Johnny Depp testifies at trial against Amber Heard: “I’ve never beaten any woman”

Johnny Depp testified to the trial for defamation brought by him against Amber Heard. The star is suing her ex-wife, asking 50 million dollars of damages, for an editorial on Washington Post in which she accused her, without ever quoting him directly, of domestic violence and abuse. The trial began on April 11 at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia. And now Depp has given his version of events: “I have never beaten any woman in my lifeSaid the actor under oath. He added that the “heinous and disturbing” allegations of physical abuse made against him by his ex-wife “are not based on any kind of truth” and were a “complete shock”. The star explained that he sued his ex-wife for defend himself but also his two children got from Vanessa Paradis, Jack and Lily-Rosewho for months have seen him portrayed in the press as a beater of women: “I want to free them from this horrible lie about their father. It’s terrible that my kids at school were approached by people waving the infamous cover of People with Miss Heard with a bruise on her face. ‘

Although he denied the violence, the actor admitted before the jury that the relationship with Amber was tumultuous: “There have been fights and things like that, but I never got to the point of hitting Miss Heard in any way“. In court, Depp also recalled the first meeting with Amber on the set of di The Rum Diary in 2009: «From what I remember it was too good to be true. She was caring, loving, intelligent, kind, funny, understanding. We had many things in common ». For about a year and a half they lived a fairytale until “things have started to change, or have started to reveal themselves “.

While Johnny spoke, Amber, sitting in the classroom, kept her eyes fixed on him. The actress in recent days, announcing the trial that awaited her via Instagram, had written among other things: “I hope that when this case yes will conclude, I can go on and so will Johnny. I’ve always tried love for him. It provokes me a great pain having to share the details of the our life together in front of the whole world “. The details leaked so far from the retrial are nothing compared to those that emerged in the fall of 2021 when Depp and Heard – who were only married a year, from 2015 to 2016 – came face to face in court during the trial hearings. brought by the star against the Sun who had called it a “Beater of wives”. Then the gruesome backstories of. Were fed to the world nightmare wedding based on violence, blood, alcohol, drugs and decay. The trial sentence, which arrived in early November, sanctioned the defeat of the star. And the collapse of his career. A few days later Warner Bros removed him from the set of Fantastic Beasts 3 and he was also stripped of the role of Jack Sparrow from the franchise Pirates of the Caribbean.

The actor in front of the jury of the Fairfax court reiterated that the accusations made by the ex have ruined many of the relationships, working and otherwise, established by him over the decades in Hollywood. But that’s not why he dragged her to court: “The truth is the only thing I’m interested in. Lies get you nowhere, lies lead to other lies and so on. I’m obsessed with the truth “.