12h 12min, mar 17, 2020 y - THE DAILY MAIL: AUDIO/ VIDEO RELEASE 'I just reacted and I'm sorry. It's below me.' Listen as Amber Heard admits to smashing a door into Johnny Depp's head before 'clocking' him in the jaw, in explosive audio tape confession

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EXCLUSIVE: 'I just reacted and I'm sorry. It's below me.' Listen as Amber Heard admits to smashing a door into Johnny Depp's head before 'clocking' him in the jaw, in explosive audio tape confession

- Amber Heard admitted to smashing a door into Johnny Depp's head in an explosive tape recording, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com

* The audio has never been aired publicly, but Depp's lawyers played it out loud to Heard, 33, while she was giving a deposition in their bitter 2016 divorce case
* The actress claims she didn't mean to slam the door into Depp's face - but says of the punch to her then-husband's jaw: 'I just reacted and I'm sorry. It's below me'
* She told Depp's lawyers that the taped conversation 'misrepresents what actually happened,' disputing whether it was a punch or a push
* The latest tape emerged today as the warring A-listers prepare to square up again in two separate defamation lawsuits on either side of the Atlantic
* In 2016, Heard yielded to Depp's plea to settle out of court for $7m, but their truce crumbled in 2018 with Heard's domestic violence victim op-ed
* Depp hit her with a $50m defamation suit, saying she implied he was the abuser, which caused him to lose his prized role of Captain Jack Sparrow
* In their legal battle, both accused the other of domestic violence and DailyMail.com published a recording in which Heard confessed to 'hitting' Depp

By BEN ASHFORD FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Amber Heard admits to smashing a door into Johnny Depp's head before 'clocking' him in the jaw in the latest bombshell in a series of explosive audio recordings obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

The shocking tape suggests the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 56, was hit so hard by the bathroom door that it knocked him off his feet.

'I then stood up, I don't even know if I said, I mean, I might've said like, what the f**k, you know, whatever. Cause I'd just been hit in the head with a f**king corner of the door,' Depp protests.

'And then I stood up and then you f**king clock me.'

Heard claims she didn't mean to slam the door into Depp's face - but says of the punch to her then-husband's jaw: 'I just reacted and I'm sorry. It's below me.'

The shocking audio has never been aired publicly, but Depp's lawyers played it out loud to the 33-year-old actress while she was giving a deposition in their bitter 2016 divorce case.

She told his attorneys that the taped conversation 'misrepresents what actually happened,' disputing whether it was a punch or a push, before adding: 'I mean, he was just very dramatic about everything.'

The bombshell tape suggests the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 56, was hit so hard by the bathroom door that it knocked him off his feet. 'I then stood up, I don't even know if I said, I mean, I might've said like, what the f**k, you know, whatever. Cause I'd just been hit in the head with a f**king corner of the door,' Depp protests. 'And then I stood up and then you f**king clock me.' As part of Depp's $50m defamation case against Heard, he included images of his own bruised and battered face (pictured ) following Heard's alleged attacks

Depp's supporters, however, say it is just one of several taped 'confessions' that prove Heard was the domestic abuser in their toxic 18-month marriage - the precise opposite of what she claims.

In a previous exchange, published exclusively by DailyMail.com in January, Heard admitted to 'hitting' the Oscar nominee, and pelting him with pots, pans and vases.

Weeks later, DailyMail.com published a further clip in which Heard, an ambassador for women's rights and an outspoken domestic violence advocate, taunted Depp for fleeing a violent confrontation, telling him: 'You are such a baby. Grow the f**k up Johnny.'

The latest tape emerged today as the warring A-listers prepare to square up again in two separate defamation lawsuits on either side of the Atlantic.

On March 23, Depp will take on News Group Newspapers in London over a 2018 article in The Sun newspaper that described him as 'wife beater' and allegedly damaged his standing as a globally famed movie star, with Heard scheduled to give testimony.

And, later this year, hostilities will switch to Virginia where Depp has filed a $50 million suit over a Washington Post op-ed in which Heard lamented her experiences as a domestic violence victim, an article that didn't mention her ex by name but allegedly led to him losing his role of Captain Jack Sparrow.

