Yesterday, Johnny Depp completed his testimony in the third week of the defamation trial against Amber Heard that takes place in the Fairfax court in Virginia. the actor of Pirates of the Caribbean testified about graphic and violent text messages about Heard that he sent to his friend, actor Paul Bettany, in 2013.
After four days of testifying on the stand, the actor addressed text messages he had sent to some people, including Bettany, that Heard’s attorneys read aloud last Thursday in court after alleging that Depp He was repeatedly physically and sexually violent with the actress, particularly when she was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Let’s burn Amber!!!
Let’s drown her before we burn her!!!
Then I’ll have sex with her burned corpse to make sure she’s dead.
– Messages that Johnny Depp sent to Paul Bettany
Johnny was on the stand once again, and under direct questioning from his own attorney, he was asked to explain the messages. In this regard, the actor stated that he felt “ashamed” of his language, but that the messages were an attempt at “irreverent and abstract humor.”
Also, he said that some of them were quotes from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which includes a sketch about witches being burned and drowned. Depp added that the relationship between Bettany and Heard was “abhorrent” as she viewed him as a “threat”.
This is a movie that we had all seen when we were 10 years old. It’s just irreverent, abstract humor. That is what we were referring to in those messages. […] Mrs. Heard despised Mr. Bettany mainly because we had become close friends and to her, he was a threat that would drive me away from her.
Depp ended four days of testimony by proclaiming that he was a victim of domestic abuse. Amber Herad is expected to take the stand to testify in the coming weeks.