Since April 11, Johnny Depp takes on his ex-wife Amber Heard in a new trial. As part of the defamation lawsuit he is bringing against her, the content of very violent SMS sent by the actor to relatives has been revealed.
Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: will one of the actors really win this legal battle?
Since their divorce, the names of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp have only been associated with the judicial and media war they are waging. However, the personal and professional stakes are high for the two actors. If Johnny Depp was fired from the third installment Fantastic Beastsa saga in which he played the role of Gellert Grindelwald, he also refused to continue his collaboration with Disney, which is currently preparing the sixth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. For her part, Amber Heard has not lost her position in the various films in which she was engaged, but claims not to be offered major roles since the start of her fight against her ex-husband.
New twist in the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard affair
This April 22, so that Amber Heard is celebrating her 36th birthday, his lawyers seem to have reserved a nice gift for him. To ensure his defense during the trial held in Washington, they put forward thethe actor’s recurrent drug use but also revealed the very violent content of text messages sent to his relatives.
In these, Johnny Depp does not weigh his words for show all the anger he has towards his ex-wife : “I don’t ever want to lay eyes on Amber, that filthy bitch again,” he had notably sent to one of his friends in 2015, two months after their marriage. It’s certainly not the most damning text message sent by the actor. In 2013 he wrote: “Let’s burn Amber. I’ll fuck her burnt corpse afterwards, to make sure she’s dead”. Difficult to defend against such an attack … To justify himself, the actor of Pirates of the Caribbean claimed to have consumed illicit substances during this periodresponsible for this excess of violence, without ever having abused it.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were married for two years but their union ended in an unnamed failure. Since then, they both accuse each other of defamation: the actor claims $50 million for his platform given to the washington post in 2018, when this last counterattack Johnny Depp in defamation and asks him $100 million.
