The actress’ lawyers belongs to amber resumed their interrogation Johnny Depp in a Virginia court today, Thursday, focusing on his drug and alcohol use, as well as text messages the actor sent to a friend about wanting to kill and embarrass his then-wife.
Heard’s attorneys are trying to derail Depp’s defamation lawsuit against her over a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post that Depp alleges indirectly defamed him and ruined his lucrative acting career. In the article, Heard described himself as a “public figure representing domestic violence.”
Depp has testified that Heard was the aggressor in the relationship and that despite her allegations, he never physically or sexually abused her. Heard’s attorneys argue that Depp can’t deny what happened because he used to drink so much and use drugs that he doesn’t remember what he did.
Heard’s attorney, J Benjamin Rottenbornfocused on a text message exchange between Depp and the actor in 2013 Paul Betty in which Depp said: “Let’s burn Amber!!!”
Bettany replied: “Having thought about it, I don’t think we should burn Amber…”
Depp wrote: “Let’s drown them before we burn them! I’ll go to her burned body afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”
Depp previously apologized to the jury for the vulgar language in the lyrics and He said that “I went to dark places in the heat of the pain I was feeling.”
Rottenborn also focused on another text from Depp to Bettany in 2014, in which he mentioned whisky, pills and powder.
The text messages were sent during a period when Depp said he had quit drinking. Y They were dispatched around the time of a private flight from Boston to Los Angeles, on which Heard said Depp got drunk and assaulted them.
Rottenborn conveyed text messages that Depp sent to Bettany, saying he “drank all night before I picked Amber up to fly to Los Angeles last Sunday … It was ugly, friend…no food for days…powder…half a bottle of whiskey, a thousand Red Bulls and vodkas, pills, 2 bottles of champagne on the plane…”
Depp previously testified that he took two pills of oxycodone, an opiate he admits was addicted to at the time, locked himself in the plane’s bathroom and fell asleep to avoid being bothered by Heard. He also stated that he only had one glass of champagne on the plane.
To further challenge Depp’s claims that he wasn’t a problem drinker at the time, Heard’s attorney showed the jury a text message Depp sent to the musician. Patty Smith about a visit to New York in 2014, in which he said he had a fight with Heard, got drunk and was “very disappointed in myself”.
Depp testified in Fairfax County Circuit Court on Tuesday afternoon. The actor spent much of that time describing the couple’s volatile relationship and denying that he ever abused Heard.
He said Heard often lashed out at him, arguing that his film career suffered after she wrote and published her article in The Washington Post.
Heard didn’t mention Depp by name in the article, but Depp’s attorneys say it’s a clear indication of allegations Heard made when he filed for a restraining order against the actor in 2016.
Depp said the allegations and the article contributed to an unjustly tarnished reputation that made him a Hollywood outcast and cost him his role in the lucrative Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.
When the interrogations began on Wednesday afternoon, Rottenborn pointed to evidence of this Disney He made this decision months before the article was published.
Heard’s attorneys argue that his article was truthful and did not defame him. They also said that Depp ruined his own reputation with his bad behavior.
Tuesday at the booth Depp called the allegations of drug addiction “grotesquely embellished,” although he admitted to using a lot of drugs. He said his drug use began at age 11, when he secretly took his mother’s “nerve pills.”