Former Johnny Depp Lawyer Says He’s ‘Seen Evidence’ of Amber Heard ‘Abuse Hoax’

thewrap.com:

st and the 27th, when suddenly there were bruises.”Waldman began representing Depp after he and Heard divorced. He admitted to making several statements published in the Daily Mail in July 2020, including; “Amber Heard and her friends in the media used fake sexual violence allegations as both the sword and the shield”; “sexual violence hoax ‘facts'”; and “Quite simply this was an ambush a hoax.”By that, he meant calls to police intended to set up Depp – “but the first attempt didn’t do the trick,” and “so, Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their story straight under the direction of a lawyer and a publicist and then placed a second call to 911.”The day gave way to several witnesses, almost all with something in common: A “former” in their relationship to Johnny Depp.

His former agent, a former friend, a former psychiatrist, a former sexual partner – all fell under the common theme of estrangement from the “Pirates” star, who multiple witnesses say severed a wide swath of his personal and professional relationships around the time of his 2016 divorce.One of those formers from the old days: Ellen Barkin, who dated Depp in the mid-1990s and was a late witness Thursday.Also via videotaped deposition, Barkin was asked if she’d ever seen Depp “lose control”; she recalled only one incident during the “Fear and Loathing” shoot when, during a fight with a friend or possibly an assistant, Depp threw a bottle across the Las Vegas hotel room. “More like he tossed it,” she said, noting that it flew toward the group she was standing in, but didn’t hit anyone.Barkin testified that her relationship with Depp was a brief, bi-coastal, off-and-on cat-and-mouse game that started out as friends and.