From hair clumps to breaking bed, Johnny Depp accused Amber Heard of repeatedly lying in the past
Audiotapes leaked earlier this month where Amber Heard reportedly admitted to physically abusing Johnny Depp are allegedly only the latest examples of "falsities" purportedly promoted by the actress.
Depp has repeatedly pointed out in his 22-page-long detailed official declaration he submitted to the circuit court of Fairfax County, Virginia, that Heard "lied" about many things in the past.
"Ms Heard’s fabricated domestic violence allegations against me are categorically and demonstrably false. I have denied Ms Heard’s allegations vehemently since she first made them in May 2016, when she walked into court to obtain a temporary restraining order with painted-on bruises that witnesses and surveillance footage show she did not possess each day of the preceding week."
Here are a few things that the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' actor alleged the 'Aquaman' star lied about in the past.
Called a lesbian police officer who arrested her 'homophobic'
Heard was arrested for allegedly assaulting her ex-wife, Tasya Van Ree, in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 2009.
"Ms Heard lied about this domestic violence incident under oath, saying 'it was a trumped-up charge and it was dropped immediately for being such.' Ms Heard also subsequently tried to minimize this arrest for domestic violence to the media, claiming that the police officers were 'homophobic' and 'misogynists,'" the declaration read.
However, the arresting officer, Beverly Leonard, who happened to be a lesbian activist, said later in a statement on Facebook: “I am so not homophobic or mysoginistic [sic]! The arrest was made because an assault occurred (I witnessed it) and the parties were in a domestic relationship."
Claimed Depp beat her so bad that the bed broke
Heard had claimed on December 15, 2015, that her ex-husband beat her up so badly that she ended up "splitting her lip, bashing her in the nose so hard it nearly broke, blackening both her eyes." She also added at the time that the actor was so violent that he "broke the bed in the process."
"Her account is disputed by multiple witnesses who each provided sworn testimony that they engaged face to face with a makeup-free and clearly uninjured Ms Heard the following day, December 16, 2016, immediately prior to her appearance on the 'James Corden' show, which can also be viewed to see the severe injuries she claims are a lie," the declaration said.
Suggested that Depp cut off his own finger
While he was married to Heard, Depp said that she would often throw objects at him when she was angry. One of them happened to be a vodka bottle that struck the marble countertop where his hand was resting and exploded. As a result, it shattered the bone in his finger and entirely severed the tip of his finger. He ended up getting three surgeries to reconstruct his finger.
To hide the real story, Depp stated that Heard leaked to the media "shifting, false stories" including one where "I cut off my finger by punching a hole in a wall" and another where he lost his finger "smashing a plastic phone to smithereens while violently beating her in a 'three-day ordeal.'"
Screamed that Depp was hitting her when he was standing at the other end of the room
When Depp confronted Heard on May 21, 2016, he had already made up his mind to file for a divorce after learning that his the-then wife had defecated on his penthouse bed in his absence. Following an argument with her regarding the same, Depp threw a phone at the sofa where Heard was sitting. Although the device allegedly landed four feet from her body, she proclaimed "that I had thrown the phone at her and hit her in the face" and screamed "Johnny stop hitting me."
"Heard claimed under oath that I 'wound up my arm like a baseball pitcher' and threw her cell phone into her face as hard as I could from point-blank range, 'with great aim,' and then pulled her hair and further battered her face 'with some appendage' of my body. All of these hoax allegations are demonstrably false," the declaration stated.
Submitted fake hair to court
On December 16, 2015, Heard summoned the couple's former estate manager, Kevin Murphy, to the penthouse claiming that Depp had assaulted her and pulled clumps of her hair out in the process, and showed him a clump of blonde hair on the ground. At the time, Murphy took a time-and date-stamped photograph of the hair evidence and later compared it to the hair clump Heard submitted to the court under oath. "The hair clumps do not resemble each other, as Murphy testified in his declaration," the court papers stated.