Johnny Depp severed his finger while attacking ME, says Amber Heard

Amber Heard has today claimed that Johnny Depp wrote ‘I love you’ in blood after severing his finger while launching a savage attack on her in which she ‘feared for her life’ while he filmed Pirates of the Caribbean in 2015.

Depp is on the stand at the High Court for a third day today and was questioned about the incident after he previously claimed the injury was sustained when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him during the fight in Australia.

The 34-year-old actress alleges in her statement that she was subjected to ‘a three-day ordeal of physical assault which left her with injuries including a broken lip, swollen nose, and cuts all over her body.’

He used his blood to write the love message on a mirror inside their villa by way of apology, Heard claims, and the picture of the graffiti on the mirror was shown in court.

In a witness statement submitted by Heard, she says: ‘The Claimant [Depp] shoved Ms Heard into a ping pong table, threw bottles through the window panels ofa glass door, then grabbed Ms Heard and tore offher nightgown. The Claimant grabbed Ms Heard by her hair and choked her against the refrigerator in the kitchen.’

It says that Depp then ‘grabbed Ms Heard by the neck and collarbone, slammed her against the countertop, and strangled her. Ms Heard’s arms and feet were slashed by the broken glass on the kitchen countertop and floor. She was scared for her life and told the Claimant, ‘You are hurting and cutting me”.’

Depp ‘vehemently’ denied the allegation and branded it ‘pedestrian fiction’. 

He is being cross-examined on the third day of his libel trial as he sues The Sun after it described him as a ‘wife beater’ following claims by his ex-wife Heard that he repeatedly attacked her.

In other developments at the trial today: 

• Depp was accused of attacking ex-wife Heard during a detox trip to the Bahamas in August 2014;
• Actor claimed Heard withheld his rehab medicine as he lay ‘sobbing like a child’ on his private island; 
• Heard’s movie with actor James Franco allegedly sparked a binge that put Depp in the hospital;
• Depp’s private doctor said he ‘romanticises drug culture and has no accountability for his behaviour’;
• Actor flew into a rage when Heard told him she was meeting novelist Clive Barker at his home, court heard.

Johnny Depp told Amber Heard ‘it would be easy to crush your neck’ during his alleged MDMA-fuelled rage in Australia 

The court heard how Depp had told Heard ‘it would be easy to crush your neck’ as he allegedly strangled her in the MDMA-fuelled rage while filming Pirates of the Caribbean. 

The actor said today he had been ‘unhappy with his career’ after he was afforded less control of script-writing during the third in the fantasy swashbuckler series.

He allegedly received concerned texts from Hollywood screenwriter and friend Stephen Deuters urging him to ‘take a break’ near the time of the incident. 

The Texan allegedly came downstairs one morning in a burgundy negligee given to her as a gift by his private doctor David Kipper, who oversaw Depp’s withdrawal from prescription drugs.

Heard found her ex-husband blasting loud music after bingeing on ecstasy throughout the night and he ripped off the nightgown after she asked if he wanted breakfast, the court heard.

The Sun’s lawyer Sasha Wass QC asked Depp: ‘Mr Deuters was a yes man wasn’t he? He knew how to placate you just like you knew how to placate Ms Heard?’

‘I do not accept that description,’ Depp replied.

Reading a text allegedly sent by Deuters, Ms Wass said: ‘”All anyone wants to see on the screen is the Johnny Depp they know and love. That said you deserve a break. Take some time off and we can discuss other stuff.”

‘What he’s saying is basically you are wonderful and secondly take a break.’

The message went on: ‘To call it an honour to work for you doesn’t do my feelings on the topic any justice whatsoever, you’re the reason I’m in this business by f*** does this business need you.’

‘On looking on it I would say it was a very very kind gesture and a wonderful attempt by a friend to pull me out of what felt like a constant tailspin of constantly being told “you’re wrong and your pardon the term a f***-up and many things like that.

