Johnny Depp accused of attacking Amber Heard on private island after he 'flipped' during drugs detox session

Film star Johnny Depp is accused of attacking Amber Heard on his private Caribbean island when he “flipped” during a drugs detox session, the High Court heard.

The actor and his then-fiancée went into isolation on his island in the Bahamas in August 2014 to wean him off prescription drugs, with just a doctor and a nurse in contact by walkie-talkie on the other side of the resort.

Heard claims she was “pushed” by Depp in a late-night row during their stay, and ordered him to leave the house before texting the nurse for help.

“Issue has arisen again. He took the meds about 30 mins ago (which seems to be the trend) as I reckon they haven’t kicked in yet”, she wrote.

“All the sudden he’s flipping again. Just starting screaming – he was so mad he pushed me and I asked him to get out.”

Heard added: “Don’t know what else to do, sorry to keep at you guys.”

Depp said Heard was in control of his medication and agreed that she was “acting like a nurse” during their stay. But in his witness statement to the High Court he suggests her behaviour during the trip had been “one of the cruellest things she has ever done”.

“There were incidents where for example the time allotted for me to take my medication by the nurse or Heard, if it were 4pm on the dot and it was 3.15pm when I began to get the heebie-jeebies, I told Ms Heard I needed the meds as it was starting to come on, the shakes, the stomach cramps”, he said.

“Everything started to come on. I told her it was time for the meds and she said no, it was 4pm.”

Depp said he had at times been “at the lowest point in my life on the floor sobbing like a child, and still not received my meds”.

Faced with the accusation that he had been violent, Depp replied: “I did not push Ms Heard or attack her in any way, as I certainly was not in any condition to do so.”

Depp claims Heard concocted a “hoax” during their relationship, building a “dossier” of false allegations against him as an “insurance policy”.

The libel trial between Depp and The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers centres on 14 allegations of violence by Depp towards Heard during their volatile marriage.

She and the newspaper insist the label “wife-beater”, used in a 2018 article, is true, while Depp contests that he was never violent to her and she was the abuser in their relationship.

The civil trial continues.

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