Johnny Depp scrawled “I love you” on a mirror with blood from a finger he severed during an alleged “three-day ordeal of assaults” on Amber Heard just a month into their marriage, his libel trial was told Thursday.
Heard was left “scared for her life” and barricading herself in a room after Depp tore off her nightgown, shoved her onto a ping-pong table and choked her against a fridge, she claimed in a statement read in court.
Calling it a “three-day ordeal of physical assault,” Heard’s statement claims she was left with injuries “including a broken lip, swollen nose, and cuts all over her body,” the Daily Mail said.
The alleged attack in Australia in 2015 came when Depp was “completely off [his] head on drink and drugs” — at one point even taking 10 ecstasy tablets in two hours, lawyer Sasha Wass claimed, according to The Sun.
Depp “vehemently” denied the assault claims, but admitted they had a furious row over Heard’s refusal to sign a postnuptial agreement — admitting he “possibly” also accused her of cheating, the reports said.
Wass told the court that Depp “smashed bottle after bottle” while accusing his then-new wife of having an affair with Billy Bob Thornton while he filmed the latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie.
He also spat in her face and threatened to “f–k her corpse,” mirroring language in texts he had sent to fellow actor Paul Bettany, Wass claimed.
Depp insisted Heard was the only violent one, hurling a vodka bottle at him that “severed my finger and crushed my bones.” She, however, insists he caused the injury himself when he smashed a telephone into the wall.
The court was shown photos of how the actor scrawled messages on mirrors in the house they were staying in — with Depp admitting some were in blood from his severed finger, the Mail said.
“Look what you made me do!” he reportedly snapped at Heard as he wrote the final ‘u’ in “I love you,” the court was told.
Graffiti in paint also referred to his jealousy over his wife working on a film with Thornton, writing, “Starring Billy Bob, Easy Amber,” the court heard.
Another message saying “Call Carly Simon, she said it better, babe” — referring to the singer’s hit, “You’re So Vain” — was written by Heard after he had gone to a hospital, Depp said.
Depp told the court he “knew exactly what I was doing” — and conceded he felt “considerable pain,” the Mail said.
Wass alleged the rented house was left in “carnage,” with an estimated $190,000 damage as Depp trashed it after taking 10 ecstasy tablets in two hours and downing a bottle of vodka and wine, The Sun said.
He even allegedly peed on the floor and painting a “fake d–k” on the crotch area of a female painting in the house — which he admitted was “possible” given his demented state of mind.
“When I realized that the tip of my finger was missing — pouring blood profusely, tip of the bone sticking out — I believe I went into some kind of breakdown, some species of nervous breakdown,” Depp told the court, according to the Evening Standard.
“I couldn’t live, didn’t want to live.”
Depp acknowledged in coiurt that the pair had a violent row, saying it was because Heard refused to sign a postnuptial agreement — and said it marked the “end end” of their marriage.
“I was convinced it was never going to get any better, only worse, and worse was death,” he said, according to the report.
“So this [graffiti] is a message to her, ‘Good luck and be careful at the top’, in reference to her ambition to be a big star,” he reportedly said.
He also admitted having told his wife more than once, “Listen, we are a crime scene waiting to happen.”
However, Depp insisted all the assault claims were “fabricated and vicious.”
“I vehemently deny it, and would go so far as to say it is pedestrian fiction,” he told the court.
Wass insisted that by the end of 2015, Depp was regularly attacking his wife, however — citing one fight where he allegedly broke her nose, pulled out chunks of her hair and broke their bed while pushing her into it.
“I will f—ing kill you!” she says Depp screamed at his wife during the attack in their Los Angeles home — with the actor also accused of hitting her sister, Whitney, when she tried to intervene.
Depp had dragged his wife around the house by her hair and repeatedly punched her, Wass said — allegedly headbutting her when she challenged him by saying, “Oh, you think you’re a f—ing tough guy?”
After grabbing her by the throat and punching her in the back of the head, they ended up on their bed, where he continued punching her, pulling out chunks of hair while pushing her face into the mattress, Wass said, according to the Mail.
“Ms. Heard screamed and feared for her life,” Wass said — noting the bed frame broke during the savagery of his alleged attack that came after Heard accused the star of cheating with an ex.
“It’s a lie,” Depp insisted, having repeatedly replied “no ma’am” to Wass when she asked about numerous accusations of violence.
Shown pictures of Heard with two black eyes, Depp insisted he was the one attacked, saying he only defended himself — and conceding he may have accidentally headbutted her during the struggle.
All of the accusations were part of a conspiracy to paint him as “a wetbrain, a savage, an uncontrollable maniac, a monster,” he told the court.
“She was building a wonderful dossier, an insurance policy for when we did break up,” he said.
Depp was giving evidence for the third day in his libel case against The Sun newspaper over an April 2018 article that said he was a “wife-beater,” which he denies — and instead says his “sociopathic” ex-wife was the violent one in their marriage.
Depp is also suing Heard for $50 million in the U.S. for allegedly defaming him in a Washington Post article about domestic abuse. That case is due to be heard next year.
With Post wires