‘Those are things that I can very easily go onto, a state of depression. And so he was trying to take me out of it.’

‘Is that a reference to Ms Heard? Because she would not flatter you?’ Ms Wass asked.

Depp replied: ‘She did flatter me when it was in her interests to do so but there was also a barrage of insults and* accusations about things which never happened.’

‘I was far away from my kids and I was unhappy with my life and my relationship with Ms Heard.

‘I was angry that we were working on the third of the Pirates of the Caribbean films and on the others I’d been able to write some of (the script)… The dialogue.’

Recounting the alleged rampage, Ms Wass said: ‘And on the Friday you had a cigarette in your hand as you do most of the time and you threatened to put it out on your face.’

‘No ma’am,’ came the reply.

‘And you were completely off your head on drink and drugs,’ Ms Wass said.

‘No it didn’t happen,’ Depp said.

‘There were times during the argument with Ms Heard stormed upstairs. And she stayed upstairs and barricaded herself in the bedroom. She pushed furniture against the door,’ the lawyer went on.

‘No,’ Depp replied.

‘The following morning she was wearing a nightgown, remember she had a burgundy nightdress given to her by Dr Kipper?’

‘I don’t recall,’ came the reply.

‘Were you playing music really loudly?’ Ms Wass said.

‘I don’t recall that,’ Depp said.

‘And in the morning do you remember Ms Heard trying to calm you down and suggesting you both have breakfast? Do you recall drinking Jack Daniels from the bottle?’ the QC asked.

‘No ma’am, didn’t happen,’ Depp said.

‘Do you remember a time when Ms Heard tried to take the bottle off you and said you shouldn’t be drinking because of the medication. And you turned on her and said everything your friends had told you about her was right, they were right, you didn’t love her and you held her by the throat against the fridge and you told her it would be easy to crush your neck,’ Ms Wass said.

‘Fabricated and vicious,’ Depp replied.

‘And you were all this time holding onto a bottle of spirits and at one point you offered the bottle to Ms Heard, you were goading her to drink it. And she took the bottle and smashed it to the ground,’ Ms Wass said.

‘No ma’am,’ came the reply.

‘And that gesture set you off and you smashed bottle after bottle,’ the lawyer went on.

‘No ma’am,’ Depp repeated.

The actor hurled jealous accusations that Heard was having an affair with her then co-star Billy Bob Thornton while filming mystery thriller London Fields in the UK, the court heard.

‘You accused her of having affairs with her leading men,’ Ms Wass said.

‘Possibly,’ Depp replied.

‘And at this time you were particularly fixated with Billy Bob Thornton,’ the lawyer said.

‘No ma’am, not until a certain point,’ Depp replied.

The Sun’s QC Sasha Wass began outlining one of the 14 allegations of violence Heard has made against Johnny Depp in the case, which is said to have occurred during a trip to Australia in March 2015.

The barrister said Heard alleges there was a ‘three-day ordeal of assaults, during which you were under the influence of drugs including MDMA and you were violent’. 

Depp said: ‘I vehemently deny it and would go so far as to say it is pedestrian fiction.’ 

He added: ‘I was unhappy with the production of Pirates of the Caribbean, I was unhappy with my life, my relationship, I was far away from my kids. I was unhappy with my life and my relationship with Ms Heard.

‘I was angry by the fact that we were working on the fifth production of Pirates of the Caribbean…and I had to rewrite everything for the character.’

Heard’s arms and feet were allegedly slashed by shattered glass strewn across the floor as she was chased round the room and slammed against a counter top by Depp, the court heard. She was allegedly forced to barricade herself in after he tore off her nightgown and shoved her onto a ping pong table.

Depp told Ms Wass that she seemed ‘more familiar with MDMA than I am’ when asked whether he had been confronted by his ex-wife about a bag of ecstasy pills during the trip.