It's not known when or where the latest audio was made, however the pair had a habit of recording their arguments, often consensually, as a form of DIY marriage guidance so they could play the tapes back later.

'I opened the bathroom door when you were knocking on it,' Depp begins in the near-three minute clip.

'After a few times I opened and you know, you just kept coming, you just kept going, you just kept going, kept going.

'I tried to close the door three times, you know, please, please, just do you know.

'And then, wait and then, then I, I, I, I accidentally, I swear when I was trying to close the door, I guess it scraped your toes.

'I didn't, you know, I didn't mean to do that. I don't know. I bent down and you either pushed or you kicked.

'I think you kicked the door open. I mean the door. Yeah, more open so that it would hit me and it hit me.'

Heard insists that she didn't mean to slam the door into father-of-two Depp - but he protests: 'It hit me in the f**king head.'

Heard responds: 'I did not do anything to, I did not kick a door or push a door so that it would hit you. I did not, I swear that I don't even, that did not, it was not my intention.

'I think I remember when the door scraped my toes. I, um, I, I reacted, but this whole, the door thing, I, I remember I never did that. That wasn't on purpose. I might've done it on accident.'

Depp is prepared to accept that the door smashing part of his accusation could have been unintentional.

But as for the alleged punch: 'I then stood up, I don't even know if I said, I mean, I might've said like, what the f**k, you know, whatever. Cause I'd just been hit in the head with a f**king corner of the door.

'And then I stood up and then you f**king clock me.'

Heard replies: 'I remember hitting you as a response to the door thing. And I'm really sorry about hitting you with the door or hitting your head, I did not mean to.'

Finally Depp asks: 'You didn't mean to hit me in the head with the door but you meant to punch me in the jaw?'

His ex-wife, admits: 'I did mean, I meant to hit you, and I did not do this thing with the door, I do remember, I did mean to hit you.'

She adds: 'Okay. I'm sorry I hit you. I didn't mean to hit you but it was in response. I just reacted in response to my foot. I just reacted and I'm sorry. It's below me.'

When confronted with the same audio tape during her 2016 divorce disposition, Heard insisted she was the one trapped and on the defensive, not Depp.

'It also misrepresents what actually happened, which is him trying to get into a room,' she said, according to a transcript obtained by DailyMail.com.

'I'm trying to keep him out of, and then he runs the door over my toes trying to get into the room. I tried to push him out of it, which is what the hit is that is referred to.

'And Johnny, whenever he was hit or touched at all, referred to it in these ways of punching or clocked or whatever.

'And whether you discussed it with him or not, the last thing you do in talking to him afterwards or trying to reconcile with him is to get into what the definition of those words mean to him.'

Depp and Heard met on the set of The Rum Diary, back in 2011 and married in February 2015.

However they split less than two years later when Heard filed for divorce and obtained a temporary restraining order against Depp for allegedly beating her up, an accusation he has repeatedly denied.

Amid a torrent of headlines and blood-curdling allegations, the pair agreed to a $7 million divorce settlement in August 2016 - which Heard says she donated to charity.

However their back-and-forth feud reignited when she wrote in her December 2018 op-ed: 'I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out.'

The article didn't mention Depp by name but he sued regardless, arguing he was the victim of an 'elaborate hoax' instigated by Heard to generate positive publicity and advance her career.

'Ms. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse; she is a perpetrator,' the lawsuit alleges.

'She hit, punched and kicked me. She also repeatedly and frequently threw objects into my body and head, including heavy bottles, soda cans, burning candles, television remote controls and paint thinner cans, which severely injured me.'

Heard responded with a lurid 300-page filing of her own, cataloging the 'horrific' abuse she claimed to have suffered at Depp's hands, describing him as 'the monster' and recalling many of the allegations she made during their divorce.

A spokesman for Heard's legal team said: 'Ms. Heard's testimony is clear that, in the incident described, she was attempting to escape an assault at the hands of Mr. Depp.

'It is unfortunately common for men who have committed domestic abuse to present themselves as the ''victim'' when nothing could be further from the truth.'

The case is due to be heard in August.

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