Johnny Depp’s Violent, Bizarre Text Messages Revealed In Court – Perez Hilton

March 1, 2020 Off By WhoThatCelebsRS

A few weeks ago some pretty shocking phone calls were leaked, private conversations in which Amber Heard admitted to committing acts of domestic violence against Johnny Depp — and later taunting him about his inability to tell the world because no one would believe a petite woman like her was hurting him so much.

As evidence goes in the ongoing he said/she said battle between the exes, it was all very damning for Amber.

However, as much as many fans of the Edward Scissorhands star have made it known they want them to, the phone transcripts weren’t perfectly exculpatory for Johnny either.

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It sounded to us like he admitted to getting violent in response, which is also not OK at all.

Well now more phone evidence has become public — text messages which may poke holes in Johnny’s version of events, or at the very least provide a window into his state of mind at the time.

The texts come as a result of Johnny’s lawsuit against UK newspaper The Sun and executive editor Dan Wootton over an April 2018 op-ed with the headline:

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Depp is suing for libel, saying the tabloid was telling its readers he was “guilty, on overwhelming evidence, of serious domestic violence against his then wife, causing significant injury and leading to her fearing for her life, for which the claimant was constrained to pay no less than £5 million to compensate her, and which resulted in him being subjected to a continuing court restraining order; and for that reason is not fit to work in the film industry.” Johnny has always vehemently denied Amber’s accusations of abuse (and is also suing her for her own op-ed in the Washington Post).

Johnny even showed up to court on Wednesday only to find the lawyers for the defense had a secret weapon — 70,000 text messages which were “accidentally” disclosed to them by Depp’s former attorneys, the ones he fired.

Damn. Do not make enemies of your lawyers, y’all.

The defense’s legal strategy seems to be to prove what they wrote wasn’t libel because it was true; they showed the court a few of those messages in which, in their estimate, Johnny made reference to violence toward his then girlfriend.

According to DailyMail.com, the earliest message presented was from March 2013 when Johnny texted Amber and referenced an incident they believe is the same one in which she previously said they had a fight over a painting — and that he assaulted her.

In the message, Johnny describes it as a “horrendous moment” and more colorfully as a “disco bloodbath.” But he never specifically refers to what happened in any detail.

Then there were a couple messages to friend Paul Bettany, with whom Johnny co-starred in the universally panned comedy Mortdecai.