JOHNNY Depp told his multi-million dollar US libel trial against ex-wife Amber Heard yesterday that she had “pure hatred” for him.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 58, said his marriage descended into “madness, chaos and violence”.
He said Aquaman actress Heard, 35, would lash out and physically attack him, telling the jury in Fairfax, Virginia: “It seemed like pure hatred for me.
“If I stayed to argue I was sure it would escalate into violence and often times it did.
“Miss Heard, in her frustration and her rage and her anger, she would strike out.
“It could begin with a slap, a shove, throwing a TV remote at my head, throwing a glass of wine in my face, but all in all it was just a constant.”
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Depp alleged Heard used the abuse he suffered from his mother Betty Sue Palmer in childhood to “verbally decimate” him.
He said: “I was not allowed to be right, not allowed to have a voice.
“At a certain point you start to slowly realise you’re in a relationship with your mother in a sense.
“I know that sounds perverse, obtuse, but the fact is that some people search for weaknesses and sensitivities in people.”
He is suing Heard for £39million after she called herself a victim of domestic violence in a newspaper article.
She has countersued him for £77million over claims his lawyer made about her.
Depp lost a 2020 UK High Court case against The Sun after a judge ruled we were right to call him a wife beater.
The US trial continues.
