Johnny Depp told an irate Amber Heard that he wanted a divorce during a heated conference call with his personal assistant about feces found in their bed, a court heard during his explosive libel trial Wednesday.
Kevin Murphy, who worked for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star between 2008 and 2016, told London’s High Court that he got a call in May 2016 from the couple on speakerphone that quickly turned tense, according to the Daily Mail.
During the call, Depp asked Murphy to repeat information that he’d previously told the actor about the offending pile.
“I also repeated that Ms. Heard had admitted that she was responsible for what she referred to as a ‘harmless prank.’ Ms. Heard yelled and called me ‘a f—king liar’ multiple times,” Murphy said, according to the outlet. “I asked her to stop yelling and swearing at me and overheard Mr. Depp in the background saying, ‘Please don’t speak to him that way. Be respectful.’”
He added, “I then heard Mr. Depp say he couldn’t do this anymore and wanted a divorce. When Ms. Heard would not stop yelling, I hung up the telephone. I received multiple additional telephone calls from the same number in the minutes that followed, but I did not answer them.”
Murphy found himself stuck in the middle of the couple’s volatile relationship after Heard allegedly pooped in their bed as a “prank” while celebrating her 30th birthday — prompting Depp to call her Amber Turd.
During the phone call, Depp also said he wanted to DNA test the poop to determine its origin, claiming the “Aquaman” actress had “left a whopper poo on my bed” that was discovered by the couple’s housekeeper.
“I then relayed to Ms. Heard, again, that [housekeeper Hilda] Vargas had discovered feces on top of the bedsheet in Mr. Depp’s and Ms. Heard’s bed,” Murphy said.
Depp is suing The Sun over a 2018 article that called him a “wife-beater,” which he has denied — accusing his “sociopathic” ex-wife of all the violence in their marriage.