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One other big blow for Amber Heard‘s authorized crew — however is it extra progress up an insurmountable hill?
Johnny Depp‘s bodyguard was the following to testify within the ongoing defamation trial on Thursday, and the best way he tells it, the couple’s relationship was a lot nearer to the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s model.
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Malcolm Connolly labored for Johnny for years, all through your complete relationship with Amber. He described the start of the courtship as many have — “lovey-dovey” — and mentioned Amber was “beautiful” and “charming” firstly. However, he claimed, he observed she modified in some unspecified time in the future early on:
“Amber began to alter. Amber began to get a bit extra feisty, demanding. I may see Amber wished to put on the pants on this relationship, that was fairly apparent.”
He mentioned the long run Aquaman star may “get a bit frosty on the drop of a hat.” However it wasn’t simply her that was altering. He says he observed Johnny shutting down, “getting quieter” the longer they have been collectively.
Chatting with the previous couple’s most personal fights, he claimed he usually heard Amber “screaming.” Whereas he by no means noticed any violence on both of the pair’s half, he says he did witness her throwing objects at him, together with a cigarette lighter and a soda can.
He additionally noticed what may very well be interpreted as proof of violence. Not on Amber, he mentioned — however on Johnny. He recalled:
“It began off with possibly a scratch from time to time, nevertheless it obtained extra. He sustained marks, positively.”
He continued:
“Most of those marks, most of this stuff, could be on the left aspect of his face, scratches on his neck, possibly a fats lip within the nook, possibly a bruising within the eye socket. It’s all impacts. It was getting extra common. Not each week, nevertheless it was positively occurring.”
Even on his honeymoon, Connolly remembered, Johnny was strolling round sporting what might need been a black eye. Depp’s crew confirmed {a photograph} of Johnny, Amber, and their employees during which the Oscar nominee’s face may very well be seen as displaying some “swelling” below the attention.
Connolly was requested for his interpretation of the damage, and he mentioned, eliciting amusing:
“What do I interpret that as? He’s walked right into a door or a door’s walked into him.”
He recalled a pair days into the honeymoon Johnny was “not having fun with” it anymore and would usually sneak off to make use of medicine. Connolly may solely verify seeing him smoking weed, however he suspected he was doing cocaine within the toilet. He famous his boss had a “very excessive tolerance for any substances,” saying at one level:
“I believe Jack Sparrow is extra drunk than Johnny Depp, to be sincere.”
He additionally famous that Johnny’s ingesting had “dropped drastically” in recent times.
Connolly was additionally current for the notorious incident in Australia the place, as he put it, “Johnny misplaced a finger.”
Describing the incident as “chaos,” he recalled his boss was already “nursing one hand” when he arrived on the scene. As he tried to drag Johnny from the scene, he mentioned, an “irate” Amber “seems from someplace and he or she’s screaming, berating him, ‘F**okay off, that’s what you do, it’s all you ever do, you f**okay off along with your guys, you f**king coward!’”
Wow.
On cross, Amber’s crew requested in regards to the claims Johnny had tried to “urinate within the lobby” in entrance of everybody. The affable Connolly laughed:
“I believe I’d have remembered if I’d seen Mr. Depp’s penis.”
The bodyguard admitted that sure, he nonetheless labored for Johnny to today, and that he considers himself a “loyal” worker.
What do YOU consider this testimony, Perezcious paralegals??
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