In a video from the trial streamed on-line, Johnny is seen recounting how he injured his hand. He mentioned, “As I told before, she threw a bottle of vodka at me and smashed it and cut my finger off, the tip of my finger, a good chunk. I miss it.” At this, the actor paused and chuckled as a number of individuals in the courtroom additionally laughed.
This isn’t the first time Johnny has joked about the incident throughout this trial. Three weeks in the past, whereas he was first recounting the incident that led to his harm, he jokingly referred to the severed half as ‘Little- Richard’. Talking about the way it was Amber and never him who was at fault in the fight, he had mentioned, “I can’t take responsibility for what I now call little Richard, my chopped finger.”
Last month, Johnny had testified that Amber had change into indignant when he started consuming throughout their journey to Australia the place he was filming a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. She threw a bottle at him, severing his finger. “Blood was pouring out,” he mentioned. “I think I went into some sort of … I don’t know what a nervous breakdown feels like, but that’s probably the closest that I’ve ever been. Nothing made sense,” he had mentioned.
Johnny Depp has sued Amber Heard for $50 million, saying she defamed him when she claimed she was a sufferer of home abuse in a 2018 Washington Post article she wrote. Johnny has alleged that it was Amber who was the abusive one in their marriage. She has countersued for $100 million, arguing that he smeared her title by calling her a liar. The trial has been underway since April and is about to conclude on May 27.