Johnny Depp Cross-Examination Questions Were Related to Leaked Text and Audio Messages in Amber Heard Defamation Case

Much of the afternoon of the cross-examination of Hollywood star Johnny Depp was focussed to the reading of graphic text messages, and the airing of audio and video of angry outbursts and confrontations with former wife Amber Heard. As one audio clip ran near the end of the day's proceedings, Depp, on the witness stand, wiped his eyes with his hand before grabbing a tissue, reports 'Deadline'. Johnny Depp Reveals Disney Wanted to Cut Ties on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ ‘To Be Safe’.

The audio was from July, 2016, after the couple filed for divorce and Heard sought a restraining order against him. Depp looked down at a computer screen as the audio was played. "Where do you want the scar?" Depp says. Heard pleads with him, "Don't cut your skin. Please do not cut your skin. Why would I do that. Please do not do that. Please don't cut yourself." Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial: Pirates of the Caribbean Star Vows He Never ‘Struck Any Woman’ in His Life.

Heard's attorneys unleashed a barrage of messages throughout the day to try to show that Depp used violent language in texts with his wife. In one, read by Heard's attorney Ben Rottenborn, Depp wrote: "The only reason we go for the throat is love." Heard wrote back, "My throat is yours. You're going to be the death of me, but I don't care." Depp wrote back, "I have other uses for your throat which do not include injury." In the witness stand, Depp asked, "Ia'm sorry, could you read that again."

Another series of texts were shown from May 22, 2016, the day after Depp and Heard confrontation at their downtown Los Angeles penthouse that led to her claim that he struck her, leaving her to seek a restraining order. "Sorry, I'm just leaving Amanda's birthday now," Heard wrote. "Just let me know when you have a minute. And I'll give you a call...Nothing I have to say to you should elicit anything but, a sense of ease...All my love and profound apologies."

Heard's attorneys also played a video that Heard took of Depp slamming his kitchen cupboard and breaking other objects. In it, he pours a tall glass of wine. "Have you drunk this whole thing this morning?" Heard asks, before he discovers that she had been recording with her phone, and he appears to throw it. "Clearly I was having a bad time," Depp told the court.

He acknowledged that he "did assault a couple of cabinets, but I did not touch Miss Heard." According to 'Deadline', he said that Heard had illegally recorded the video, and that it "the most interesting part" was that she was shown smiling at the end of it. "One does stray from complete control over their emotions at times, and that is very normal primal thing to do," Depp said. Another audio clip was played where Depp is heard using the "C" word about Heard, followed by the sound of what appeared to be him throwing up.

Rottenborn appeared determined at points not just to play clips once, but multiple times. In a text that Depp sent to Heard's father, David, in late December, 2015, the actor wrote, "Yes, I f****d up and went too far in our fight." Depp said that the text didn't refer to a "physical fight." But Rottenborn tried to show that a confrontation earlier in the month did get physical. He played audio in which Depp tells heard that "I head butted you in the fucking forehead. That doesn't break a nose."

"I did say those words, but I was using the words that Miss Heard was using, but there was not an intentional head butt," Depp said. "If you want to have a peaceful conversation with Ms Heard, you might have to placate a little bit."

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