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AsJohnny Depp’s libel case against the U.K. tabloidThe Sunnears its end, the actor has revealed several things about his past and his marriage toAmber Heard.
Depp, 57, is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN), the parent company ofThe Sun, for libel over a story that called the actor a “wife-beater” in reference to his former marriage to actress Heard, 34.
The case was able to proceed with a slew of bombshells coming to light.
- Depp’s drug use began in his early childhood.
During the first day of testimony, Depp revealed he’d began using drugs “at a young age, when it was not a particularly stable or secure or safe home life.”
The actor said his mother would ask him to “go and get her ‘nerve pills’ andI think I was around the age of 11that it dawned on me that ‘nerve pills’ were calming her nerves, so I brought her her nerve pills and I took one and that began [my drug use].”
Johnny Depp; Lily-Rose Depp.Francois G. Durand/Getty; Scott Garfitt/BAFTA/Shutterstock
- Depp gave his daughter Lily-Rose Depp weed when she was 13.
According toMetro, Depp said he “never encouraged my daughter to use marijuana.”
Depp said he had asked his daughter to come to him when she felt “ready,” saying it was due to not wanting the young actress and model’s “first experience in this world to be with people you don’t know, taking things you don’t know that I can’t trust, so it’s a safety issue.”
Depp recalled how Lily-Rose, now 21, later came to him wanting to try marijuana, and he consulted with her mom Vanessa Paradis, who he said also talked to their daughter about it. The exes, who were together from 1998 to 2012, also share 16-year-old son Jack.
PerMetro’s reporting, Depp said he “would rather” his kids “be honest and have me be honest with them so that she doesn’t go out there and do these things and hide them from me.”
- Depp accused Heard of punching him when he learned he’d lost $750 Million
Depp alleged Heard once attacked him in April 2016, the same night the actor discoveredhe owed the U.S. government millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.
“I was in the early stages of learning from my recently acquired new business manager that theformer business managers had taken quite a lot of my money. They stole my money,” Depp testified, according toThe Guardian.
“It was put to me this way, because I had no idea about money or amounts of money: SincePirates[of the Caribbean]2and3, I had – and this is ludicrous to have to state, it’s quite embarrassing – apparently I had made $650 million," he explained, “and when I sacked [the former business managers], for the right reasons, I had not only lost $650 million, but I was $100 million in the hole because they had not paid the government my taxes for 17 years.”
The discovery reportedly came the same night as Heard’s 30th birthday party, which Depp arrived to late. Heard previously claimed that Depp pulled her hair and threw objects at her that night, but he claims she was the one who became violent, lodging “haymaker” punches at him.
- Heard’s ex-assistant accused the actress of exploiting her sexual assault story
Kate James, who worked for the actress from 2012 to 2015, testified that she had described her rape at machete-point in Brazil around 25 years ago to her former employer. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, James said that in Heard’s witness statement, the actress used her sexual assault story as her own.
From left: Elon Musk, Amber Heard, Johnny Depp.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty; Neilson Barnard/Getty;
“She referred directly to a violent rape that occurred to me 26 years ago and she twisted it into her own story and she used it for her own use,” James testified. “This of course caused me extreme distress and outrage that she would dare to attempt to use the most harrowing experience of my life as her own narrative.”
- Elon Musk offered Heard ’24/7 Security’ when she claimed Depp abused her
Elon Musk offered Heard his support when she told him of the alleged abuse.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder was named in court when Depp’s lawyer Eleanor Laws QC read aloud text messages between Heard and Musk from May 22, 2016, in which theAquamanactress told him that she was going to get a restraining order against thePirates of the Caribbeanstar, according toBBC News.
Questioning Heard, Laws said thatMusk offered to “arrange 24/7 security for you,“adding that he said: “The offer would stand, even if you never wanted to see me again… anyway, sorry for being an idiot. The radio silence hurts a lot. It only matters because I really like you.”
Heard and Depp tied the knot in 2015. In May 2016, she sought adomestic violence restraining orderagainst him, accusing him ofabusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled theirdivorceout of court in August 2016. She donated her $7 million divorce settlement to charity. Both actors signed NDAs barring them from discussing their relationship publicly.
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source: people.com
