Speaking out. Ellen Barkin testified about her relationship with Johnny Depp during his defamation trial with Amber Heard.The Drop Dead Gorgeous actress, 68, recorded a deposition about her romance with the Oscar nominee, 58, in November 2019 that was played in court on Thursday, May 19.
Barkin testified that the duo’s friendship turned “sexual” in 1994, noting that their relationship lasted for several months.“He was just a jealous man,” she claimed, adding that Depp would ask her: “Where are you going?
Who are you going with? What did you do last night?”The Animal Kingdom star alleged that her ex once got “very, very angry” when he found a scratch on her back. “He insisted it came from me having sex with a person who hasn’t him,” she claimed, adding that Depp exhibited “demanding” and “controlling” behavior during their relationship.Barkin also testified about times she’d seen the Edward Scissorhands star allegedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol. “He was always drinking and smoking a joint,” she told the court, claiming that Depp also used hallucinogenics.In one instance, the Emmy winner alleged that the Pirates of the Caribbean star “threw a wine bottle across the hotel room” in her direction during a fight between him and his friends.Depp previously denied Barkin’s claim about the wine bottle, calling it “untrue” during court proceedings for his libel trial against the U.K.
newspaper The Sun. “I do not have an anger management problem,” he said in July 2020.The Finding Neverland star is suing Heard, 36, for defamation in connection to a 2018 op-ed she published in The Washington Post.
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