Paul Bettany says it was “embarrassing” to have texts with Johnny Depp shared in trial

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Johnny Depp shared in court during the latter’s libel trial as “embarrassing”.Back in 2020, Depp sued The Sun newspaper over a column that referred to the actor as a “wife beater”.A series of texts between Bettany and Depp – who have starred in three films together – were read aloud in the trial, where they joked about “drowning” Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard to prove she wasn’t a witch.One of the messages written by Bettany, sent in 2013, read: “I’m not sure we should burn Amber.

She is delightful company and pleasing on the eye. We could of course do the English course of action and perform a drowning test.

Thoughts? You have a swimming pool?”In response, Depp wrote: “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”Bettany replied: “My thoughts entirely.

Let’s be certain before we pronounce her a witch.”After the actor previously addressed the texts last year, Bettany has now spoken about his involvement in the trial further in an interview with The Times.“We live in a world without context,” Bettany said. “I didn’t know Johnny when he was married to Amber.