{"id":1061522,"date":"2022-04-20T05:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/johnny-depp-takes-the-stand-talks-drug-use-and-alleged-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T05:50:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:50:52","slug":"johnny-depp-takes-the-stand-talks-drug-use-and-alleged-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/johnny-depp-takes-the-stand-talks-drug-use-and-alleged-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp takes the stand, talks drug use and alleged domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny Depp accused Amber Heard of giving \u201cgrossly embellished\u201d accounts of his substance abuse.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old actor is suing his ex-wife for defamation over a Washington Post oped she wrote, in which she referred to herself as a victim of domestic violence, and she has countersued her former spouse, with the legal battle taking place in Virginia.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Johnny took the stand at Fairfax County Courthouse, and though he admitted to developing an addiction to pain medication following an injury on the set of \u2018Pirates of the Caribbean 4\u2019, taking his mother\u2019s \u201cnerve pills\u201d from the age of just 11, and indulging in various substances over the years to \u201cnumb myself of the ghosts, the wraiths that were still with me from my youth, he insisted the \u2018Aquaman\u2019 star had made some \u201cplainly false\u201d allegations relating to his use of drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n

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Highlighting various long periods of sobriety over the years and explaining how he had detoxed from the prescription drugs, he told the court: \u201cThe characterisation of my \u2018substance abuse\u2019 that\u2019s been delivered by Ms Heard is grossly embellished.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m sorry to say, but a lot of it is just plainly false. I think that it was an easy target for her to hit. Because once you\u2019ve trusted somebody for a certain amount of years, and you\u2019ve told them all the secrets of your life, that information can, of course, be used against you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u2018Edward Scissorhands\u2019 actor also looked back on the early days of his relationship with Amber and admitted she seemed \u201ctoo good to be true\u201d, though he was aware of things that \u201cmight be a bit of a dilemma at some point\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn the beginning of my relationship with Ms Heard, from what I recall, it was as if she was too good to be true.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was attentive, she was loving, she was smart, she was kind, she was funny, she was understanding and we had many things in common.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor that year or year and a half it was amazing, there were a couple of things that stuck in my head that I noticed that I thought might be a little bit of a dilemma at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

He recalled how Amber developed a \u201croutine\u201d when he came home from work, in which she would give him a glass of wine and take his boots off, but when he once disrupted the ritual by removing his own footwear, the \u2018Danish Girl\u2019 star became \u201cvisibly shaken\u201d and upset.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cOnce you notice something like that then you start to notice other little titbits and things that come out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen within a year or year and a half she had become another person almost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in his testimony, Johnny told the court how Amber would get upset if he wanted to stay up late and watch TV when she went to bed.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Black Mass\u2019 star will return to the stand on Wednesday, while Amber is scheduled to testify later in the trial.<\/p>\n

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