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 The texts were read to the High
Court in London, where Heard is giving evidence
on behalf of the publishers of a British tabloid
newspaper, The Sun, who are being sued for
defamation by Depp over a 2018 article that
labelled him a "wife beater".
Depp, who gave evidence last week, denies all of
Heard's allegations of violence and abuse and
says she assaulted him.
On Thursday, the last of four days of oral
evidence by Heard, she was asked about an
incident she said had taken place in March 2013,
when the couple were dating but were not yet
married.
In a written statement, Heard says that after a
long session of snorting cocaine and drinking
whisky, Depp had become enraged by the sight of
a painting by her ex-partner, Tasya van Ree,
that was hanging on a wall in her apartment.
She says that was the first of many occasions on
which Depp was violent towards her.
The court heard that Heard had texted her mother
at various points over a period of hours during
which the drug-taking, drinking and violence
took place.
"He's nuts mom. Violent and crazy. I am
heartbroken that THIS is who I love," she said
in one of the texts.
"I feel like I'm on a very fast train that's
about to explode but I don't want to jump off
and leave my love behind. So I stay on the
train. Even though I know it's about to
explode," she said in another.
Asked to explain what she meant by that, Heard
told the court: "I was so in love with Johnny at
that time."
She said that when he was clean and sober, he
was generous and loving. "He's a remarkable man
when he's like that. I didn't want to lose that.
I always held out hope he would get clean and
sober."
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 However, in other texts the
same day, she told her mother that Depp had not
hit her, that she was "ok physically", and that
he was "raging in general" rather than being
violent with her.
Those texts appeared to contradict her sworn
witness statement to the court, in which she
said he had grabbed her, shaken her and shoved
her against a wall during the incident.
Asked why she told her mother that he had not
hurt her, Heard said that her father had been
violent towards her mother throughout their
marriage, and that she became concerned her
mother would tell her father about Depp's
violence towards her. She said she feared her
father's possible reaction to that.
In one of the 2013 series of texts, Heard said
to her mother: "He (Depp) makes dad look like a
saint when he falls off the wagon." In another,
she said: "I can't tell dad."
Heard also texted that "the crazy mood swings
and binges are really difficult for me to
handle".
"My heart is broken," she said. "It's Dr Jekyll
and mr Hyde -- on a binge."
Heard's sister Whitney is due to give evidence
later on Thursday. The trial is set to conclude
next week, although no ruling is expected
immediately.
(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; editing by
Philippa Fletcher)
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