Heard is grossly embellished and sorry to say, a lot of it is plainly false.”
Depp also talked about his childhood,
“There was physical abuse, which could be in the form of an ashtray being flung at you or you’d get beat with a high-heeled shoe, or a telephone or whatever was handy,” Depp said. “So in our house we were never exposed to any kind of safety or security. The only thing that one could do really, was to try to stay out of the line of fire.”
“I thought it was diabolical that my children would have to go to school and have their friends or people in the school approach them with the People magazine cover with Ms. Heard with a dark bruise on her face,” he added.