The actor said he ‘did not recall taking possession of controlled substances,’ in contrast to claims that he spat in her face after chasing the drugs down with liquor.

He insisted that the only attack on the trip had been launched by Heard when she hurled a vodka bottle at him and caused the infamous injury which cut off the top of his finger. 

‘One of the cruelest things that she has ever done’: Johnny Depp says Amber Heard withheld his rehab medicine as he lay ‘sobbing like a child’ and going through withdrawal on his private island in the Bahamas

Depp today accused Heard of withholding his rehab medicine while he lay ‘sobbing like a child’ as he from suffered from withdrawal on a pre-wedding detox trip to his private island in 2014. 

Depp discussed the 2014 trip to the 45-acre island Little Hall Pond’s Cay under cross-examination by The Sun’s QC Sasha Wass and denied kicking Heard, pushing her and grabbing her by the hair while she nursed him through an ‘agonising’ withdrawal from prescription painkiller Roxicodone.

He said he retired to the island – where he married Heard in 2015 and which he bought for $3.5million in 2004 – with Heard and a nurse while he tried to kick his addiction to the prescription drug known as ‘Roxxies’.

In his witness statement, Depp claimed that Heard ‘often intervened and withheld medicine from me’ while the pair were on the island, which he described as ‘one of the cruellest things that she has ever done’.

He told the court how Heard would deny him medicine, leaving him ‘sobbing like a child’ on the floor and having the ‘heebie-jeebies’ and start shaking and having stomach cramps.

‘He’s flipping, he’s screaming, he’s so mad he pushed me’ 

Texts exchanged between Heard and an onsite nurse standing by throughout the withdrawal showed her telling medics to come and help when Depp allegedly ‘pushed’ her.

Depp denied kicking Heard and pulling her hair, claiming that he was ‘in no physical condition’ to have assaulted her and calling the accusations her ‘insurance policy’.  

Depp told the court how Heard would deny him medicine, leaving him ‘sobbing like a child’ on the floor and having the ‘heebie-jeebies’ and start shaking and having stomach cramps.  

Ms Wass told the High Court today how Depp and Heard were on one side of his private island while a nurse, Debbie Lloyd, was staying on the other side.

Referring to a page of text messages in evidence sent by Heard to the nurse, the barrister said: ”Issue seems to have arisen again. All of a sudden he’s flipping. He’s screaming, he’s so mad he pushed me and I asked him to get out. Don’t want to keep you guys.’ The nurse asked: ‘Should we come over?’ and she said yes.

‘Are you aware of any reason that Ms Heard would ask the medics to come over if you were so mad that you pushed her. Can you think why she would write that if it wasn’t the truth?’

Depp said: ‘I can only say from my point of view I was in no physical condition to push anyone. I’m denying I pushed her. I’m going to suggest that the testimony is fabricated.’

‘And this is part of the hoax is it?’ the lawyer asked.

‘I believe it’s part of the dossier that was an insurance policy for her,’ Depp said. ‘I wouldn’t know if she followed the instructions of the nurse to the letter.’ 

Ms Wass suggested to Depp that Heard was ‘effectively acting as your nurse’. 

Depp replied: ‘She was in control of the meds, she was in control of when I was taking the meds, she would give me the time to take the meds.’

Ms Wass asked: ‘She wasn’t the one in detox, was she?’ Depp said that Heard was not.

She added: ‘I am going to suggest you lied about the extent of her drugs use and alcohol consumption in order to discredit her in this court hearing.’  Depp said: ‘No.’

The barrister continued: ‘She was doing what she was being told to do by the experts.’ Depp replied: ‘I don’t know that she explicitly followed the orders of the registered nurse to the letter.’ 

Ms Wass said: ‘The idea of a detoxification process is you come off drugs.’

She added: ‘She (Ms Heard) was withholding drugs that you were not supposed to have.’ Depp asked: ‘Why would she have drugs that I was not supposed to have?’

