Johnny Depp Spars With Amber Heard’s Lawyer as He’s Grilled on VERY Awkward Photos and Texts

Depp was reminded how he referred to Amber Heard by all kinds of foul names in messages to others — together with the notorious chat with Paul Bettany on how he needed to drown, burn and then “f–k her burnt corpse”.

Depp obtained right into a bit of sunshine verbal sparring with Heard’s legal professional J. Benjamin Rottenborn — whose identify Depp appeared to relish the pronunciation of when cross-examination first started — as the lawyer repeatedly tried to catch him in contradictions by evaluating his testimony to the one the actor gave within the earlier UK defamation trial.

At one stage, whereas Depp was describing his shut relationship with Elton John, the lawyer lower him off, to Depp’s gentle irritation.

“Okay, so I’ll simply cease speaking then,” Depp mentioned.

“Thank you, I recognize it,” Rottenborn instructed him. “I need to be respectful of the court docket’s time and jury’s time.”

“Well I do not really feel like I’m losing anybody’s time, sir…” Depp replied, earlier than the Lawyer lower him off once more with the following line of questioning.

As the queries continued, Depp’s solutions took on a barely cheekier tone, as he evenly mocked a few of Rottenborn’s questions.

When requested if he saved cocaine in a specific present field, Depp replied that coke is historically saved in little baggies, as storing it in a field would probably depart a white path behind you.

When requested if a specific image was taken by Depp, the actor responded “the gorgeous composition of the {photograph} would counsel so.”

And when requested if he ever drank whiskey within the mornings, Depp replied: “Isn’t completely satisfied hour any time?” — which drew chuckles from the court docket.

On one remoted event, Rottenborn truly laughed together with him, after asking Depp if he had provided Marilyn Manson with medicine.

“I as soon as gave Marilyn Manson a tablet… to get him to cease speaking,” Depp recalled.

Depp as soon as once more had the slightest of smiles as he revisited his now-infamous textual content to Paul Bettany, during which he mentioned he would drown Heard, then burn her, then “f–k her burnt corpse to make certain she was lifeless.”

Other texts had been learn out, during which Depp appeared to discuss with Heard as an “fool cow”, a “nugatory hooker”, a “filthy whore”, and at one stage texting an unidentified individual that he was going to “smack the ugly c–t round earlier than I let her in.”

Rottenborn additionally introduced up one other textual content Depp despatched to Bettany, telling him he needed to “correctly cease the booze factor”, as he had drank all evening earlier than he picked up Heard to fly to LA.

“I’m gonna correctly cease the booze factor, darling… Drank all evening earlier than I picked Amber as much as fly to LA, this previous Sunday…Ugly, mate,” he wrote.

“No meals for days…powders…half a bottle of whiskey, a thousand purple bull and vodkas, capsules, 2 bottles of Champers on aircraft and what do you get..???”

“An offended, aggro Injun in a f–kin’ blackout, screaming obscenities and insulting any f–k who obtained close to…I’m accomplished.”

But he additionally tells Bettany: “I’m admittedly too f–ked within the head to spray my rage on the one I like.”

Depp and Rottenborn additionally went again and forth over whether or not or not certainly one of his arguments along with his spouse was sparked by him being upset that she was filming with James Franco, and that he believed she was dishonest with him.

Depp was additionally proven a not-very-flattering picture of himself “handed out” on a sofa, ice cream spilling throughout his lap; however in accordance with Depp, the picture was a set-up by Heard:

“Passed out is an fascinating approach of placing it… perhaps asleep?” Depp retorted when requested about it.

He claimed Heard had handed him the ice cream, figuring out he had simply taken opiates after a 17-hour day of filming, and was sure to go to sleep.

He identified that his hand was in his pocket within the picture, so he was not “collaborating within the pageant of ice-cream.”

“It was an exquisite image to take for her…. I do not know why she took it,” he mentioned.

“Sure, so it is Miss Heard’s fault that that image was taken, is that what you are saying?” Rottenborn challenged.

“She snapped it,” Depp retorted, trying confused on the query.

During Wednesday’s testimony, the court docket was performed audio, recorded by Depp, during which Heard admits to hitting him.

“You instructed me to do it. You instructed me ‘go do this’,” Heard may be heard saying.

“You punched me within the f–king factor,” Depp replied.

“You figured all of it out,” Heard says. “I did not punch you by the best way.”

“I’m sorry that I did not hit you throughout the face in a correct slap,” she added. “I used to be hitting you, I used to be not punching you. You’re not punched.”

“Don’t inform me what it feels prefer to be punched,” Depp mentioned.

Heard then tells Depp ” you’ve been in a number of fights, been round a very long time.”

She added: “You did not get punched, you bought hit.”

“I’m sorry. I hit you want this, however I didn’t punch you. I didn’t f–king deck you. I f–king was hitting you. I do not know what the movement of my precise hand was. But you are nice. I didn’t damage you,” she went on.

“What am I alleged to do? Do this? I’m not sitting right here bitching about it, am I? You are – that is the distinction between me and you. You’re a f–king child.”

On the audio, Depp tries to reply however Heard shouts over him “you might be such a child, develop the f–k up, Johnny.”

When Depp asks her if she started a “bodily battle”, she responds: “I did begin a bodily battle.”

“Yeah, you probably did, so I needed to get out of there,” Depp replies.

She tells him — in a tone described by Depp as sarcastic — : “You did the precise factor. The huge factor. You know what – you are admirable.”

The court docket was additionally proven a March 2015 picture of Depp with a bruise to his cheekbone, which he mentioned was courtesy of a “roundhouse punch” from Heard.

Depp is suing his ex-wife for defamation over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post during which she claimed she was a sufferer of home violence. Depp was not named within the piece, however his attorneys argue it’s strongly insinuated, and that his profession suffered as a consequence. She has countersued Depp for $100 million.

Depp has already misplaced an earlier lawsuit he took within the UK over the identical article that appeared in The Sun.

The trial is predicted to final six weeks. See extra protection of the continuing trial right here.