A week before the end of the trial of the century that Johnny Depp faces against his ex-wife Amber Heard and after the interrogation of Mera’s interpreter ended last Tuesday, May 17, during the process of discharging evidence and testimony, they began with the pre-recorded statements of people who were witnesses in previous trials.
Among the testimonies seen last Thursday, May 19, was the recording of November 22, 2019, in which the 68-year-old actress Ellen Barkin testified that during the months she had a love relationship with Depp, in addition to being drunk most of the time, he was very jealous and quite controlling.
Barkin and Depp’s friendship began in the 1990s, but after the actress moved to New York in 1994, their friendship became more intimate. In 1998, both actors starred in the film Panic and Madness in Las Vegasso when questioned about the behavior of the protagonist of Scissorhands during their relationship, she replied:
He is a jealous, controlling man, one of those who say things like ‘Where are you going?’ ‘Who are you going with?’ ‘What did you do last night?’. He once got really mad because he had a scratch on his back and insisted it was because I had sex with a person who wasn’t him.
During her testimony, when asked if Depp ever acted violently or out of control with her, the actress Drop Dead Gorgeous He said that while they were recording the movie panic and madnessthe actor threw a bottle of wine during an argument with his friends or with his assistant.
Mr. Depp threw a bottle of wine across the hotel room. I don’t know why he threw the bottle. There was a fight going on between Johnny Depp and his friends in the room or with his assistant. I don’t remember if the bottle was full, but the bottle didn’t hit anyone.
– Ellen Barkin
It is worth mentioning that the testimony that the actor threw a bottle in Las Vegas of the 68-year-old actress was used in the previous defamation trial that Depp faced against The Sun in the UK, for the article that called him a “wife beater.”
The final verdict is very close and although there are countless people who support and ask for justice for Johnny, the difficult decision is up to the jury, who, to be honest, do not have it easy at all.