Johnny Depp, Amber Heard court case: Depp ‘snorted cocaine off tampon applicator’

Amber Heard made some eyebrow-raising claims in court today about Johnny Depp’s alleged drug use behind closed doors.

Amber Heard testified in court today that her sister taught Johnny Depp how to snort cocaine with a tampon applicator.

Heard was responding to a photo presented in court by Depp’s lawyers that showed four lines of cocaine next to an applicator on a table.

“When you snort cocaine typically it goes into your nose and then it doesn’t stay on the table,” Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez said. “There’s residue from that cocaine when your lips and hose touch the table, right?”

“Well,” Heard answered, “the tampon applicator next to the driver’s license that you see is a device that I believe my sister had taught him to use in order to put the cocaine in.”

A photo of Depp passed out shown in court.

The trial is now in its final days. Picture: AFP

Heard was also questioned about photos she took of Depp passed out on several occasions -- which she later sent to a friend, describing her ex as “opioid Johnny.”

The compromising photos include one of Depp passed out with ice cream smeared on him, claiming she was only seeking to help him realize he was addicted.

Asked if she had photos of Depp snorting cocaine, Heard replied that “I don’t have a picture of him mid-snort.”

- Elizabeth Rosner and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, NY Post

Heard: Depp was ‘obsessed with poop’

Earlier, the jury in the ongoing court case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was shown photos of Heard’s face after the Pirates of the Caribbean star allegedly threw a phone at her.

Photos were additionally shown of wine bottles, spilt drinks and chaotic rooms which Heard said were all a result of Depp’s erratic behaviour.

Heard said another sign of Depp’s strange actions was that he became fixated on faeces after she says their dog defecated on her bed, blaming her for the incident. “He was obsessed with dog poop,” she said.

The case between the two actors, which is being heard at Fairfax County Court House in Virginia near Washington DC, reconvened today after a week long hiatus. It is due to conclude later this week.

Heard is being sued by Depp for $US50million ($A67m) for implying he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Although she did not name him, he claims her allegations are false and cost him lucrative movie roles.

Ms Heard has countersued, asking for $US100 million ($A134m) and claiming she suffered “rampant physical violence and abuse” at his hands.

Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard at the Fairfax County Circuit Court. (Photo by Steve Helber / POOL / AFP)

On Monday, Heard took to the stand to lay out in detail some her allegations of physical violence against Depp.

“This is my face after Johnny threw a phone at it,” she said as photos were shown to the jurors.

The images showed Heard’s face from various angles with a bruise on her right cheek.

She said they were taken by a friend after a violent incident in May 2016.

Heard told the court she and Depp had reunited after a month away from one another following the death of his mother Betty Sue.

Depp said he “really needed his wife,” Heard recounted.

“He was telling me he was clean and he wasn’t a monster and was so sorry”

The court saw pictures which Heard said showed bruising after being struck by a phone Depp threw at here.

Heard said Depp went into a rage.

Depp fixated on faeces

But when he came over, he seemed fixated on faeces she said, specifically that of his dog Boo.

Heard said Boo had ongoing bathroom problems since eating some of Depp’s cannabis when it was younger.

Depp had said he believed one of Heard’s friends had left dog faeces on a bed as a “prank,” she said.

“I couldn’t believe he was talking about faeces when his mother just passed away.

“I just thought he was going out of his mind.”

She also vehemently denied she was responsible for the faeces prank, telling the court: “First of all, I don’t think that’s funny. I was not, also, in a pranking mood. My life was falling apart.”

Heard told the court her dog had “bowel control issues” after having once eaten a bag of Depp’s marijuana.

“It was not really a jovial time, and I don’t think that’s funny, period,” she continued. “That’s disgusting.”

When Depp left the room, Heard said she called her friend iO Tillett Wright who advised her to leave.

“Amber, get out of the house. Now you’re not safe,” she said Mr Tillett Wright told her.

Depp, Heard said, overheard the conversation on speaker phone and then came bounding down the stairs in a rage.

“He grabbed the phone and started screaming. Saying some really nasty stuff.

“He called iO every imaginable name you can say to an LGBTQI person.

“Then he pulls his arm back with the phone and threw it at my face.

“It felt like it hit me in the eye.

“I put my head in my hand and immediately stead crying.”

Heard said Depp then came over to her, while she was sobbing, and taunted her.

“He says ‘I hit you huh, I hit you yeah. Let me so how bad I hurt you this time’”.

The Aquaman actor then said her friend Raquel entered the room and tried to protect Heard from further blows by placing her body between Heard’s and Depp’s.

Photos of Heard’s face were later shown to officers who attended the residence after being called due to the dispute.

However Heard told the court she sent the police away as she said she didn’t want to harm Depp’s future.

The court was shown images that Heard said showed Depp cashing chaos in the house including spilled wine, smashed photographs and bottles thrown to the ground.

Heard’s ‘bruise kit’

The jury were then shown further photos of Heard with a bruise to her face taken at a Los Angeles courthouse in the same month as she applied for a temporary restraining order against Depp.

She also told the Fairfax court how she carried a theatre makeup kit “which I called my bruise kit”.

Heard described how her bruises would change colour over various days and how she chose the different colours in the kit to apply based on the hue of her damaged skin at that point.

“No woman wants to walk around with a bruise on her face”.

Heard said that she had tried to make the relationship work because of her love for Depp. But she could no longer do so which was why she decided to file for divorce.

“It was the hardest thing I have had to do. I did everything I could possibly do to make it work and it didn’t work.

“But if I didn’t (file for divorce) I’d likely not have survived.

“The monster had been this thing that was now the normal and not the exception.

“The violence was now normal and not the exception.”

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