Johnny Depp asked Amber Heard to cut him with a knife and take his blood. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor is suing his ex-wife for defamation relating to a 2018 essay she wrote for The Washington Post in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse”. Although the article doesn’t mention him by name, Depp has argued it refers to allegations she made after they split in 2016.
On Monday, the 58-year-old actor told the court he repeatedly told her to cut him during a meeting in July 2016, two months after she filed for divorce, because his blood”was the only thing she didn’t have.
The court had previously heard the recording of the incident, and asked about the meeting by one of his lawyers, Depp admitted it went “not particularly well
He said: “I was quite confused. I’d been summoned to her at that point since all the news was about the fact I’d allegedly done all these horrible things.
“I met with her in the hope she would retract her lies that the world was now fed, had been fed. In no way was she ready to do that. I couldn’t understand why I was there.
“Everything had been taken from me. My children couldn’t escape the fact all this had gone down.”
Recounting their conversation, Depp added: “That’s what you want to do. You’ve taken everything, you want my blood take, it.
“She said: ‘no no’. (I said:) ‘If you’re not going to take it, that’s all I’ve got left’. If she wasn’t going to do it, I would have done it. I was at the end. I was broken.
“The only answer was here, cut me, that’s all I have left to give you. There was no threat to Miss Heard, it was about spilling my blood, it was the only thing she didn’t have. I was broken and really at the end.”
Source: People
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