Johnny Depp’s former assistant has claimed Amber Heard was ‘the abuser’ in her relationship with the actor and subjected Depp to ‘years of abuse’.
Depp is suing The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) over an April 2018 column by the paper’s executive editor Dan Wootton, which referred to him as a ‘wife beater’.
The high court libel case is currently underway, with Depp, 57, giving evidence in the witness box over the last five days. His former assistant Stephen Deuters was called to give evidence on Monday and claims in his written statement that Depp had told him on ‘multiple occasions’ that Heard, 34, had ‘attacked or abused him physically and verbally’.Deuters alleges that he was with both Depp and Heard ‘very regularly’.
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