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The Sun's lawyers told the
court they would show the allegation in the
article was true and that Depp had beaten
ex-wife Amber Heard during violent rages brought
on by alcohol or drugs.
Here is some of the testimony given at London's
High Court by Depp, 57, and Heard, 34.
DEPP
- Depp rejected all allegations that he attacked
his ex-wife and said Heard assaulted him. "For
the avoidance of any doubt, I have never abused
Ms Heard, or, indeed, any other woman, in my
life," Depp said in a written witness statement.
- Depp denied first assaulting Heard at her home
in March 2013 after she mocked one of his
tattoos.
- Depp also denied attacking Heard while filming
in Australia in March 2015. He said she had
thrown a vodka bottle at him during an argument,
severing the tip of his finger. He said he then
suffered "some species of a nervous breakdown"
and began to write messages on the wall in
blood.
- Depp denied assaulting Heard after she became
upset that he was late for her 30th birthday
party in April 2016, saying he was delayed by a
meeting with his business managers where he
learned he had lost $650 million. He accused her
of attacking him while he was reading in bed.
- The day after, a cleaner found faeces in the
couple's bed. "I was convinced it was Miss Heard
herself or one of her cohort," Depp told the
court. "I thought it was a strangely, oddly
fitting end to the relationship."
- Depp said Heard's accusations were part of a
hoax. "She was building a wonderful dossier, an
insurance policy for when we did break up."
- Depp said he had taken "every drug known to
man" by the age of 14 and had struggled to come
to terms with his fame after a difficult
childhood. He used drugs to self-medicate rather
than for recreational purposes and spent $30,000
a month on wine, he said.
- Depp said he modelled himself as a "Southern
Gentleman" who would never strike a woman. He
added what Heard referred to as "the monster"
was him yelling back at her in arguments. "It
would become a screaming match and that was the
monster."
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HEARD
- Heard said Depp attacked her on at least 14
occasions, threatened many times to kill her,
and that he slapped, punched, head-butted,
throttled and kicked her when he became "the
monster" - a violent and jealous alter ego
fuelled by excessive drinking or drug-taking.
"Johnny - the monster - nearly killed me. I
loved the Johnny who was clean and sober," she
said.
- She said while in Australia Depp took drugs,
drank large volumes of alcohol and became
violent and abusive. He grabbed her by the neck,
smashed her head against a refrigerator, choked
her and threw glass bottles at her. "He was
pressing so hard on my neck I couldn't breathe."
"I remember thinking he was going to kill me in
that moment."
- Heard denied throwing a bottle at Depp and
severing part of his finger. He had flung
bottles at her "like grenades" she said. "I only
threw things to escape Johnny when he was
beating me up."
- Heard said she punched Depp in Los Angeles in
2015 because she feared he would push her sister
downstairs.
- She said Depp belittled her work and accused
her of having affairs with actors with whom she
had auditioned or co-starred.
- Heard denied she or one of her friends had
defecated in the bed and said one of their dogs
may have done it.
- A series of texts Heard sent to her mother in
2013 were read out in court by a lawyer: "He's
nuts mom. Violent and crazy. I am heartbroken
that THIS is who I love," Heard said in one of
them.
Closing arguments are expected on Monday. A
verdict is expected to be announced later.
(Compiled by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Janet
Lawrence)
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