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Johnny Depp says 'cruel' Amber Heard withheld his rehab medicines as he lay sobbing like a child on detox trip

Depp denies kicking, pushing and grabbing Heard by her hair while she nursed him through an 'agonizing' withdrawal in 2014
UPDATED JUL 9, 2020
(Getty Images)
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Johnny Depp, on Thursday, July 9, accused ex-wife Amber Heard of withholding his rehab medicine while he lay "sobbing like a child" as he suffered from withdrawal on a detox trip to his private island in 2014 before his wedding. Depp made the revelation and presented evidence while taking a stand for his libel trial in London which continued for the third day on Thursday.

The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' actor has sued British outlet The Sun for slander after it described him as a "wife-beater" following claims by Heard, 34, that he repeatedly attacked her. The 57-year-old, under cross-examination by The Sun's QC Sasha Wass, discussed his 2014 trip to his private island Little Hall Pond's Cay and denied kicking, pushing and grabbing Heard by her hair while she nursed him through an "agonizing" withdrawal from prescription painkiller Roxicodone.

Depp said that months before his marriage to Heard, he retired to the island with her and a nurse as he attempted to beat his addiction to the prescription drug. Depp, in his witness statement, claimed that Heard "often intervened and withheld medicine from me" while they were on the island. The actor described the instances as "one of the cruelest things that she has ever done." He added that after Heard denied him medicines, he would be left "sobbing like a child" on the floor having the "heebie-jeebies" and start shaking and having stomach cramps. 

Actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp attend The Art of Elysium 2016 HEAVEN Gala presented by Vivienne Westwood & Andreas Kronthaler at 3LABS on January 9, 2016 in Culver City, California. (Getty Images)

Text messages exchanged between Heard and an onsite nurse who was with them throughout the withdrawal showed the actor telling medics to come and help when Depp allegedly "pushed" her. Depp, however, has denied attacking Heard, claiming that he was "in no physical condition" to have assaulted her. He also called the accusations laid by Heard against him her "insurance policy."

QC Wass, while speaking at the court on Thursday, stated that Depp and Heard were on one side of his private island during their 2014 trip while the nurse, identified as Debbie Lloyd, was staying on the other side of it. The barrister referred to a page of text messages in evidence sent by Heard to the nurse stating: "Issue seems to have arisen again. All of a sudden he's flipping. He's screaming, he's so mad he pushed me and I asked him to get out. Don't want to keep you guys." The nurse reportedly asked: "Should we come over?" to which Heard replied with a "yes".

Wass, at the court, asked Depp: "Are you aware of any reason that Ms Heard would ask the medics to come over if you were so mad that you pushed her. Can you think why she would write that if it wasn't the truth?" Depp replied with: "I can only say from my point of view I was in no physical condition to push anyone. I'm denying I pushed her. I'm going to suggest that the testimony is fabricated."

The lawyer then asked: "And this is part of the hoax is it?" Depp said: "I believe it's part of the dossier that was an insurance policy for her. I wouldn't know if she followed the instructions of the nurse to the letter."

Wass then suggested that Heard was "effectively acting as your nurse," to which the actor said: "She was in control of the meds, she was in control of when I was taking the meds, she would give me the time to take the meds." Wass then asked: "She wasn't the one in detox, was she?" to which Depp said that she was not. The barrister added: "I am going to suggest you lied about the extent of her drug use and alcohol consumption in order to discredit her in this court hearing." Depp replied to this with a "no."

The lawyer continued: "She was doing what she was being told to do by the experts." Depp then said: "I don't know that she explicitly followed the orders of the registered nurse to the letter." Wass said: "The idea of a detoxification process is you come off drugs. She (Ms Heard) was withholding drugs that you were not supposed to have." Depp then asked: "Why would she have drugs that I was not supposed to have?"

Wass then said that Depp's assertion that Heard had withheld his medication during the trip was "not substantiated by any evidence." To which the actor replied with: "I can say that there were incidents where, for example, the time allotted for me to take my medication by the nurse or by Ms Heard was 4pm on that date." He added that he would sometimes have the "heebie-jeebies" by about 3:15 pm and would start shaking and having stomach cramps.

Depp added that when he told Heard that he needed his medication, she refused and said "no, four o'clock." He added: "My body clock was needing medication to stop the onslaught... I was not in good shape. For someone this low... it is the lowest point I believe I have ever been in my life... on the floor, sobbing like a child and had still not received the medicine."

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