“I’ll f*** her burned corpse.”: Johnny Depp’s text about Amber Heard
Johnny Depp’s disturbing text messages regarding his ex-wife Amber Heard were displayed in court on Thursday during their highly publicised $100 million defamation trial. While texting Heard in 2013, Johnny Depp expressed his desire to burn and drown the actor.
The communications were brought up during Johnny Depp’s cross-examination by Heard’s lawyer Benjamin Rottenborn, according to the Daily Mail.
When Rottenborn said, “Paul Bettany is a good friend you’ve done drugs with?” he was referencing Depp’s drinking and drug usage.
J.A.R.V.I.S.’s voice actor and Depp acknowledged to using cocaine, taking drugs, and drinking alcohol with each other while working together on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
At this point, Amber Heard’s lawyer read out some horrifying messages that Depp wrote to Bettany back in June of 2013. One of them shouted, “Let’s burn Amber!”
Bettany responded: “Having thought it through I don’t think we should burn Amber”.
Johnny Depp’s response was: “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f*** her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”
“Did I read that right?” In court, Rottenborn questioned Depp. The actor said, “You certainly did.”
When the lawyer asked “You wrote that about the woman who would later become your wife,” Depp stated, “Yes.”
After Amber Heard, 35, accused Depp, 58, of domestic violence, he filed a $50 million lawsuit against her.
Depp told a jury in Virginia on Wednesday that Heard was the one who grew aggressive and would “strike out” with a slap or shove throughout their relationship.
Heard once allegedly chopped off Depp’s right middle finger with a vodka bottle he flung at his hand during an altercation. , He was repeatedly beaten. These charges have been rejected by the actress, who claims that she threw items at him in order to escape while he was assaulting her and once attacked him because she believed he would throw her sister down stairs, as reported by Reuters.
Heard claimed, among other things, that her ex-husband attacked her on a trip from Boston to Los Angeles in 2014, among other charges of violence. Depp texted Bettany a week after the trip with the following message: “I’m gonna properly stop the booze thing darling. Drank all night before I picked Amber up to fly to LA. Ugly mate. No food for days. Powders, half a bottle whiskey, thousand red bulls, pills, two bottles of champagne.
“I’m admittedly too f***ed in the head to spray my rage at the one I love for little reason as well, I’m too old to be that guy but pills are fine.”