Johnny Depp Calls Amber Heard "Narcissistic Sociopath" In Court
The actor assures that he wants to clean up her reputation in this defamation case and that "she is not and has never been a wife abuser"
Johnny Depp "is not and has never been a wife abuser," said his defense on Tuesday at a court hearing held in London, where the American actor has filed a million-dollar defamation lawsuit against the British tabloid 'The Sun'. The interpreter, 57, and his ex-wife, also actress Amber Heard, 34, appeared at the hearing held in the Superior Court for the start of a judicial process that will foreseeably last three weeks, in which Depp assures that he seeks "clean up your reputation".
The first day of trial has already left us a series of striking headlines, such as when Depp says that he decided to divorce Heard after she "defecated in our bed" - although she said it was just an innocent joke -, or admitted that at 14 years old, "he had already tried all the drugs known to mankind" or that he spends "much more than 24,000 pounds a month on wine", although he confessed that he did not drink all of it himself. He also spoke of the times he used drugs with Marilyn Manson, his admiration for Rolling Stone Keith Richards, the time he trashed a hotel room with Kate Moss or his traumatic break up with Vanessa Paradis, whom he called "French albatross. ".
Depp accused Heard of being a "calculating and sociopathic narcissist, who married him to advance her career" and described various alleged harassments and assaults on the part of the actress, while stating that "it is a fundamental part of me. moral code that would never hit a woman, at any time, under any circumstances. " Instead, lawyers for her ex-wife described him as a violent person who assaulted her when he was drunk or high.
In an opening note read by Depp's attorney, David Sherborne, he remarked that the libel case is not "a matter of money" for his client, but of "justice." The lawyer argued that, instead, Heard, the actor's ex-wife, "made up stories of serious violence", when in fact she was the "aggressor" in the relationship. The article published by the newspaper alluded to Heard's accusations about Depp, stressing that the actor was violent with her during her marriage, something that he categorically denies.
"He is not and has never been a wife abuser. In fact, he maintains that it was Heard who started the physical fights, who punched or hit him, and there was little he could really do to stop this; she was the aggressor. , not him, "he said.
