UPDATED: At U.K. libel trial, Johnny Depp blasts Amber Heard's 'sick' abuse claim
Heard and Depp met on the set of the 2011 film 'The Rum Diary', married in 2015 and divorced in 2017. LONDON -- Johnny Depp said Tuesday that his ex-wife Amber Heard had made "sick" claims of abuse and falsely branded him a monster, as the actor testified in a U.K. libel case that hinges on who was the aggressor in the celebrity couple's violent, toxic relationship
A three-week trial over his libel claims opened Tuesday. The trial is one of the first to be held in person since Britain began to lift its coronavirus lockdown. Depp and Heard arrived by separate entrances at the neo-Gothic court building. Both wore face coverings over their noses and mouths as they arrived. Proceedings have been spread over several courtrooms to allow for social distancing.
Depp claimed that on another occasion, Heard repeatedly punched him in the face on a private jet, forcing him to spend the flight locked in the plane's bathroom.Describing one incident in which Heard claims he hit her, Depp said the opposite was true. "I am now convinced that she came into my life to take from me anything worth taking, and then destroy what remained of it," Depp said.Under cross-examination by The Sun's lawyer, Sasha Wass, Depp acknowledged taking myriad drugs over the years, including marijuana, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, magic mushrooms and prescription painkillers.
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