Willy Wonka has really been carried away.
On Monday, in a British court, a humiliating photo of Johnny Depp was shown dozing while ice cream melts all over his crotch, as the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” star continued to dismiss allegations that he beat the ex-wife. Amber Heard.
I listened “showed me [the photo] the next day and he said, ‘Look what you’ve become … it’s pathetic,’ ”the actor said of the 2014 photo during his fifth and final day of testimony in London’s High Court.
The sensational case revolves around Depp’s libel suit against British tabloid The Sun for calling him a “handcuff puncher” in a 2018 article, with his volatile and perverse relationship as the protagonist.
During Depp’s roughly 23 total hours on the stand, the 57-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor repeatedly denied assaulting the 34-year-old actress while her apparently doomed marriage from the start lasted for 15 months.
Heard, who is expected to take the position later in the week, has accused Depp of repeatedly beating her in storms fueled by alcohol and drugs, accumulating degrading insults in the process.
But Depp and his former personal assistant Stephen Deuters, who referred to Heard as a “sociopathic show pony” and “Machiavellian overloard” in the texts shown in court, testified Monday that the only real aggressor in the marriage was the ” Aquaman. ” Actress.
On Monday, Depp’s camp produced the embarrassing photo, which Heard took before accepting that it was time to go to his private island in the Bahamas to detoxify from prescription drugs.
“She asked me to hold her tub of ice cream. I have my right hand in my pocket and I hold the ice cream in the other, ” Depp recalled.
“Obviously I was nodding and very tired, I fell asleep, and ice cream spilled all over my leg.”
The “Edward Scissorhands” actor also claimed that his then-wife once hit him with a “tedder” hit in April 2016, the month before she filed for divorce, and just a few hours after he discovered he had just lose a staggering $ 750 million.
“From ‘Pirates [of the Caribbean]’2 and 3, I did it, and it’s ridiculous to have to say it, it’s quite embarrassing, apparently I had earned $ 650 million, “said the star.
Depp said he later learned hours before his wife’s 30th birthday party on April 21, 2016, that his former business manager had “stolen my money.”
“Not only had I lost $ 650 million, but I also had $ 100 million in the hole because my taxes had not been paid to the government for 17 years,” Depp told the court.
He admitted that he may have smoked cannabis between leaving the “very nasty and ugly” business meeting and attending his wife’s party in the Los Angeles penthouse that night.
“He is a calming agent for me,” Depp told the drug court.
Depp’s attorney, David Sherborne, noted that a nurse at the party recalled that Heard “seemed irritable and upset” and “angry at her husband because he was late.”
That same night, someone pooped on the couple’s bed, and Depp has said he thinks it could have been Amber as an alleged “joke.”
The actor has been accused of throwing a magnificent bottle of champagne at his wife during the course of the night, pushing her to the floor, throwing her hair and leaving a note that said: “Happy Birthday”.
But on Monday, he pointed to a recording she made in secret three months after she captured him saying, “You fucking king made me hay, man” that night.
“You came to bed so that f – king started hitting me,” Depp said on the tape.
When asked to explain what a tedder was, Depp said, “It’s just a kind of wild swing … a kind of round punch, so to speak.”
Depp insisted that he could not have hit Heard that night as she says, because he still had a cast on a severed finger due to persistent complications.
The actor had testified last week that the tip of his right middle finger was cut off by a bottle of vodka that Heard threw at him during a fight in Australia in March 2015, a month after he married.
She has said that he cut off the tip of the digit himself by hitting a phone during a jealous rage fueled by alcohol and drugs, and then used his bloody finger to scribble taunts directed at her for her alleged affairs.
Depp said Monday that she suffered a “painful” MRSA infection from the wound, which she would not have been able to attack Heard in April 2016 the way she said it was.
“I flew from Australia to Los Angeles to have surgery on my finger, and at that time, they put a pin in the broken bone, the broken bone, but it was in vain,” he told the court.
“He ended up having MRSA, it’s a pretty painful disease,” said Depp.
The actor described that his cast had a “little dinosaur” to be “more fun.”
Sherborne asked, “With that cast on, could you have grabbed her hair with one hand and hit her repeatedly with the other?”
Depp replied, “No sir.”
When he left the witness box Monday, Depp smiled and said to a court worker, “I’m going to miss you.”
Meanwhile, a witness who followed claimed that he once saw Heard with bruises on his neck, but it was after tech tycoon Elon Musk apparently spent the night in the actress’s flat, and not when Depp was there.
Heard has said that Depp “put his arm up like a baseball pitcher” and threw his iPhone at May 21, 2016, hitting her in the right eye.
But Trinity Esparza, a janitor in the posh Los Angeles building where the former couple lived, stated that she never saw Heard with any injuries in the days after the alleged assault.
Two days later, “I looked at her face when we greeted her and saw no visible injuries to Ms. Heard’s face,” said Esparza.
She said it was not until May 27, 2016 that she “first noticed” that the actress had a red mark under her right eye.
Esparza also said in a witness statement that he saw “a number of marks on Ms. Heard’s body,” including bruises on her neck and under her left eye, as well as a bandage on her arm, in June or July 2016. Shortly thereafter, the worker saw Musk leaving the building looking “as if he had just woken up with messy hair.”
The Tesla founder, who was accused by the Depp camp of having an affair with Heard while she was still with the actor, did not respond to requests for comment from The Post on Monday. She has previously denied the extramarital claim.
The Sun’s attorney Sasha Wass challenged Esparza at one point: “You wanted to suggest that Mr. Musk had hurt her, didn’t you?”
Esparza replied: “I didn’t suggest that, I don’t know.”
Deuters, meanwhile, endorsed his boss that Heard “was the abuser in the relationship.”
When he stood up, he initially denied having heard Depp use terms like “bitch,” “bitch,” or “ct,” before he was faced with a text message from the actor doing exactly that.
“She is ac-t !!!” Depp texted her assistant, complaining about Heard’s accusations that she was “wasted something else every night,” the court heard.
Deuters insisted that he “had no recollection” of Depp’s crude text, adding that he “certainly would not” use that language himself, only to display an even more forceful message he wrote about Heard.
“Sociopathic pony show. Machiavellian lord. Talentless, “Deuters wrote in a message about Heard in 2016 after she and Depp separated, they told the court.
Deuters told the court of his poorly expressed messages, “I certainly am sorry.”
Depp’s texts contained “extravagances and exaggerations,” the former employee said, and the court heard one in which Depp said he had “prostitutes and animals” in his hotel room.
In addition to Heard, the other former Depp actress Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis are expected to testify during the three-week trial.
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