Johnny Depp takes the stand for the first time in his high-profile defamation trial
Depp continued: “A lot of it is just plainly false. I think that it was an easy target for her to hit because once you’ve trusted somebody for a certain amount of years and told them all the secrets of your life, that information can of course be used against you.”
During opening statements. Heard’s attorney claimed that Depp, on one occasion, took eight to 10 tablets of ecstasy and proceeded to assault the Aquaman actress for the next three days. Recounting his history with drugs and alcohol, Depp said he became addicted to oxycodone after sustaining an injury on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Part of the five years he took the drug, which he said he was initially prescribed to help with a back injury, overlapped with his marriage to Heard.
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