Johnny Depp scrawled “I love you” on a mirror with blood from a finger he severed during a “three-day ordeal of assaults” on new wife Amber Heard, his libel trial was told Thursday.
Heard was left “scared for her life” and barricading herself in a room after Depp tore off her nightgown, shoved her onto a ping-pong table and choked her against a fridge, she claimed in a statement read in court.
Calling it a “three-day ordeal of physical assault,” Heard’s statement claims she was left with injuries “including a broken lip, swollen nose, and cuts all over her body” just a month after their wedding, the Daily Mail said.
The alleged attack in Australia in 2015 came when Depp was depressed about filming his latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie — and while he was “completely off [his] head on drink and drugs,” lawyer Sasha Wass told the court, according to the Mail.
Depp “vehemently” denied the assault claims — calling it “pedestrian fiction” — but admitted they had a furious row over his then-new wife’s refusal to sign a postnuptial agreement.
However, Wass insisted it had “nothing to do with” the postnup — and Depp admitted it was “possible” he had also accused Heard of cheating on him.
He “smashed bottle after bottle” while accusing his then-new wife of having an affair with Billy Bob Thornton, the court reportedly heard.
He also spat in her face and threatened to “f–k her corpse,” mirroring language in texts he had sent to fellow actor Paul Bettany, Wass claimed.
Depp insisted Heard was the only violent one, hurling a vodka bottle at him that “severed my finger and crushed my bones.”
The court was shown photos of how the actor scrawled messages on mirrors in the house they were staying in — with Depp admitting some were in blood from his severed finger, the Mail said.
“Look what you made me do!” he reportedly snapped at Heard as he wrote the final ‘u’ in “I love you,” the court was told.
Graffiti in paint also referred to his jealousy over his wife working on a film with Thornton, writing, “Starring Billy Bob, Easy Amber,” the court heard.
Another message saying “Call Carly Simon, she said it better, babe” — referring to the singer’s hit, “You’re So Vain” — was written by Heard after he had gone to a hospital, Depp said.
Depp told the court he “knew exactly what I was doing” — and conceded he felt “considerable pain,” the Mail said.
The rented house was “left in “carnage” with $75,000 damage, including a smashed TV and windows, Wass told the court.
Depp said the injury “began what I feel was probably some species of a breakdown, a nervous breakdown,” he admitted. “I couldn’t live, didn’t want to live.”
He agreed that they had a violent row, saying it was she refused to sign a postnuptial agreement — and said it marked the “end end” of their marriage.
“I was convinced it was never going to get any better, only worse, and worse was death,” he said, according to the report.
“So this [graffiti] is a message to her, ‘Good luck and be careful at the top’, in reference to her ambition to be a big star,” he reportedly said.
However, Depp called the assault claims “fabricated and vicious.”
“I vehemently deny it, and would go so far as to say it is pedestrian fiction,” he told the court.
Depp is giving evidence for the third day in his libel case against The Sun newspaper over an April 2018 article that said he was a “wife-beater,” which he denies — and instead says his “sociopathic” ex-wife was the violent one in their marriage.
The Sun’s defense relies on Heard’s allegations of 14 incidents of violence by Depp between 2013 and 2016.
With Post wires