After a leaked audio recording appears to reveal Amber Heard admitting to starting physical fights with her ex-husband Johnny Depp, the hashtag #JusticeForJohnnyDepp trended on Twitter as fans expressed support for the actor.
The couple have accused each other of domestic violence in legal documents after Depp filed a $50 million lawsuit, saying Heard defamed him after the Aquaman star published an op-ed in The Washington Post.
The Aquaman actress, 33, opens up about her violent tantrums in the taped conversations the estranged couple made in 2015 as they tried to talk through their marriage problems. She says:
‘I’m sorry that I didn’t, uh, uh, hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you, it was not punching you. Babe, you’re not punched,’ Heard tells Depp, attempting to downplay her outburst the previous evening.
‘I don’t know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you’re fine, I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you.’
Heard – an ambassador for women’s rights and outspoken domestic violence advocate – taunts Depp for fleeing the late night dust-up, telling him: ‘You are such a baby. Grow the f**k up Johnny.’
She warns the 56-year-old Oscar nominee: ‘You poke an animal enough, it is eventually, it doesn’t matter how friendly it is, it’s not cool.’
It’s understood there are several more tapes out there, each promising further bombshells as the former lovers trade blood-curdling allegations of domestic violence in a civil defamation case brought last year by Depp. In the tape, Johnny Depp says:
‘I left last night. Honestly, I swear to you because I just couldn’t take the idea of more physicality, more physical abuse on each other,’ an exasperated Depp pleads in the recording.
‘Because had we continued it, it would have gotten f**king bad. And baby, I told you this once. I’m scared to death we are a f**king crime scene right now.’
But Heard – who filed for divorce in May 2016 accusing Depp of beating her during their toxic 18-month marriage – warns: ‘I can’t promise you I won’t get physical again. God I f**king sometimes get so mad I lose it.’
The troubling episode is one of numerous clashes the couple argue over during the informal two-hour ‘therapy’ session recorded consensually on Heard’s cell phone.
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