“It's unfortunate that it's not only exposing for myself, it's exposing for my family, it's exposing for Ms. Heard. It never had to go in this direction.”
Days after their divorce, Heard was granted a temporary restraining order against Depp when she claimed that Depp had physically attacked her. During his Tuesday testimony, Depp said that Heard's allegations, which he's long denied,"were not based in any species of truth."
Before discussing his relationship with Heard, Depp spoke about his childhood. Christi Dembrowski, Depp's sister and personal manager, previously testified that she witnessed Depp being physically abused and hurt by their mother, and claimed that Depp swore to never perpetrate that sort of violence. During his own testimony, Depp alleged he suffered"constant" physical abuse at the hands of his mother when he was a child.
During Dembrowski's testimony, she also claimed that she had not seen a reason to believe that Depp struggled with drugs or alcohol abuse. Depp testified that he first took his mother's"nerve pills" at age 11, the same age he was introduced to marijuana. "The characterization of my 'substance abuse' that's been delivered by Ms. Heard is grossly embellished and I'm sorry to say, but a lot of it is just plainly false," Depp added.
As a result of that alleged change in Heard, Depp's longtime pal, Isaac Baruch, previously testified that he received profane texts from Depp regarding his ex in 2016, including one in which the actor said he hoped Heard's"rotting corpse is decomposing in the f**king trunk of a Honda Civic." Another text read,"That c*** ruined such a f**king cool life we had for a while.
"You start to slowly realize that you are in a relationship with your mother," he said, claiming that Heard"commenced with demeaning name calling... and that would escalate into a full-scale argument."
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