10h 20min, jul 20, 2020 y - PAGE SIX Amber Heard admits to hitting 'f--king baby' Johnny Depp in court audio

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Amber Heard admits to hitting ‘f–king baby’ Johnny Depp in court audio

By Kate Sheehy

A recording that Johnny Depp secretly made after a fight with then-wife Amber Heard — in which she calls him “a f–king baby’’ and admits, “I hit you’’ — was introduced in British court Monday.

Depp’s camp produced the tape, which was previously made public, to hammer Heard over her claims that she was never physically violent with the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor.

The recording, part of which was played in court, included Depp insisting that Heard punched him with “a closed fist,” prompting her to fire back at him, “That’s the difference between me and you. You’re a f–king baby. You are such a baby. Grow the f–k up, Johnny.

“I’m sorry that I didn’t hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you, it was not punching you,” Heard said.

“I did not f–king deck you. I f–king was hitting you.

“Babe, you’re not punched.

“I don’t know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you’re fine, I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you. I can’t promise you I won’t get physical again,” she added.

“God, I f–king sometimes get so mad, I lose it.”

Depp said at one point on the tape, “I left last night, honestly, I swear to you, because I just couldn’t take the idea of more physicality, more physical abuse on each other.

“Because had we continued it, it would have gotten f–king bad. And baby, I told you this once.

“I’m scared to death we are a f–king crime scene right now.”

Heard said, “I did start physical fights, yes, so you did the right thing.”

Then she added, “What is your excuse when there’s no physical fight … and you still run away?

“You can still call me names. You’re a hypocrite, you’re a baby. If they give a taste of it to you, you f–king lose it, but yet you dish it out.”

Depp said, “If things get physical, we have to separate. We have to be apart from one another.

“Whether it’s for f–king an hour or 10 hours or f–king a day. We must. There can be no physical violence towards each other. … So that we don’t f–king kill each other or f–king worse, you know, f–king really kill each other or f–king break up or whatever.”

The actress testified Monday — her first day on the witness stand — that she only threw things at times “to escape” her physically and mentally abusive hubby.

“When I felt my life was threatened, I tried to defend myself, and that started to happen years into the relationship, years into the violence,” Heard said.

“Before that, I didn’t even try to defend myself, I just checked out.”

Depp is suing The Sun of Britain over a 2018 headline in which it called him a “wife-beater,” based on Heard’s claims that the actor assaulted her more than a dozen times during their twisted relationship. He has denied beating her.

But Heard has said her former husband was violent right up to the end of their relationship, including after her 30th birthday party at their Los Angeles penthouse in May 2016.

She has said he hurled a magnum of champagne at her that night, pushed her down, yanked her by the hair and left a note saying, “Happy f–king birthday.” He also allegedly trashed the pad, as well as another penthouse she used as an office and for storage.

One of Depp’s lawyers, Eleanor Laws, grilled Heard in court Monday about the actress’s alleged injuries, which she has said included a black eye and hurt arm, and physical property damage.

Two police officers called to the scene afterward testified last week that they saw no damage or injuries to Heard at the time.

“It’s all lies, isn’t it?” Laws asked Heard, who had been recounting what happened.

The actress replied, “No.”

Laws suggested that Heard and two pals “were all getting your heads together and smashing up the apartment and putting makeup on to make you look injured.”

Heard shot back, “No, I have never done that.”

Asked if this meant that the cops were lying, Heard replied, “I don’t know their motivations” — but suggested they hadn’t told the truth to cover up the fact that they took no action against Depp.

Laws also asked Heard about photos taken of her shortly after the incident.

“It doesn’t appear as if you have got any marks on your face at all there,” Laws said.

The lawyer added that in earlier photos that appeared to show injuries from Depp, Heard concocted the images herself “through makeup or lighting or any other means — it wasn’t any injury from Mr. Depp.”

Heard responded, “I disagree wholeheartedly.

“I know I had an injury.”


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US VA Court Documents:
Johnny Depp Exhibit 1276

Virginia Trial Transcript Day 18 pp5294

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