'What if I peel your f**king hair': 'Emotional' iO Tillett Wright says he heard Amber Heard SCREAM
Amber Heard’s friend iO Tillett Wright testified on Tuesday, May 17, about a phone call during which Johnny Depp threatened to "peel" Heard's hair back. Wright sounded close to tears in a taped deposition from March 2022 while describing how Depp accused Wright and Heard of defecating on his side of the bed.
When Wright and Heard laughed at the idea, Depp allegedly became furious before he threatened his ex-wife. "You think I hit you?” Depp allegedly asked Heard. “What if I peel your f**king hair back?” Wright, who was on speaker with then-married couple, described how the pair fought until there was a scream from Heard before the phone dropped. Wright was previously close to both Heard, 36, and Depp, 58.
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For the uninitiated, Heard took the witness stand for her third day of testimony in Fairfax, Virginia, in Depp's $50 million defamation lawsuit and denied defecating in the marital bed she shared with Johnny Depp back at the time. She claimed that the real culprit was the pair's Yorkshire terrier. Reportedly, Depp had previously said that he believed either Heard or one of her friends was responsible for the 'feces' incident.
iO Tillett Wright describes a time when, on the phone, he could hear J-hunny D-pp hit Amber Heard and say, “you think i hit you? what if i peel your fucking hair back?” followed by screams from Amber, prompting him to hang up and call 911 #IStandWithAmberHeard pic.twitter.com/CdojIRV4HV
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Wright, 36, said that Depp was kind but troubled, and could be “incredibly cruel and mean” when intoxicated. He said that when drunk, Depp would insult everybody, including Heard and even his fans. Wright also said that Depp did drugs in front of his children, Lily-Rose, 22, and Jack, 20. “[Heard] has no talent,” the actor allegedly told Wright. “And when her tits start to sag and her face gets wrinkly, nobody is going to be interested in her for anything, so she better figure out another way to survive.” Wright said Depp made these remarks while Heard was upstairs, crying.
Heard had also sent a chilling video to Wright in February 2016, which was shown in court. “Did something happen to you this morning?” Heard asks Depp in the clip, as he slams a cabinet door. The pair keeps arguing until Depp comes closer to the camera and seemingly pours a large glass of wine. “You want to see crazy?” he says. “I’ll give you f**king crazy.” Depp then notices the camera and the screen goes black.
In the case's recent developments, Johnny Depp’s lawyer grilled Amber Heard on her claim that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. The lawyer also presented apparent love notes in which the 'Aquaman' actress wrote she wanted to “rip” him apart. Depp’s attorney Camille Vasquez began the second day of cross-examining Heard by asking her about her claim that Depp violated her with a bottle of Maker’s Mark bourbon during a fight in March 2015, when the two were married. Vasquez asked why there were no medical records of the abuse. “I didn’t seek treatment,” Heard said in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia.
As Vasquez pushed Heard on the progression of the fight that night, she said she cannot remember the exact sequence of events. “As I have always said, I don’t remember exactly what happened first, or the sequence,” she said. Heard had testified earlier that she feared the bottle inserted inside her was broken, but a photo taken after the alleged assault, presented in court, showed the bottle was intact.
However, Depp has claimed that he was the victim and not Heard. He maintained that he lost the tip of his middle finger when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him. He alleged that he then tried to hide from Heard, who went around the house looking for him, banging on doors.
“You’re the one who assaulted someone with a bottle in Australia, isn’t that right, Ms. Heard?” Vasquez asked. “You weren’t scared of him at all, were you?” “I didn’t assault Johnny in Australia. I didn’t assault Johnny ever,” Heard responded.
Vasquez also asked Heard about love notes she wrote to Depp in the months after the alleged assault. “True love isn’t just about the madness of passion … it’s about your best friend,” she wrote in one missive to her husband. “I want to rip you apart.” The handwritten note was signed "Slim", which is a name Depp used to address her back at the time. In another letter, Heard wrote to Depp that he was the “last person I ever meant to hurt” and “there is never a good enough reason to hurt you.”
Heard claimed that she believed Depp was committed to sobriety after the alleged fight in Australia. She said that most of the assaults and abuse happened when Depp was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. “When things were good, they were really good,” she said.
The trial is now in its fifth week. Depp and Heard are squaring off over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post, where she called herself a domestic violence survivor.