To listen to actor Ellen Barkin inform it, Johnny Depp was a controlling, jealous and indignant 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 night time?”
Barkin added: “I had a scratch on my again as soon as that bought him very, very indignant as a result of he insisted it got here from me having intercourse with an individual who wasn’t him.”
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Barkin recalled her relationship with Depp throughout a beforehand taped deposition that was performed in a Virginia courtroom Thursday by legal professionals 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 price 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 medicine to the purpose of blacking out.
Throughout Barkin’s deposition, she testified that Depp was “all the time ingesting or smoking a joint” or doing different unlawful medicine. 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 path whereas he was combating with some associates in a resort room. Nevertheless, she mentioned she didn’t know why he threw the bottle.
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Heard’s attorneys argue that Depp’s profession free-fall was the results of his personal unhealthy behaviour — 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 medicine, cash and the flexibility to indicate up at film units on time.
Tracey Jacobs, who served because the actor’s agent for about 30 years, mentioned Depp was “exhibiting up late to set persistently on just about each film” throughout their last years working collectively.
“I used to be very trustworthy with him and mentioned, ‘You’ve bought to cease doing this — that is hurting you,’” Jacobs mentioned. “And it did.”
Jacobs mentioned Depp was a rare expertise however his behaviour 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 bought round city,” Jacobs mentioned. “I imply, individuals discuss, it’s a small neighborhood. 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 wholly completely different stage of success.”
“It meant extra workers,” Mandel mentioned. “It meant shopping for extra property… It meant an even bigger life and a dearer one.”
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Issues started to alter 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 behaviour, extra nerve-racking behaviour, extra occasions when it was troublesome to interact 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 prescribed drugs.
“The spending ranges had grown very, very, very giant 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 fearful 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 associates with Depp for practically 40 years, testified in a beforehand recorded deposition that Depp might turn out to be jealous in his romantic relationships.
That jealousy was demonstrated with Heard when she can be off filming a film “or doing one thing that he couldn’t be round to see what was stepping into,” Witkin mentioned. “I believe he would work himself up.”
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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 along with his substance abuse and had set him up with a therapist.
“He’d say, ‘I’ll be all proper. I’ll be all proper,’” Witkin mentioned, recalling a dialog. “Effectively, you’re not all proper.”
Depp’s sister, Christi Dembrowski, was all the time involved along with his well-being, each when it comes to his substance abuse and usually, Witkin mentioned.
“Everyone, I believe, deep down inside was, however… the individuals on the payroll received’t actually say a lot. They’ll strive however they don’t need to lose their job,” Witkin mentioned. “I’m not saying all of them fall into the class. Nevertheless it’s a wierd factor round individuals like him. Everyone needs one thing.”
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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’m like, ‘What are you speaking about?’ And he wouldn’t clarify it. And I just about haven’t seen him since 2018.”
The trial is ongoing.
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