Johnny Depp Again Denies Amber Heard’s ‘Insane’ Allegations of Assault and Sexual Violence

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJohnny Depp again denied on Wednesday that he had been violent toward his ex-wife, Amber Heard, calling her testimony in the ongoing defamation case “insane” and “horrible.”Depp’s lawyers called him to the stand to respond to a variety of matters that had come up over the six-week trial, as they continued to present their rebuttal witnesses.

Depp first testified over the course of four days in April. Closing arguments are scheduled for Friday.Depp is suing Heard for alluding to her domestic violence allegations against him in an op-ed in 2018, while Heard is countersuing him over statements his lawyer made accusing her of perpetrating an “abuse hoax.” Each has accused the other of damaging their careers. “It’s insane to hear heinous accusations of violence — sexual violence — that she’s attributed to me,” Depp testified. “Horrible, ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unimaginably brutal, cruel, and all false.

All false… No human being is perfect — certainly not — none of us. But I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse.”Heard gave detailed and often emotional testimony earlier this month, in which she accused Depp of violence on numerous occasions.

In one instance, she alleges that Depp penetrated her with a liquor bottle during a drug-fueled fight in Australia. She also testified that Depp had sexually assaulted her on other occasions, choked her, head-butted her, yanked out her hair and slapped her in the face.