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Johnny Depp's lawsuit against The Sun

2020-07-11T17:24:23.900Z


The star of "Pirates of the Caribbean" sinks into the gloomy in a lawsuit which makes the happiness of the tabloid press of the whole world. Decrypta


"I passed, if you forgive the analogy, from Cinderella to Quasimodo in 0.6 seconds and I was speechless". These words, held this Friday by Johnny Depp at the bar of the High Court of Justice in London, summarize quite well what is at stake in this defamation lawsuit which he himself brought against the tabloid The Sun: his own forfeiture .

Defending himself as a "female drummer" - what the newspaper had written in 2018 following his divorce from actress Amber Heard - the emblematic star of "Pirates of the Caribbean" transformed his trial, with the help of the opposing camp, in a rather surreal unpacking, where the linen - very dirty - of the two ex-spouses is washed publicly.

It must be said that the former teenage star of "21 Jump Street", now 57 years old, is pushed to his limits by Sasha Wass, the lawyer for the press group News Group Newspapers (NGN), who owns the the most sulphurous daily across the Channel. A fierce lawyer who never spares the hero of "Las Vegas Parano" whose career has been somewhat slow since 2018, and "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald".

The defense of the Sun is based on a total of 14 allegations of violence committed by the Hollywood actor between 2013 and 2016 against his partner in "Rhum Express". Violence allegedly committed in places such as his private island in the Bahamas, a rented house in Australia or the marital home. A documented charge of photos of the swollen face of Amber Heard, cocaine rails, or Johnny Depp sleeping fully clothed on the floor ... Johnny Depp, who firmly denies all of these accusations of violence, accuses his ex-wife of being a "calculator" and a "sociopath".

"I love you" in letters of… blood!

But unpacking goes much further. We were thus able to discover that following a violent clash in 2015 between the two stars, Johnny Depp had written, with his own blood, "I love you" on a mirror of their suite in Australia ... A stay where Amber Heard literally claims to have been kidnapped for three days.

The lawyer for the Sun then argued that during another fight in their LA penthouse in December 2015, Johnny Depp would have entered into an “uncontrollable rage”, would have ransacked the wardrobe of the thirty-something, before launching her a carafe in the face, slap her, pull her by the hair and finally give her a "coup de boule", causing her two black eyes.

In her defense, the interpreter of "Jack Sparrow" replied that the actress was in reality the aggressor, and that he had only tried to retain her "to prevent her from getting agitated and hitting me". He admitted that he may have kicked her, but only by accident, but denied having caused her injuries. And for good reason: the latter has huge memory lapses which he attributes to his excessive use of various drugs and alcohol…

"He shot himself in the foot"

For a connoisseur of the Depp-Paradis family, the strategy of chasing the Sun is nothing but a huge media wreck. "He shot himself in the foot while going to trial, he could not negotiate with the newspaper and now his brand image is even more degraded," analyzes this old stranger from the press.

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“Since meeting Amber Heard, his career has been a slow descent into Hell. He didn't listen to many people 20 years ago, and even less today. He's angry with a lot of people, ”says another follower of glitter magazines.

As a result, Johnny Depp, who lives alone in a London hotel room during the trial, is coasting during the hearings. The vision that the general public may have had of the ex-husband of Vanessa Paradis will be forever changed by the content of the discussions. The person described in this trial is so far from his somewhat crazy but endearing character from his films for Disney…

The portrait that emerges from this extraordinary trial is that of a drug addict stuck in an endless depression for years. A fate for Marlon Brando, his idol. Tragic irony. He thus assured at the hearing that he had taken "all existing drugs" before his 14 years. His addiction having started with the anxiolytics they stole from his mother at 11 years old.

Excrement in the marital bed

Before a dumbfounded court, he also claimed, in just three days of hearing, to have given cannabis to his daughter Lily-Rose at the age of 13 - a decision by "responsible parent" so that she would make it a "secure experience", and spent one of the couple's dogs several times in the microwave ...

Johnny Depp concluded his last testimony with an anecdote which did not fail to make the front page across the Channel. The complainant thus explained that the couple's tumultuous marriage was finally broken after the discovery of feces in the marital bed following a party. "I thought it was a curiously appropriate end to our relationship," he said wryly. For the record, Amber Heard says that these are dog excrement, and Johnny Depp hammers that they come from a human ... and maybe even from the actress herself. The bottom has therefore been reached.

Will Vanessa Paradis' videoconference hearing next week be the lifeline of Lily-Rose's father and Jack John? Nothing is less sure.

VIDEO. According to British media, Johnny Depp would have left Amber Heard because she would have "defecated in bed"

Source: leparis

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