Ms Wass also read a text exchange between Depp and his former mother-in-law, Paige Heard, sent during the Bahamas detox trip.

The barrister said Heard wrote ‘please hang in there my son out-law’. The text continued: ‘I know that it doesn’t feel like things will ever get better, but I promise you they will.

‘You’ve gotten through the hardest part, it may be hard to see, but you will be so glad to have this gorilla off of your back. I’ve seen the hell this addiction brings and I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.

‘You are a big wonderful man to break the cycle. Please let me know if I can help in any way. All my love.’

Depp said the messages to his mother-in-law were him saying good things about a daughter to her mother. 

The barrister said Depp’s assertion that Heard had withheld his medication during the trip was ‘not substantiated by any evidence’.

He replied that he couldn’t say whether it was substantiated, adding: ‘I can say that there were incidents where, for example, the time allotted for me to take my medication by the nurse or by Ms Heard was 4pm on that date.’

The actor said he would sometimes have the ‘heebie-jeebies’ by about 3.15pm and that he would start shaking and having stomach cramps.

He said he told Heard he needed his medication, but that she said ‘no, four o’clock’.

Depp continued: ‘My body clock was needing medication to stop the onslaught… I was not in good shape.

‘For someone this low… it is the lowest point I believe I have ever been in my life… on the floor, sobbing like a child and had still not received the medicine.’

Depp: ‘Shall we each swallow an E at around 8pm and go to dinner (at a) wonderful Peruvian spot?’ 

Depp was asked if he was taking MDMA around September 2014. The actor said: ‘I don’t recall it but it’s possible.’

Ms Wass then read out a message sent by Depp on October 4, 2014, which said: ‘I’m going to quite gracefully glide into a massage for my broken back and neck.

‘I shall exit in one hour a monster. Shall we each swallow an E at around 8pm and go to dinner (at a) wonderful Peruvian spot?’

Ms Wass said: ‘This is an email to somebody who has not been identified.’

She asked about the ‘Peruvian spot’ and whether it was ‘a reference to cocaine’. Depp said: ‘It’s a mystery to me. It might have been a Peruvian restaurant, it might have been a reference to cocaine.’

Ms Wass suggested to Depp that ‘you started lapsing again, didn’t you, in September 2014?’. 

Depp replied: ‘I wasn’t taking the ‘Roxxies’ (Roxicodone) that I went to the island that I went to detox from… any other substances would come from (Depp’s private doctor, David) Kipper.’

The lawyer asked: ‘Dr Kipper wasn’t supplying you with ecstasy, was he?’ Depp said: ‘No.’

Ms Wass read from medical notes dated September 22, which recorded that Depp punched the wall during an argument with Heard and was found ‘sitting in the kitchen with scraped and bloodied knuckles’.

The barrister said: ‘It seems to be how you are expressing your anger yet again.’ 

Depp replied: ‘I would rather express my anger by hitting an inanimate object than… the person I love.’

Ms Wass said: ‘There are times when you don’t even remember the conduct that you were responsible for, you blacked out on many, many occasions.’ 

Depp said: ‘There were blackouts for sure, but in any blackout there are snippets of memory.’

Johnny Depp ‘romanticises the entire drug culture and has no responsibility for his behaviour’, says his doctor 

Ms Wass read out medical notes written by Depp’s private doctor, David Kipper.

The notes said that Depp ‘romanticises the entire drug culture and has no accountability for his behaviour’.

The doctor also wrote that Depp paid ‘lip service’ to people like the actor’s friend Sir Elton John ‘more for their celebrity than their struggle with sobriety’.

Dr Kipper added: ‘There is also an issue of patience. He is driven almost reflexively by his id. He has no patience for not getting his needs met. He has no understanding of delayed gratification and is quite childlike in his reaction when he doesn’t get immediate satisfaction.’ 

Depp responded: ‘We had all just met, Dr Kipper and myself and Ms Heard and Nurse Lloyd, so they were not versed in our lives, our life together, as yet.’

