Johnny Depp called it quits with Amber Heard after finding faeces in bed, court hears
- Depp said he realised that the marriage could not be saved after a cleaner found faeces in the couple’s bed at their penthouse after a party in 2016
- The actor was wrapping up his evidence in his libel case against a British tabloid that accused him of physically abusing Heard
Johnny Depp described the breakdown of his marriage to Amber Heard on Friday in a London court, saying the last straw came when faeces were found in the couple’s bed after a party.
Depp was wrapping up his evidence in his libel case against a British tabloid newspaper that accused him of physically abusing Heard. The Hollywood star is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that called him a “wife-beater.”
In three and a half days in the witness box at the High Court, Depp has described a volatile relationship that descended into screaming matches which sometimes turned physical. But he has strongly denied hitting Heard and accused her of compiling a dossier of fake claims against him as an “insurance policy.”
Depp, 57, and Heard, 34, met on the set of the 2011 comedy The Rum Diary and married in Los Angeles in February 2015. Heard, a model and actress, filed for divorce the following year and obtained a restraining order against Depp on the grounds of domestic abuse. The divorce was finalised in 2017.
Depp said one of the triggering incidents for the couple’s separation came when a cleaner found faeces in a bed at their Los Angeles penthouse the morning after Heard’s 30th birthday party in April 2016.
Heard blamed the couple’s Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, but Depp was convinced a person had done it.