Depp is suing Heard for claiming that he assaulted her in an op-ed she penned in 2018. Despite the fact that she did not identify him, his attorneys believe that her claims have made it impossible for him to get film jobs, thereby transforming him from “Cinderella to Quasimodo” in Hollywood, as the Pirates of the Caribbean star put it.
The actor has testified about growing up with a violent mother, claiming that his relationship with Heard mirrored that, characterizing her as “bullying” him.
Heard’s attorneys confronted him on Thursday regarding obscene text messages he sent about her, as well as his drug and alcohol addiction.
His claim of his finger being severed in Australia was also contested, and photographs of words scribbled over mirrors in blood and paint, as well as multiple surreptitiously recorded disagreements and fights, were submitted to the court.