Johnny Depp tells court he was ‘more inspired’ to use drugs and alcohol due to Amber Heard’s behaviour

Johnny Depp informed the court docket he ‘numbed’ himself with drink and medicines as his marriage broke down (Image: EPA)

Johnny Depp has informed the court docket that he was ‘extra impressed’ to drink alcohol and take medicine as a result of  the fixed clashes with Amber Heard. 

The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 58, is suing ex-wife Amber Heard after she wrote an op-ed within the Washington Put up, discussing her experiences with home abuse, and is looking for $50million (£39million) in damages. 

Depp was not named within the article, which was printed in 2018, however his attorneys argued that it falsely implies once they had been married. Heard is countersuing. 

, the place he informed the court docket that he turned to drink and medicines extra incessantly as his marriage to Heard broke down. 

‘It breaks you down, the fixed haranguing breaks you down,’ he informed the court docket.

‘Sure, I used to be extra impressed by Ms Heard to succeed in out for a numbing agent due to the fixed clashes.

‘There wasn’t a day that she would get up and also you’d anticipate one thing would hit the fan, and just about like clockwork it did.

‘I needed to have one thing to distance me and distance my coronary heart from these verbal assaults, I needed to have one thing to have the ability to keep me.’

Depp added that his marriage to Heard, 35, had begun to really feel like he was ‘in a relationship’’ along with his mom as a result of her ‘want for battle’. 

He had beforehand opened up in regards to the abuse he skilled by the hands of his mom, Betty Sue Palmer, all through his childhood.

Amber Heard is countersuing Johnny Depp (Image: AP)

Depp defined: ‘Issues began arising and I used to be all of a sudden simply incorrect about the whole lot if I made a press release about one thing that I had been accustomed to … I used to be all of a sudden incorrect.

‘Then, past that, when you tried to clarify your self and proper the issue, the misunderstanding, it might then start to intensify as Ms Heard was unable to be incorrect. It simply didn’t occur, she couldn’t be incorrect.’

He continued: ‘At a sure level what enters your thoughts [is] you begin to realise you might be in a relationship along with your mom, so to talk.

Johnny Depp described the breakdown of his marriage with Amber Heard in court docket (Image: John Phillips/UK Press through Getty Pictures)

‘I do know that sounds perverse and obtuse, however the truth is that some folks seek for weaknesses in folks, that's to say sensitivities.’

Depp had filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard following allegations of abuse throughout their marriage – one thing he has denied.

The case started on April 12 and has heard testimonies from a number of folks up to now, together with Depp’s nurse, Dr David Kipper – who handled him for habit – and the previous couple’s therapist, Laurel Anderson.

The trial continues.