Johnny Depp’s security chief alleged Amber Heard physically abused him during the couple’s tempestuous marriage, giving testimony to support Depp’s libel suit against a UK tabloid that accused him of assaulting his former spouse.
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that called him a “wife-beater”. He strongly denies abusing Heard.
Bett, a former Los Angeles sheriff's deputy who has worked for Depp for a decade, said he regularly had to remove the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star from bad situations when Heard was in an “abusive mood”. The Sun’s defence relies on 14 allegations made by Heard of violence by Depp between 2013 and 2016, in settings including his private island in the Bahamas, a rented house in Australia and a private jet.
Heard is due to give her side of the story in evidence later in the trial, which is scheduled to last three weeks. David Sherborne said on Thursday he no longer needed to call them, “much as it would have been a pleasure to have them here", because The Sun does not contest Depp’s claim that he never hit them.
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