Johnny Depp says Amber 'grossly embellished' drug use by him

Hollywood star Johnny Depp accused Amber Heard of giving grossly embellished accounts of his substance abuse while giving evidenceThe 58yearold actor is suing his exwife for defamation over a Washington Post oped she wrote in which she referred to herself as a victim of domestic violence and she has counter sued her former spouse with the legal battle currently taking place in VirginiaOn Tuesday Depp took the stand at Fairfax County Courthouse and though he admitted to developing an addiction to pain medication following an injury on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 taking his mothers nerve pills from the age of just 11 and indulging in various substances over the years to numb myself of the ghosts the wraiths that were still with me from my youth he insisted the Aquaman star had made some plainly false allegations relating to his use of drugs and alcoholHighlighting various long periods of sobriety over the years and explaining how he had detoxed from the prescription drugs he told the court The characterisation of my substance abuse thats been delivered by Ms Heard is grossly embellishedAnd Im sorry to say but a lot of it is just plainly false I think that it was an easy target for her to hit Because once youve trusted somebody for a certain amount of years and youve told them all the secrets of your life that information can of course be used against you reports femalefirstcoukThe actor also looked back on the early days of his relationship with Amber and admitted she seemed too good to be true though he was aware of things that might be a bit of a dilemma at some pointHe said In the beginning of my relationship with Ms Heard from what I recall it was as if she was too good to be true She was attentive she was loving she was smart she was kind she was funny she was understanding and we had many things in commonFor that year or year and a half it was amazing there were a couple of things that stuck in my head that I noticed that I thought might be a little bit of a dilemma at some pointHe recalled how Amber developed a routine when he came home from work in which she would give him a glass of wine and take his boots off but when he once disrupted the ritual by removing his own footwear the Danish Girl star became visibly shaken and upsetHe said Once you notice something like that then you start to notice other little tidbits and things that come outThen within a year or year and a half she had become another person almostLater in his testimony Depp told the court how Amber would get upset if he wanted to stay up late and watch TV when she went to bed reports femalefirstcoukThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever