Johnny Depp accuses Amber Heard of hitting him with ‘haymaker’ punch during quarrel
- The actor said the fight came after he had learned that his former business managers had absconded with US$650 million
- Depp wrapped up testimony in his libel suit against a British tabloid that accused him of domestic abuse
Depp said the fight came after Heard’s 30th birthday party, and hours after he had learned that his former business managers had absconded with hundreds of millions of dollars.
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.” He strongly denies abusing Heard.
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 the divorce was finalised in 2017.
Depp said the couple separated after an argument that followed Heard’s 30th birthday party in April 2016. The actor said that just before the party he had attended a meeting and been told that his former business managers had “stolen my money.”
Asked how much was stolen, Depp said “this is a ludicrous amount to have to state, it’s quite embarrassing – apparently I had made US$650 million,” much of it through his involvement with the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
