Actress Ellen Barkin testifies in Amber Heard, Johnny Depp trial

Amber Heard’s crew continued presenting their case within the actress’s defamation trial in opposition to Johnny Depp. Ellen Barkin testified on Thursday about her relationship with Depp within the ’90s, calling the actor “jealous” and “indignant.”

“We simply developed a friendship over time that lasted… perhaps 10 years, rather less,” Barkin stated in a 2019 video deposition performed to the courtroom.

Barkin, 68, and Depp, 58, starred collectively in 1998’s Concern and Loathing in Las Vegas. When requested about their “romantic” relationship, Barkin requested for it to be known as a “sexual” relationship.

“He was drunk quite a lot of the time,” Barkin claimed, including she “was all the time conscious” that Depp drank to extra. She testified to witnessing him use “hallucinogenics, cocaine, marijuana” and that he did medicine “on a regular basis.”

Depp’s substance use is a giant a part of the trial as Heard claims she was usually abused when he was excessive or drunk, changing into “the monster.” The actor testified final month that Heard “grossly embellished” his “substance abuse.”

Barkin testified she “didn’t” discover Depp’s conduct change when he was consuming or doing medicine. When requested if she witnessed him act in a manner that was uncontrolled, Barkin referenced the notorious wine bottle incident.

“Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle throughout the resort room [during the filming of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas],” she stated, later gesturing it was extra of “a toss” than a tough “throw.”

Depp is the one who ended the connection, Barkin confirmed.

“I went to go residence there was a giant goodbye crying, quite a lot of jealous ‘do not do that, do not do this’ and I by no means heard from him once more after that,” she stated.

When requested to elaborate on what she meant by “jealous,” Barkin replied: “He is only a jealous man, controlling. ‘The place are you going, who’re you going with, what did you do final night time?'”

Barkin remembers a time she had a scratch on her again which “bought [Johnny] very, very indignant as a result of he insisted it got here from me having intercourse with an individual that wasn’t him.”

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Heard, her sister and her three pals have testified this week that Depp was very jealous, particularly involving male co-stars. James Franco is a reputation that is been introduced up rather a lot within the trial. Heard and Franco labored collectively on two movies and he or she stated Depp “hated, hated” the actor.

Barkin’s similar video testimony was performed within the U.Okay. libel trial, which Depp misplaced. The actor stated on the stand in 2020 that Barkin held a grudge in opposition to him.

“Ms. Barkin and I had been pals for a variety of years,” Depp instructed the excessive courtroom. “A sexual component started with Ms. Barkin which lasted for months on and off often because she was making the movie I used to be making on the time, Concern and Loathing in Las Vegas and I suppose her wishes have been… She wished greater than a relationship, she wished a correct relationship with me and I didn’t need that.”

Depp continued, “I did not really feel the identical about her as she did me and I suppose from that second on she grew to become very, very indignant and since then I’ve not spoken to Ms. Barkin.”

Depp laughed as he added, “Nor has Ms. Barkin spoken to me.”

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