Amber Heard’s movie with James Franco ‘sparked a a binge that put Johnny Depp in the hospital’ 

Ms Wass continued that Dr Kipper ‘started treating Heard for anxiety and indeed referred Ms Heard to another medical person’, Dr Connell Cowan.

She said Dr Cowan wrote in medical notes: ‘JD is very threatened by career, particularly any kind of romantic scenes she has to do. Her movie with JF (James Franco) precipitated a binge that put JD in the hospital.

‘Everyone around J seems to be intimidated by his power and money. No one stands up to him.’

Ms Wass asked: ‘Can you think of any reason why Ms Heard would have said that to Dr Cowan unless it was true?’ 

Depp said: ‘I believe it had a benefit to her motivation.’

Ms Wass asked if it was part of ‘the hoax, the agenda, the insurance policy’.

The actor replied: ‘I think she was telling porky pies with her psychiatrist.’

Depp ‘flew into another rage when Heard told him she was meeting English novelist Clive Barker at his home while he recovered from illness’

The court heard how Depp claimed his jealousy was ‘provoked’ when asked about allegedly kicking Heard for visiting Hellraiser novelist Clive Barker at his home while he recovered from an illness.

The Hollywood star allegedly flew into ‘another’ rage when his ex-wife told him she was meeting the English playwright while he recovered from an illness on December 17, 2014.

He today denied that apologetic texts sent to Heard after the alleged incident in which he described himself as a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘f***ing savage’ related to domestic abuse.

Ms Wass asked: ‘In December 2014 Ms Heard had arranged to meet with the playwright and novelist Clive Barker.

‘She had arranged to meet him at his home because in fact he had been very seriously ill and you were very uncomfortable about her going to his time and your jealousy came to the fore as it did with James Franco. It made you angry and you lost your self control. Do you agree or not?’

Depp replied: ‘There were many instances. There was an episode involving her rendezvous with Mr Barker. There were many instances where jealousy did come from my side. 

‘There were many instances where it was provoked if you will.’

In a text sent to Heard after the alleged attack read to the court, he said: ‘Slim I’m truly sorry I could not be more sorry for upsetting you to the degree I have. 

‘I do of course take your generosity and devotion to heart and I reciprocate. Please know my apology is sincere and solid. I hope your meeting with Clive Barker is excellent. Love you very f**ing much, Steve.’

He later wrote: ‘I always regret it when I jump or when you jump therefore I put in heavy work with shrink. I’m sorry for being less your disappointment in me and my behaviour, I’m a f***ing savage.’

Ms Wass noted that Depp used the same language to describe himself in his texts as he had earlier used to refer to individuals who ‘kicked’ women.

The lawyer asked: ‘Yesterday I asked you how you would describe a man who kicks his wife in the back and you immediately came up with the word savage. 

‘It’s a word I use,’ came the reply.

‘And you were describing yourself as savage in that text because you had been violent towards a woman,’ the lawyer said.

‘No ma’am, I often describe myself in derogatory ways and would be the first to be unkind to myself,’ Depp said.

‘Not only did I not kick, or punch Ms Heard at any time. Calling myself savage is certainly not to the effect that you suggest. So I disagree with your dissection of this text.’

Depp described himself as ‘sick’ while infamous footage of him presenting an awards ceremony while under the influence of drugs was played to the court.

He denied being drunk in the viral clip of him onstage hosting the Hollywood Film Awards in 2014.

Asked about his slurred speech and shambolic appearance, Depp said he had been withdrawing from a ‘very unpleasant medication.’

He said: ‘I was not drinking.

‘I don’t feel ashamed of that moment because that’s a sickly man, a drug addict who is coming off a very unpleasant medication and I was not prepared to go out and give that awards show however because they had asked me and it was my duty to do so I carried it through. It was a horrific mistake.

‘I was under the influence of many many medications.’