Depp severed finger during three-day row with ex-wife, UK court told

LONDON, July 10 (Online): Hollywood star Johnny Depp wrote on a wall with blood from his severed finger tip during a long and violent confrontation with his ex-wife Amber Heard five years ago, London’s High Court heard on Thursday at his libel case against a British tabloid. Depp told the court he suffered “some species of nervous breakdown” during a row with actress Heard, but denied he had violently attacked her and accused her of cutting his finger by throwing a bottle at him. The revelations came on the third day of Depp’s appearance in the witness stand as he sues the publisher of Britain’s Sun tabloid, News Group Newspapers, over an article in which it labelled the actor a “wife beater”. The court heard that Depp was in Australia in March 2015 to film “Pirates of the Caribbean” a month after the couple married. Heard had flown to join him from London, where she had been making a movie with co-star Billy Bob Thornton. The Sun’s lawyer Sasha Wass said Heard suffered a three-day ordeal at Depp’s hands in the rented house where the actor was staying after she became angry at him because he had been drinking to … Continue reading Depp severed finger during three-day row with ex-wife, UK court told