Johnny Depp, 58, has been involved in an ongoing high-profile defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, 36.
In the $100 million trial, the Pirates of the Caribbean star is suing his ex-wife while she is counter suing him.But, this week, tension was broken as the courtroom erupted into laughter alongside the actor when Johnny’s former bodyguard took to the stand to testify via Zoom link.Malcolm Connolly was asked whether Johnny had urinated in the foyer of the couple’s property in Australia during an argument in 2015.He replied on Thursday: “I think I would remember if I'd seen Mr Depp's penis.”During the trial, Johnny claimed he was dropped by Disney from Pirates of the Caribbean 6 in 2018 days after Amber wrote a Washington Post op-ed claiming to be a victim of domestic violence.In court this week, Johnny said: “Captain Jack Sparrow was a character I built from the ground up and was something that I, of course, put a lot of [myself] into the character and also having worked on these films with these people and added much of myself, much of my own re-writing of the dialogue and scenes and jokes.“I didn't quite understand how, after that long relationship and quite a successful relationship certainly for Disney, that suddenly I was guilty until proven innocent.”The actor claimed he had been approached “to take part in Pirates 6”.He also explained his intentions to continue playing the popular character until “it was time to stop”.Johnny added: “My feeling was that these characters should be able to have their proper goodbye, as it were.“A franchise can only last for so long and there's a way to end a franchise like that and I thought that the characters deserved to have their way out, to end the.
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