Johnny Depp slammed by famous ex Ellen Barkin in court

Actress Ellen Barkin painted a damning picture of her brief, volatile relationship with a “controlling” Johnny Depp in court today.

A prerecorded deposition by actor Ellen Barkin from November 2019 was played for jurors today in Johnny Depp’s ongoing defamation trial against Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp and Barkin became friends in 1990 and the relationship turned sexual in 1994 for about three to six months.

She said of the shift in their relationship,“The friendship went from purely platonic to a romantic one.”

Barkin said Depp was always drinking or smoking a joint. He also took hallucinogens and cocaine.

The actor said Depp referred to his assistant at the time as “the pig.”

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Actress Ellen Barkin appears on a monitor as a recorded testimony from 2019 is played in court. Picture: POOL / AFP

Barkin, 68, did not mince her words in her prerecorded deposition played, calling Depp “controlling” and “jealous.”

Depp, 58, broke up with her when she left him to make a two-day visit to Los Angeles, she said.

“He didn’t want me to go,” Barkin testified in the 11-minute recording. “I never heard from him again after that.”

The lawyer asked Barkin what he had said to her that showed possessiveness.

“He’s just a jealous man, controlling,” she said. “’Where are you going? Who are you going with? What did you do last night?’ I had a scratch on my back once that got him very angry, very angry, because he insisted it came from me having sex with a person who wasn’t him.”

Johnny Depp and Ellen Barkin in 1994. Picture: Barry King/WireImage/Getty Images

Depp and Barkin appeared together in the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

“Did there come a time Mr. Depp acted in a way that was out of control with you?” Heard’s lawyer asked.

“Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle across the hotel room in Las Vegas when we were shooting,” she said. “A fight was going on … between Johnny Depp and his friend in the room, the assistant. Honestly I don’t remember.”

He hurled the bottle in her direction and it hit a wall, she said.

Depp may have had ‘bipolar,’ his psychiatrist testifies

Depp re-eenters the courtroom after a break today. Picture: AFP

Dr. Alan Blaustein had 18 sessions with Johnny Depp beginning in October 2014, according to a prerecorded deposition played in court Thursday.

“Do you recall having a conversation about whether Mr. Depp had bipolar?” Amber Heard’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn asked.

“There was some question about bipolar disorder diagnosis, but I can’t remember any specifics about that discussion,” he replied.

He said Depp had patience, anxiety and anger issues. He described Depp’s relationship with Heard as “chaotic” and “high intensity.”

Blaustein read from his notes and said that Depp recalled his relationship with Heard and Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his children, as characterised by “rage and chaos.”

Depp allegedly reported arguments with Paradis regarding “visitation or access to the children.”

Depp called Heard’s lawyer a ‘bitch’

Amber Heard (right) speaks to a member of her legal team today. Picture:

In a prerecorded deposition, Heard’s lawyer, who was negotiating her postnuptial agreement with Johnny Depp in 2015, testified that she got a disturbing call from the Black Mass actor.

“My recollection was that he was very mean, that he called me names, and that he fired me on behalf of Amber,” Michele Mulrooney said of the March 2015 conversation. “He called me a bitch.”

Depp testified that he and Heard had a blowout fight in Australia that left him missing a piece of his finger over a postnuptial agreement he said his then-wife didn’t want to sign.

Heard allegedly told him that Mulrooney, who Depp’s team hired, had been rude to her, so he called the lawyer up and fired her.

Mulrooney said Depp sounded drunk on the phone, and she ended the call after a few minutes.

“He was slurring his words and his speech pattern was similar to my children’s speech pattern when they were young,” Mulrooney testified. “I was just extremely rattled by the call.”

Heard claimed that the Australia argument erupted after Depp accused her of an affair, then allegedly sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Depp has denied the allegation.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission.