Johnny Depp: accusations of domestic violence have made him a "Quasimodo"
Johnny Depp said Friday before the British justice that the accusations portraying him as an abusive husband towards his ex-wife Amber Heard had transformed him from "Cinderella to Quasimodo".
The hero of the Pirate of the Caribbean saga is suing for defamation before the High Court in London the tabloid The Sun and its publishing company NGN, which he accuses of having, in an article published in April 2018, taken up as a proven fact of the allegations that he hit his ex-wife, which he denies.
The 57-year-old actor claims that Amber Heard, 34, meticulously built a case against him during their two-year marriage, which ended in a shattering divorce in 2017, in order to advance his career at his expense .
"From Cinderella", pretty fairytale princess, "I became Quasimodo in 0.6 seconds without having anything to say", he testified on Friday, on the fourth day of the trial, referring to this hunchbacked character of the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo.
On Thursday, Johnny Depp assured the NGN lawyer who questioned him about his excesses that he had been weakened by his drug addiction to the point of being unable to hit his ex-wife as she claims.
Consistently, he refuted accusations of violence relayed by lawyer Sash Wass, who attempted to portray him as a self-centered person out of touch with reality. He said it was Amber Heard, a drug and alcohol user himself according to him, who was chronically searching for the fight.
For example, an argument erupted on the night of his partner's 30th birthday party in April 2016 in Los Angeles, which he arrived late after receiving bad news about his financial situation.
Johnny Depp said he went to bed to "avoid another confrontation with Miss Heard over something that didn't go exactly the way she wanted".
But according to the lawyer, the argument escalated and he threw a bottle of champagne at Amber Heard, missing it. False, according to the star, who understood that their relationship was over when one day feces were found in their bed - which he said came from his ex-wife or a friend of his.
He denied another incident in which he allegedly threw a phone in Amber Heard's face in May 2016. “She was screaming 'stop hitting me, Johnny!' and when the security guards came she was still screaming and I was six yards away next to the fridge. "
Taking over to question the star, his lawyer David Sherborne asked him if he had ever hit a woman. “Never,” replied Johnny Depp.
