Johnny Depp flatly denied ever hitting a woman in court testimony Tuesday — telling the jury he sued ex-wife Amber Heard to “clear my name” after she accused him of domestic abuse.
Dressed in an all-black three piece suit, his hair slicked back into a tight ponytail, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star took the standagainst Heard after a week of testimony from his family, friends, and medical professionals.
Depp lamented having to testify in the suit, telling the jury: “It never had to go in this direction.” “There was quite a lot of name calling,” and as a child he lived in fear of Betty Sue who hit him with a belt and derided him for having to wear an eye patch, he said. He found the “verbal” and “psychological” abuse to be almost worse than the routine beatings.
“I’m crying because I see a broken man,” Jacinda Gillepsie, who flew in from Australia, told The Post. “She was attentive, she was loving, she was smart, she was kind, she was funny, she was understanding … we had many things in common, certain blues music, music, literature, for that year, year and a half, it was amazing,” he said. “She seemed to be the perfect partner in a sense, in my head.”
The “Aquaman” star, who filed for divorce in May 2016 after less than two years of marriage, has repeatedly claimed Depp physically abused her, describing him as a drug-addicted madman who threatened her life and made their relationship hell. “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, so they were in high school,” he said of his decision to publicly rebuke Heard’s allegations.“I thought it was diabolical that my children would have to go to school and have their friends or people in the school approach them with the infamous People magazine cover with Ms.
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