Ellen Barkin, actor and ex-girlfriend of Johnny Depp, has claimed that the actor gave her a quaalude (sedative and hypnotic remedy) the first time they had sex. She added he was drunk numerous the time, was controlling and in addition abusive. The revelations had been made by Ellen within the deposition that was launched when 6,000 pages of court docket paperwork from their authorized battle had been unsealed. She testified as a witness within the defamation swimsuit filed by Johnny in opposition to his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard. (Also Read | Johnny Depp’s lawyer says actor would’ve moved on from defamation case if Amber Heard hadn’t filed appeal)
Calling Johnny ‘a jealous and controlling man’, Ellen recalled the actor would ask her ‘the place are you going, who’re you going with’ and ‘what did you do final night time’. Speaking about an incident, she mentioned that when she had a scratch on her again ‘that bought him very, very offended as a result of he insisted it got here from having sex with an individual who wasn’t him’.
Daily Mail quoted Ellen as speaking concerning the first time they had sex, “He gave me a quaalude and asked me if I wanted to f***.” She mentioned that their relationship lasted a number of months and they would go to one another’s home three or 4 instances per week. Ellen additionally mentioned, “He was drunk all of the, most, numerous the time.” She mentioned that she noticed him utilizing cocaine, marijuana and hallucinogenic medicine. Ellen recalled him telling her as soon as that he was ‘tripping’ and added that he ‘was all the time consuming or smoking a joint’. Ellen known as Johnny ‘a yeller’ who was ‘verbally abusive’. She recalled him yelling at his assistant.
She additionally spoke about an incident, when Johnny threw a bottle of wine at her, saying she ‘wasn’t shocked’ as ‘there was always an air of violence around him’. Ellen mentioned, “Mr Depp threw a wine bottle throughout the lodge room in a single occasion, in Las Vegas whereas taking pictures Fear and Loathing. A combat was going on, between Johnny Depp and his pals within the room, the assistant.” Though she could not bear in mind if the bottle was full or if it hit her or anybody else, she added that it was a ‘toss’ that got here from the opposite aspect of the lodge room. She additionally added that the friendship went from ‘purely platonic friendship to romantic’. Asking to appropriate the file, Ellen asked to ‘change that to sexual?’.
Ellen’s testimony was videotaped in November 2019 and performed for the seven-person jury listening to the defamation case in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia. Earlier, Johnny filed swimsuit in opposition to Amber over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 by which she described herself as a “public determine representing home abuse.”
On June 1, the jury awarded Johnny $15 million in damages, however Amber had to pay $10.35 million due to a Virginia regulation limiting punitive damages (the choose diminished the quantity). In her countersuit, she received one of many three defamation counts and was awarded $2 million in damages. Both of them lately appealed the decision.