Stunning textual content messages that Johnny Depp despatched about spouse Amber Heard have been revealed in courtroom as their defamation trial continued.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor was on the stand on Thursday on the Fairfax County District Court docket for the most recent day of the case, when his friendship with fellow star Paul Bettany was mentioned.
Heard’s lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, requested if Bettany was a ‘good buddy you’ve executed medication with’, with Depp noting that it was a ‘unusual query’ however confirmed that they're ‘good’ pals, and had executed medication collectively ‘at instances’.
The lawyer then learn messages that he had despatched Bettany all through the course of their friendship, concerning the Aquaman actress.
In a single message, on June 11, 2013, he penned: ‘Let’s burn Amber!!!’
‘You see that?,’ the lawyer mentioned, to which Depp replied: ‘I do see that.’
Rottenborn continued: ‘You didn’t cease. The following textual content down says, “Let’s drown her earlier than we burn her!!!” I learn that proper?’
The actor mentioned sure, earlier than the lawyer apologized to the courtroom for the language in different messages.
Within the following submit Depp despatched Bettany, he wrote: ‘I'll f**ok her burnt corpse afterward to ensure she is useless.’
Depp clarified that he learn the message appropriately, and that they have been despatched about Heard earlier than they have been married.
In a later collection of messages, despatched after a flight from Boston to LA in 2014 – the place Heard alleged that he was abusive and drunk – he vowed to ‘correctly cease the booze’.
‘I’m gonna correctly cease the booze factor darling. Drank all evening earlier than I picked Amber as much as fly to LA. Ugly mate. No meals for days. Powders, half a bottle whiskey, thousand crimson bulls, capsules, two bottles of champagne,’ the message to Bettany – which the lawyer transcribed – learn.
He described himself as an ‘indignant agro engine in a blackout’ who was ‘screaming obscene’ issues, including that he’s ‘admittedly too f**ked within the head to spray my rage on the one I really like for little motive as nicely, I’m too outdated to be that man however capsules are high quality.’
Rottenborn once more clarified whether or not he’d learn the message proper, with Depp stating that he had.
The courtroom additionally heard of posts despatched on January 17, 2013, the place he described Heard as an ‘fool cow’, with one message studying: ‘Will do I’ll smack the ugly c*** round earlier than I let her in, don’t fear’.
‘Did that nugatory h**ker arrive,’ one other learn – however it was not specified who these have been despatched to.
In 2015, Depp contacted Heard’s sister, Whitney, describing his ex as a ‘filthy w***e’ whereas they have been married.
Questioned on whether or not he ‘tries to conduct himself as a gentleman’, Depp insisted that he did.
‘That was basically when you've deep deep roots within the south and Kentucky, it’s not simply your mother and father, it’s your grandparents, raised to be southern gentleman, when chivalry was nonetheless alive,’ he added on the requirements of a Southern gentleman.
The previous couple met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2011, and tied the knot 4 years later – earlier than divorcing in 2016.
Depp is suing Heard for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Submit, titled: ‘I spoke up towards sexual violence — and confronted our tradition’s wrath. That has to alter’.
The article doesn't point out him by identify, however his attorneys alleged that it falsely implies he bodily and sexually abused her throughout their relationship.
Heard is countersuing for $100million (£76m) claiming Depp libeled her by calling her a liar.
The trial continues.
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