Judge in Johnny Depp, Amber Heard case rules on ‘poo in bed’ claims

As Johnny Depp lost his libel case against The Sun, the judgment also spent 600 words analysing claims ex-wife Amber Heard once defecated in their bed.

This may finally flush away that “Amber Turd” nickname.

The British judge who ruled that Johnny Depp should not win his libel case against The Sun closely analysed claims that his ex-wife Amber Heard defecated in their marital bed, instead ruling that the offending poo probably came from one of her pet dogs.

In Monday’s judgment, High Court Judge Andrew Nicol found the tabloid’s reference to Depp in a 2018 article as a “wife-beater” was “substantially true”. He also spent almost 600 words analysing the headline-grabbing defecation incident that led to Depp giving Heard the nickname.

Under a section headlined, “Faeces on the bed,” the judge said that the Pirates Of The Caribbean star insisted the supposed poo attack was relevant because it “led him to conclude that his marriage to Ms Heard could not continue” and sparked one of their many fights.

The libel case involving Johnny Depp and ex Amber Heard is over. Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty

“For what it is worth, I consider that it is unlikely that Ms Heard or one of her friends was responsible,” the judge concluded of the poo, photos of which were shown in court as evidence.

Nicol noted that it happened when Depp was away. “It was Ms Heard who was likely to suffer from the faeces on the bed, not him,” he wrote.

“It was, therefore, a singularly ineffective means for Ms Heard or one of her friends to ‘get back’ at Mr Depp.”

Amber Heard (centre) outside court in July. Picture: Picture: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty

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He also noted evidence that one of Heard’s dogs, Boo, “had an incomplete mastery of her bowels after she had accidentally consumed some marijuana”.

Heard, 34, has long denied being the mystery pooer.

“This accusation is completely untrue and has been designed purely to humiliate Ms Heard,” a spokesperson for Heard previously told The Post.

Depp had sued The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over the 2018 article, with the three-week trial unearthing intimate details of the couple’s tumultuous relationship, including wild arguments and Depp’s battles with drugs and alcohol, and that he had smeared “I love you” on a mirror in blood while the couple were in Australia.

In reading his judgment, Judge Nicol said: “The claimant has not succeeded in his action for libel.

“Although he has proved the necessary elements of his cause of action in libel, the defendants have shown that what they published in the meaning which I have held the words to bear was substantially true.”

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission