Actor Johnny Depp spoke out on Tuesday during his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
He refutes the accusations of domestic violence and claims not to be "a junkie".
On Tuesday, it was Johnny Depp's turn to testify in his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Right off the bat, the actor claimed he never laid a hand on his ex-wife – or any of his girlfriends – and that the whole affair was all “evil” lies.
The interpreter of Jack Sparrow explained that if he is ready to reveal the darkest aspects of his life, it is so that his children, Jack and Lily-Rose Depp, know that "the horrible things they have read about their father are not true”.
“The truth is the only thing that interests me.
Lies don't get you anywhere", he added before recalling his childhood at the hands of an abusive mother, an absent father and his first experience with psychotropic drugs at the age of 11, the "nerve pills" from his mother, Betty Sue, to "escape" her chaotic daily life.
He refuted the image of junkie that his ex-wife would try to present.
"I'm not a maniac who needs to be stoned all the time," he said, adding that he had many periods of sobriety before becoming addicted to opiates after an injury on the set of
Pirates of the Caribbean 4
where he was prescribed painkillers.
He added in the wake of having taken cocaine with the sister of his ex-wife, Whitney, on several occasions when he hosted her in one of his apartments.
Anger and threats
The actor also detailed how he fell in love with Amber Heard on the set of
Rhum Express
in 2011. During a scene where their two characters kiss, he "felt something that I shouldn't have to feel ".
“She had a wife and I had Vanessa and the little ones,” he explained, confident that they only really started to be together during the promotion of the feature film, two years later.
If he described the first eighteen months of his romance with Amber Heard as idyllic, he described several everyday incidents from there, during which she would have been angry.
He cites in particular his ex-wife's anger when he did not want to go to bed at the same time as her.
"I couldn't understand why, over 50, I couldn't go to sleep when I wanted to," he said.
He returns to the messages in which he said he wanted to kill her
Johnny Depp also said he was "embarrassed and ashamed" of the text messages he sent to his friend Paul Bettany, while his marriage was falling apart.
These messages
had already been exposed during the trial in London against the tabloid
The Sun.
The actor had written there how he wanted to kill her.
"After Miss Heard's unfortunate words that made their way into my head and my heart, and these two things are totally opposite, I tried to find the best way to express something to a friend," he said. he declares.
Johnny Depp's testimony continues today and this time he must also be questioned by Amber Heard's lawyers.
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On day two of Johnny Depp's trial against Amber Heard, the actor's childhood friend drops the actress' accusations
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