Johnny Depp is seeking $50 million in damages.
In the ongoing defamation lawsuit between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, the actor is faced with a text sent to his former talent agent Christian Carino in which he talks about the relationship between Ms. Heard and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. talked to.
The text sent by Mr. Depp is very explicit and obscene, and screenshot of are viral on the internet.
“Come meet me face-to-face…I will show her things she has never seen before…”, the actor said in a text message read before jurors in court on Wednesday.
The actor has accused Ms. Hurd of having an affair with the SpaceX CEO during their marriage.
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In a message shown to jurors, Ms. Depp called Ms. Heard a “gold digger, low level, penny a dozen, filthy, pointless, dangling flappy fish market”.
In the message read out in the court, he further said, “I can only hope that the karma proceeds and the gift of breath takes away from him.” Asked if he had written the message, Mr. Depp replied in the affirmative.
Miss Heard is seen crying in the video.
Mr Depp sued Ms Heard in Fairfax over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse”.
Texas-born Heard did not name Depp in the piece, but he sued him to allege he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages.
during Wednesday’s testimonyHe also said it has been “unimaginably cruel” to hear of his “heinous” allegations of domestic abuse.
“No human being is perfect, certainly not, none of us, but I’ve never been sexually abused, physically abused in my life,” said 58-year-old Depp.
Taking a witness stand near the end of the six-week trial, Mr. Depp was asked by his lawyers how it was to hear Ms. Heard’s testimony.
“Horrible, ridiculous, outrageous, ridiculous, painful, barbaric, unimaginably cruel, cruel and all-around false,” he told the seven-person jury. “All liars.”
Mr Depp said he brought legal action because he needed to address “what I had been carrying on my back, reluctantly, for six years.”