Archive the image from 2015, when the fight between Depp and Heart ended with an injury to the actor’s right hand. Photo: Reuters.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard star from April 11 in the trial of the decade. Both couples from 2012 to 2016 (in the middle they got married), they quarreled badly, he soon denounced it for physical and verbal abuse and in 2018 he proved it again. He denied it, was charged with libel of $ 50 million, and in response, he responded with $ 100.
On the last day of the trial, Johnny Depp tried to convince the jury in his libel case that his ex -wife Amber Heard was fHe is to blame for the amputation of his finger in 2015, it is said that he would never do that because he loves to play the guitar.
Depp accused Heard of damaging his reputation and ruining his career by implying that he was a victim of domestic violence in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.
Depp showed the injured finger during the trial against his ex Amber Heard. Photo: EFE.
Heard responded, claiming that Depp physically assaulted her on multiple occasions before and during their wedding.
One of the main points of controversy in the trial was a battle from March 2015 which the couple said they had a few weeks after they got married, when Heard visited Depp on the set of the fifth installment of the film franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean” in Australia.
Actress Amber Heard said Depp just cut off his finger. The actor denied this. Photo: AFP
In testimony last week, Depp said Heard cut off the top of his right middle finger. when it threw him a bottle of vodka of glass. It was allegedly heard in court papers that Depp himself cut off his finger“Dropped the hard plastic phone against the wall”.
One of the ways Heard’s legal team tried to prove their side of the story in the trial was by showing a text message that Depp sent to his personal physician David Kipper after the incident, which read: “ I cut off my left finger to remind myself not to lose my right again.
Johnny Depp and doctor David Kipper
Depp was asked about his legal team’s text message in the redirection portion of his testimony on Monday. Depp said the text message was not an admission to cutting off his finger, but a joke.
“When you say‘ I cut my finger, ’it doesn’t mean you did it yourself,” Depp said. He even said that cutting his finger is unthinkable as a guitarist. The guitar, he said, is “the only really good thing in my life, apart from my kids.”
“There’s no way I’m going to cut my finger to ruin this great opportunity to start playing guitar,” he added. Apparently what Depp is referring to is his band, The Hollywood Vampires, which was formed in 2012 and began performing live in September 2015.
The image of the finger cut affected during the test. Photo: AP
“When I lose the tip of this finger, all I can think about is ‘Thank God it’s not a left hand.’
Much of Depp’s early testimony also focused on how he moved to Los Angeles as a young man to pursue music, but eventually began acting when his band disbanded. In his youth, he declared, music and guitar his way to escape from childhood full of abuse from his mother.
Depp said his ex -wife threw him a bottle of vodka and cut off his finger. He gave another version. Photo: Reuters.
“It was the only peace I found in my life at 12 years old, where I knew I could escape the music and learn it,” he said.
Depp first stood on Tuesday, April 19, and then continued to testify daily until the end of Thursday, April 21. The proceedings were delayed on Friday, April 22, then over the weekend, and resumed in April. 25.
Source: Clarin
