To hear actor Ellen Barkin inform it, Johnny Depp was a controlling, jealous and indignant man even again within the Nineties, when the 2 dated. “Where are you going?” Barkin mentioned Depp would ask her. “Who are you going with? What did you do last night?”
Barkin added: “I had a scratch on my back once that got him very, very angry because he insisted it came from me having sex with a person who wasn’t him.”
Barkin recalled her relationship with Depp throughout a beforehand taped deposition that was performed in a Virginia courtroom Thursday by attorneys for Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Heard’s attorneys are attempting to undermine Depp’s libel lawsuit towards her. Depp says a 2018 op-ed piece Heard wrote in The Washington Post unfairly portrayed him as a home abuser and value him a profitable Hollywood profession that included the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.
Depp has testified he by no means struck Heard and that he was the sufferer of abuse inflicted by her. But Heard’s attorneys say these denials lack credibility as a result of he steadily drank and used medication to the purpose of blacking out.
During Barkin’s deposition, she testified that Depp was “always drinking or smoking a joint” or doing different unlawful medication. She mentioned she dated Depp for about three to 5 months and characterised the connection as extra sexual than romantic.
Barkin co-starred with Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. During filming, Barkin mentioned Depp threw a wine bottle in her course whereas he was combating with some buddies in a lodge room. However, she mentioned she didn’t know why he threw the bottle.
Heard’s attorneys argue that Depp’s profession free-fall was the results of his personal dangerous habits — not Heard’s op-ed. They performed witness testimony that charted the actor’s rise and fall from “the biggest movie star in the world” to a person who struggled with medication, cash and the power to point out up at film units on time.
Tracey Jacobs, who served because the actor’s agent for about 30 years, mentioned Depp was “showing up late to set consistently on virtually every movie” throughout their last years working collectively. “I was very honest with him and said, ‘You’ve got to stop doing this – this is hurting you,’” Jacobs mentioned. “And it did.”
Jacobs mentioned Depp was a rare expertise however his habits within the years earlier than he fired her in 2016 grew to become more and more unprofessional, whereas his drug and alcohol use elevated, Jacobs mentioned. “And it also got around town,” Jacobs mentioned. “I mean, people talk, it’s a small community. And it made people reluctant to use him.”
Joel Mandel, Depp’s former enterprise supervisor, testified in a beforehand recorded deposition that the Pirates of the Caribbean movies had “catapulted him into an entirely different level of success.”
“It meant more employees,” Mandel mentioned. “It meant buying additional property. … It meant a bigger life and a more expensive one.”
Things started to alter round 2010, and it “became clear over time that there were issues with alcohol and drugs,” Mandel mentioned. “And that translated into more erratic behavior, more stressful behavior, more times when it was difficult to engage in the kinds of conversations I needed to do my job.”
At one level, Depp was spending round $100,000 a month for a physician and employees to assist him get sober, Mandel mentioned. At one other, he was spending $300,000 a month on full-time employees, he mentioned. And he mentioned there additionally have been occasions when Depp spent 1000’s of {dollars} a month on prescribed drugs.
“The spending levels had grown very, very, very large and required that level of incredibly high income to be maintained,” Mandel mentioned. “And when it dropped off, the disconnect became untenable.”
Mandel mentioned he grew to become extraordinarily nervous about Depp’s funds in 2015, however that Depp met these considerations with anger. He mentioned the actor fired him in 2016.
Bruce Witkin, a musician who was buddies with Depp for almost 40 years, testified in a beforehand recorded deposition that Depp might change into jealous in his romantic relationships.
That jealousy was demonstrated with Heard when she can be off filming a film “or doing something that he couldn’t be around to see what was going in,” Witkin mentioned. “I think he would work himself up.”
Witkin mentioned he as soon as noticed bruises on Heard’s arm when he and Depp have been engaged on a documentary about Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. And he noticed Depp with a “fat lip” one time. But Witkin mentioned he by no means noticed Depp or Heard bodily abuse one another.
Witkin mentioned he tried to assist Depp along with his substance abuse and had set him up with a therapist.
“He’d say, ‘I’ll be all right. I’ll be all right,’” Witkin mentioned, recalling a dialog. “Well, you’re not all right.”
Depp’s sister, Christi Dembrowski, was all the time involved along with his well-being, each when it comes to his substance abuse and customarily, Witkin mentioned.
“Everybody, I think, deep down inside was, but … the people on the payroll won’t really say much. They’ll try but they don’t want to lose their job,” Witkin mentioned. “I’m not saying they all fall into the category. But it’s a strange thing around people like him. Everybody wants something.”
Witkin mentioned his friendship with Depp started to dissolve towards the tip of 2017, when the actor began to tug away.
“He wrote me this weird text saying I stabbed him in the back and badmouthed him,” Witkin mentioned. “And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And he wouldn’t explain it. And I pretty much haven’t seen him since 2018.”
