Johnny Depptestified about his andAmber Heard’s wedding day, including why his daughter was not in attendance.
Depp and Heard married back in February 2015 in an intimatecelebration on his private islandin the Bahamas. While on the stand Wednesday in Fairfax, Virginia, Depp recalled that the older of his two kids with exVanessa Paradis, the now-22-year-old actressLily-Rose Depp, skipped the nuptials, which had about 20 to 25 people in attendance, according to Depp.
“My daughter Lily-Rose did not come to the wedding. She and Ms. Heard were not on particularly great terms, for several reasons,” he said.
He also told the courtroom that Heard and her “gang” of friends partook in drugs at their wedding reception from a “communal bag of MDMA,” and that there was a schedule for the day’s festivities that read: “Dinner, dancing and drugs.” Depp, meanwhile, smoked his “drug of choice” marijuana, he recalled.
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Depp — who is also dad to 20-year-old son Jack and was previously married to Lori Anne Allison from 1983 to 1985 — said he and Heard did not have a prenuptial agreement, and that a later discussion of a post-nup sparked contention between them.
At the beginning of his witness testimony on Tuesday, Depp, 58, said that he is suing Heard, 35, for defamation because his “goal is the truth” and that he hopes to “clear the record” of the allegations made against him. He added of Heard’s abuse allegations, “Since I knew there was no truth to it whatsoever, I felt it my responsibility to stand up not only for myself in that instance but stand up for my children, who at the time were 14 and 16.”
Lily-Rose Depp, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.Julien M. Hekimian/Getty; John Phillips/Getty; Neilson Barnard/Getty
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The star said Wednesday that the “complicated” reason hestayed in his marriage with Hearddespite their disputes was “because my father stayed [in his abusive marriage]. … And I didn’t want to fail. I wanted to try to make it work. I thought maybe I could help her. I thought maybe I could bring her around. Because the Amber Heard that I knew for the first year, year and a half was not this, suddenly this opponent. It wasn’t my girl, she had become my opponent.”
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About the headline, “tragically, it’s true,” Rottenborn told the courtroom. “Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp. … You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered. You’ll hear that straight from her. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. It happened.”
Shortly after, Rottenborn listed a time when Depp allegedly had a three-day, alcohol-fueled blackoutwhile in Australia in 2015toward the end of their marriage, when Depp “abused and sexually assaulted Amber, all because she had the courage to confront him about his drinking.”
Heard and Depp, who met while making the 2011 movieThe Rum Diaryand wed in 2015, broke up in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled theirdivorceout of court in August 2016.
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
source: people.com
