Johnny Depprecounted howAmber Heardwanted to meet with him in San Francisco months after filing a domestic violence restraining order against him and filing for divorce.
Speaking about the July 2016 audio clip played in court in which Depp threatened to cut himself as Heard begged for him to stop, Depp said Heard wanted to meet with him, despite the restraining order she had against him. “We went to a hotel room so we could finish the discussion that she wanted to have with me” in San Francisco, Depp said. He was in the city touring with his band at the time.
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“I was quite confused as to why I had been summoned to her at that point since all the news was just about the fact that I had allegedly done all these horrible things to her,” continued Depp. “So I was talked into going there and met with her in hopes that she would retract her lies that the world was now fed. In no way was she ready to do that, and I couldn’t understand why I was there — everything had been taken from me, my children couldn’t escape the fact that all this had gone down.”
Depp said he felt Heard brought him to that meeting “under false pretenses” and, after the fallout of the allegations against him, he was “really just at the end, just at the end; I couldn’t take it anymore.”
“I don’t know what she was after, so I had a knife in my pocket and I just took the knife out and said, ‘Here — cut me, that’s what you want to do. Ultimately you’ve taken everything. You want my blood? Take it. Have my blood.’ And then she said, ‘No, no’ and then I said, ‘Look, if you’re not going to take it and you want it, I know you want it — that’s all I’ve got left — take it.’ If she wasn’t going to do it, I would’ve done it because that’s psychologically, emotionally where I was. I was at the end, I was broken.”
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Depp — who has said multiple times under oath that he has never struck Heard or any other woman — was also asked about a December 2015 incident where he allegedly head-butted Heard, who then sustained bruises on her face. He “vehemently” disagreed with the statement that he intentionally head-butted her, arguing that it was an accident while he attempted to restrain her.
“I was trying to restrain Ms. Heard, and once I had restrained her, I would say if she’s trying to still move around and kick at me or trying to get loose, any sort of movement when you’re like this, your heads are this close together, it’s not impossible for them to bump. But a ‘head-butt,’ that’s pretty extreme definition of that,” he said.
Additionally,text messages showedthe actor joking about killing Heardand having sex with her burnt corpse.
Amber Heard.STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP/Getty
One of Depp’s witnesses, their former marriage counselor Dr. Laurel Anderson, testified earlier this month that the pair “engaged in what I saw as mutual abuse” with each other. Anderson claimed Heard would sometimes initiate fights in order to “keep him with her” because “abandonment was her worst nightmare.” The therapist said she also observed “multiple” small bruises on Heard’s face at an in-person meeting.
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
Heard has not yet taken the stand in this trial.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at1-800-799-7233, or go tothehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
source: people.com
