To listen to actor Ellen Barkin inform it, Johnny Depp was a controlling, jealous and offended man even again within the Nineteen Nineties, when the 2 dated.
“The place are you going?” Barkin mentioned Depp would ask her. “Who're you going with? What did you do final evening?”
Barkin added: “I had a scratch on my again as soon as that acquired him very, very offended as a result of he insisted it got here from me having intercourse with an individual who wasn't him.”
Barkin recalled her relationship with Depp throughout a beforehand taped deposition that was performed in a Virginia courtroom Thursday by attorneys for Depp's ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Heard's attorneys are attempting to undermine Depp's libel lawsuit in opposition to her. Depp says a 2018 op-ed piece Heard wrote in The Washington Submit unfairly portrayed him as a home abuser and value him a profitable Hollywood profession that included the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise.
Depp has testified he by no means struck Heard and that he was the sufferer of abuse inflicted by her. However Heard's attorneys say these denials lack credibility as a result of he ceaselessly drank and used medication to the purpose of blacking out.
Throughout Barkin's deposition, she testified that Depp was “all the time consuming or smoking a joint” or doing different unlawful medication. She mentioned she dated Depp for about three to 5 months and characterised the connection as extra sexual than romantic.
Barkin co-starred with Depp in “Concern and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Throughout filming, Barkin mentioned Depp threw a wine bottle in her course whereas he was preventing with some buddies in a lodge room. Nevertheless, she mentioned she did not know why he threw the bottle.
Heard's attorneys argue that Depp's profession free-fall was the results of his personal dangerous conduct - not Heard's op-ed. They performed witness testimony that charted the actor's rise and fall from “the largest film star on this planet” to a person who struggled with medication, cash and the power to point out up at film units on time.
Tracey Jacobs, who served because the actor's agent for about 30 years, mentioned Depp was “displaying up late to set constantly on nearly each film” throughout their remaining years working collectively.
“I used to be very trustworthy with him and mentioned, `You have to cease doing this - that is hurting you,”' Jacobs mentioned. “And it did.”
Jacobs mentioned Depp was a rare expertise however his conduct within the years earlier than he fired her in 2016 turned more and more unprofessional, whereas his drug and alcohol use elevated, Jacobs mentioned.
“And it additionally acquired round city,” Jacobs mentioned. “I imply, individuals discuss, it is a small group. And it made individuals reluctant to make use of him.”
Joel Mandel, Depp's former enterprise supervisor, testified in a beforehand recorded deposition that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies had “catapulted him into a completely completely different stage of success.”
“It meant extra staff,” Mandel mentioned. “It meant shopping for further property. … It meant an even bigger life and a dearer one.”
Issues started to vary round 2010, and it “turned clear over time that there have been points with alcohol and medicines,” Mandel mentioned. “And that translated into extra erratic conduct, extra nerve-racking conduct, extra occasions when it was troublesome to have interaction within the sorts of conversations I wanted to do my job.”
At one level, Depp was spending round $100,000 a month for a physician and workers to assist him get sober, Mandel mentioned. At one other, he was spending $300,000 a month on full-time workers, he mentioned. And he mentioned there additionally have been occasions when Depp spent 1000's of dollars a month on pharmaceuticals.
“The spending ranges had grown very, very, very massive and required that stage of extremely excessive earnings to be maintained,” Mandel mentioned. “And when it dropped off, the disconnect turned untenable.”
Mandel mentioned he turned extraordinarily anxious about Depp's funds in 2015, however that Depp met these issues with anger. He mentioned the actor fired him in 2016.
Bruce Witkin, a musician who was buddies with Depp for almost 40 years, testified in a beforehand recorded deposition that Depp might change into jealous in his romantic relationships.
That jealousy was demonstrated with Heard when she could be off filming a film “or doing one thing that he could not be round to see what was entering into,” Witkin mentioned. “I believe he would work himself up.”
Witkin mentioned he as soon as noticed bruises on Heard's arm when he and Depp have been engaged on a documentary about Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. And he noticed Depp with a “fats lip” one time. However Witkin mentioned he by no means noticed Depp or Heard bodily abuse one another.
Witkin mentioned he tried to assist Depp together with his substance abuse and had set him up with a therapist.
“He'd say, `I will be all proper. I will be all proper,”' Witkin mentioned, recalling a dialog. “Nicely, you are not all proper.”
Depp's sister, Christi Dembrowski, was all the time involved together with his well-being, each by way of his substance abuse and customarily, Witkin mentioned.
“Everyone, I believe, deep down inside was, however ... the individuals on the payroll will not actually say a lot. They're going to attempt however they do not wish to lose their job,” Witkin mentioned. “I am not saying all of them fall into the class. However it's a wierd factor round individuals like him. Everyone desires one thing.”
Witkin mentioned his friendship with Depp started to dissolve towards the tip of 2017, when the actor began to drag away.
“He wrote me this bizarre textual content saying I stabbed him within the again and badmouthed him,” Witkin mentioned. “And I am like, `What are you speaking about?' And he would not clarify it. And I just about have not seen him since 2018.”
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