Amber Heard has renewed her allegations of domestic abuse against Johnny Depp in a new court filing in response to his $50million defamation lawsuit.
Heard describes a number of incidents when Depp alleged beat and choked her while he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol during their four-year relationship in the complaint obtained by The New York Post on Thursday.
Depp sued Heard last month over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in which she described being a victim of domestic abuse but did not mention the actor, whom she divorced after 15 months of marriage in May 2016.
The defamation suit accused Heard of implying that Depp was abusive toward her and labeled her claims ‘an elaborate hoax’.
Amber Heard has renewed her allegations of domestic abuse against Johnny Depp in a new court filing in response to his $50million defamation lawsuit. The couple, who divorced in May 2016 after 15 months of marriage, are seen above in January 2016
Heard responded to Depp’s suit by laying out the actor’s alleged abuse in vivid detail.
She claims that her then-husband became ‘a totally different person, often delusional and violent’ when he was abusing drugs and alcohol.
‘We called that version of Johnny, “the Monster”,’ she wrote.
She said she first witnessed his alleged substance abuse about a year into their relationship, which began in 2012.
‘On some occasions, when Johnny simultaneously used both illegal narcotics and prescription medications I have had to get him medical attention,’ she wrote, according to The Post.
‘Whenever he was using, I worried for both of us.’
Addressing Depp’s repeated denials of her allegations, Heard wrote: ‘Johnny often would not remember his delusional and violent conduct after he came out of his drunk or medicated states.’
She added: ‘Because I loved Johnny, I had believed his multiple promises that he could and would get better. I was wrong.’
Heard claims in the filing that Depp became ‘a totally different person’ when he was abusing drugs and alcohol. The actress is pictured on Sunday in Los Angeles
Heard specifically describes one morning in May 2014 when she and a visibly intoxicated Depp clutching a bottle of champagne boarded a private jet from Boston to Los Angeles.
She said that once they were on the flight, Depp ordered the flight attendants to give him an oxygen tank and continued to drink heavily.
‘Johnny’s handlers told me that he was upset that I was filming a movie with a romantic scene with James Franco the day before,’ wrote Heard, who was filming The Adderall Diaries with Franco at the time.
‘Soon, Johnny began to throw objects at me. Instead of reacting to his behavior, I simply moved seats. That didn’t stop him. He provocatively pushed a chair at me as I walked by, yelled at me, and taunted me by yelling out the name “James Franco”.’
She continued: ‘At some point, I stood up, and Johnny kicked me in the back, causing me to fall over. Johnny threw his boot at me while I was on the ground.
‘Johnny continued to scream obscenities until he went into the plane bathroom and passed out locked in the bathroom for the remainder of the flight.’
Heard claimed that Depp later apologized to her over text message, writing: ‘Once again, I find myself in a place of shame and regret. Of course, I am sorry. I really don’t know why or what happened. But I will never do it again.
‘My illness somehow crept up and grabbed me … I must get better . . . Again, I am so sorry, so sorry. … I love you and I feel so bad for letting you down.’
Heard also claimed that Depp’s assistant Stephen Deuters messaged her and claimed that the actor didn’t remember what he’d done, saying he was ‘appalled’ when he learned about the incident.
Deuters allegedly said: ‘When I told him he kicked you, he cried. He’s a little lost boy. And needs all the help he can get.’
Heard and Depp (above in October 2015) began dating in early 2012 and were married in February 2015. The actress filed for divorce just over a year later in May 2016
The next fight described by Heard via The Post took place over three days in March 2015, just one month after Heard and Depp tied the knot.
Heard claims that Depp was supposed to be clean when he went on a three-day ecstasy bender in Australia.
He later said that he didn’t believe he broke his sobriety because his new wife hadn’t ‘explicitly forbidden’ him from taking ecstasy.
‘The argument heated up, and Johnny pushed me, slapped me, and shoved me to the ground before I retreated to a locked bedroom,’ Heard wrote.
The following morning Heard allegedly found that her new husband hadn’t slept at all because he’d taken ‘about eight MDMA pills’ and was drinking again.
‘We got into a fight that Johnny made physical, and I barricaded myself in one of the rooms. That didn’t stop Johnny from busting through the door of the room I was in.’
‘By nightfall, Johnny had hit me multiple times, shoved and pushed me to the ground, choked me, and spit in my face.
‘Johnny then handed me a liquor bottle that he was drinking from, and asked me: “What are you going to do?” I threw the bottle on the floor. Johnny responded by starting to throw cans and unopened glass bottles at me.’
After Heard filed for divorce images emerged at the time (above) showing her with a bruised eye and face
Heard continued: ‘That night, Johnny shoved me into a ping pong table that collapsed underneath me. Johnny threw bottles through the window panels of a glass door, breaking two panes, and leaving glass everywhere.
‘Johnny then grabbed me, gripping my body and nightgown. He tore the nightgown off, and at some point, I was naked and barefoot, covered in alcohol and glass.
‘Johnny grabbed me by my hair and choked me against the refrigerator in the kitchen. I tried to stand myself up but I was sliding around the glass-strewn floor and countertop. Johnny threw me away from him, and I tried to run away as Johnny continued to throw objects and alcohol at me.
‘In one of the most horrific and scariest moments of this three-day ordeal, Johnny grabbed me by the neck and collarbone and slammed me against the countertop. I struggled to stand up as he strangled me, but my arms and feet kept slipping and sliding on to the spilled alcohol and were dragged against the broken glass on the countertop and floor, which repeatedly slashed my feet and arms. Scared for my life, I told Johnny: “You are hurting me and cutting me.”
‘Johnny ignored me, continuing to hit me with the back of one closed hand, and slamming a hard plastic phone against a wall with his other until it was smashed into smithereens. While he was smashing the phone, Johnny severely injured his finger, cutting off the tip of it. Once I was able to get away, I barricaded myself in an upstairs bedroom.
The next morning, which marked the third day Depp had gone without sleep, Heard stated: ‘I came downstairs to find numerous messages Johnny had written to me around the house, on the walls and on my clothes, written in a combination of oil paint and the blood from his broken and severed finger. Johnny also urinated all over the house.’
Heard said Depp was hospitalized after the incident and she walked away with ‘a busted lip, a swollen nose, and cuts all over my body’. She said many of those scars still haven’t healed four years later.