Johnny Depp's doc recalls treating actor's severed finger allegedly cut off by Amber Heard
Johnny Depp’s doctor recalled details about treating the actor after his ex-wife Amber Heard allegedly severed his finger in 2015. Dr David Kipper during a pre-recorded deposition played in Virginia court on Monday, April 18, said he wasn’t aware how Depp’s finger had been injured when he treated the actor's wound back in March 2015 in Australia.
Depp has previously said that his finger was cut off when his ex-wife, Amber Heard "threw a large glass vodka bottle" at him, which hit his finger on a countertop, shattering and ultimately severing it. "I had to have three surgeries to reconstruct my finger and contracted MRSA three times," Depp said in his first declaration as part of a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard in 2019. The actor added, "I feared that I would lose my finger, my arm and my life."The defamation trial between Depp and Heard began on Monday, April 11, in Fairfax, Virginia following Depp's lawsuit against his ex-wife in March 2019, arguing that Heard defamed him in an op-ed published in The Washington Post in December 2018.
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When asked in the deposition about a text message between Dr Kipper and Depp where the actor claimed that he had cut his own finger, Kipper responded, "I think that's what it said, yes." Kipper said while he cleaned Depp's wound, he didn't accompany him to the hospital. He also added that he wasn't sure how the actor had been injured. Depp's doctor also shared that the actor told the ER doctor, he'd cut his own finger with a knife.
The doctor, who still serves as Depp's physician, said he didn't notice any injuries to Heard at the time of the incident, and a chef found Depp's fingertip in the kitchen area. The doctor shared that he noticed broken glass in the former couple’s home but he wasn’t aware where it had come from. "There was blood around the home," Kipper said, but not "specifically" on the glass.
While Kipper, who also served as Heard's physician, said neither she nor Depp reported any physical abuse to him, the former couple's marriage counselor said the pair engaged in "mutual abuse" over the course of their marriage. In a deposition recorded on February 21, played for the court on Thursday, April 14, Dr Laurel Anderson recalled the marriage counseling she had with the pair back in 2015.
The counselor testified that Depp had been "well-controlled" for the majority of his life but he was "triggered" by Heard. Anderson told jurors, "They engaged in what I saw as mutual abuse." Anderson claimed that Heard would sometimes initiate fights to "keep him with her" because "abandonment was her worst nightmare."
Anderson said Heard once told her it was "a point of pride to her, if she felt disrespected to initiate a fight." Further explaining it, the counselor said, "If he was going to leave her to de-escalate from the fight, she would strike him to keep him there, she would rather be in a fight than have him leave." Anderson also observed "multiple" small bruises on Heard's face at an in-person meeting.