Even the dogs were not spared from Johnny Depp‘s chaotic lifestyle.
One day his pampered puppy, Boo, snapped up ‘quite a lot’ of the Hollywood hellraiser’s cannabis, the court heard.
And a Yorkshire terrier called Pistol was allegedly held out of the window of a moving car by ‘howling’ Depp after a cocaine and whisky binge.
He also kept up a running joke about putting the ‘teacup dog’ — bred to be as small as possible — in the microwave.
Sasha Wass QC said Boo had once ‘eaten some cannabis — quite a lot’. She suggested it was about an ounce, but Depp said: ‘I wouldn’t say it was an ounce.’
A Yorkshire terrier called Pistol was allegedly held out of the window of a moving car by ‘howling’ Depp
A pampered puppy, Boo, snapped up ‘quite a lot’ of the Hollywood hellraiser’s cannabis, the court heard
He added: ‘The puppy got a hold of a little ball of hashish and just scooped it up before I could get to it.’
Miss Wass said: ‘Miss Heard was worried Boo had a brain injury.’ Depp replied: ‘It was something she liked to say.’
The court heard that when he was filming a documentary about Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, Depp went on such a cocaine and whisky bender that he was ‘utterly irrational’ when a car came to take him to the set, and he insisted Miss Heard and Pistol went too.
Miss Wass said: ‘You were smoking, angry and aggressive, and at one stage you took hold of Miss Heard’s dog — it’s a tiny little thing isn’t it…’
‘Weighs about 3lb,’ said Depp.
Miss Wass continued: ‘And you held her out of the window and you started making howling noises.’
Depp called this ‘a very enduring image but absolutely, utterly false’.
‘You thought this was a huge joke,’ said the barrister.
‘No ma’am, I don’t think hanging a small defenceless dog that weighs 3lb out of a window at speed is my idea of fun.’
But he agreed he did find it funny to repeatedly suggest putting the dog in a microwave because the dogs were so ‘ludicrously tiny’.
He also agreed he had a ‘childish sense of humour’ in relation to another dog joke, which he wrote in a text to his assistant Stephen Deuters.
He suggested in the message that Mr Deuters should ‘squat in front of the door to the master bedroom and leave a master coil of doopie so Amber steps in it, thinking one of the dogs has a major problem — it will be funny’.
On the second day of Mr Depp’s blockbuster libel trial in London , he was asked about ‘the Boston plane incident’ in May 2014, where he is alleged to have attacked Ms Heard on a flight from Boston to LA
An undated picture shown in court of a bruise on Amber Heard’s arm (left) which she says was inflicted by her former husband Johnny Depp. It is not from the Boston plane incident. Pictured right is Ms Heard leaving court today
It is the latest revelation to come from day two of the actor’s explosive libel trial at the High Court in London.
The court heard a recording of Depp appearing to howl ‘like an animal’ after he attacked Amber Heard in a cocaine and alcohol fuelled tirade on a plane over accusations that she cheated on him with ‘rapist’ James Franco.
On the second day of Mr Depp’s blockbuster libel trial in London, he was asked about ‘the Boston plane incident’ in May 2014, where he is alleged to have attacked Ms Heard on a flight from Boston to LA after consuming cocaine, whisky, pills and champagne before passing out in the plane’s toilet.
He denied screaming about how Heard ‘liked getting f****d on set’ and making ‘vulgar’ comments while grilling her about sleeping with Adderall Diaries co-star Franco in 2014.
The Sun’s lawyer, Sasha Wass QC, said Mr Depp made ‘vulgar references to [Ms Heard’s] genitalia’ and called her a ‘go-getter sl**’ in front of crew members on a flight from Boston to LA.
He denied having launched the attack, commenting: ‘That’s quite a stretch of her imagination.’
A recording of Mr Depp apparently howling during the flight was also played during the afternoon session.
Ms Wass QC put it to Mr Depp that it was him in the recording, but the actor replied: ‘I had drunk alcohol prior on the flight but my behaviour was not as alleged … I was drawing art sketches in my notebook.’
Afterwards, Ms Wass also read out a text sent by Mr Depp to his friend Paul Bettany on May 30 2014, which read: ‘I’m going to properly stop the booze thing, darling.
‘Drank all night before I picked Amber up to fly to LA this past Sunday. Ugly mate. No food for days. Powders. Half a bottle of whisky. A thousand red bull and vodkas, pills, 2 bottles of champers on plane and what do you get?’
Mr Depp claimed that he had been concerned about Franco because Ms Heard had described him as ‘creepy and rapey’ when they starred alongside one another in stoner comedy, Pineapple Express.