“My goal is the truth,” Johnny Depp told the jury in a Fairfax, Virginia court during his near three hour testimony for his defamation trial against ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million over her 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post where Heard had detailed her experience with domestic abuse, although Depp was not mentioned by name in the article.
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star spoke of domestic abuse allegations toward him from Heard, along with how he had dealt with issues of substance abuse and stories of his own relationship with domestic violence from his mother when he ws a child.
Depp said he first tried drugs at age 11 when he took his mother’s prescription medication “to escape the chaotic nature of what we were living through”, and gestured how he reacted as if he expected to get hit every time his mother walked by him. Although admitting during the testimony that he and Amber Heard had arguments during their relationship, Depp insisted, “Never did I myself reach the point of striking Ms. Heard in any way nor have I ever struck any woman in my life.”
Johnny Depp is claiming that Heard’s Washington Post op-ed has led to financial losses and also causing the actor to be dropped from any future “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
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