Johnny Depp testified in British court Tuesday that then-wife Amber Heard may have once pooped in their bed as a “prank.”
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor said in a previously written statement read in court on the first day of his libel case that the actress or “possibly one of her friends” put the feces there — and that Heard later claimed it was “just a harmless prank,” Britain’s Mirror said.
Depp said the disgusting incident occurred after a party for Heard’s 30th birthday in their Los Angeles penthouse in May 2016 — and following a blow-up between the stormy couple.
“I understand that the following morning [after the party], Ms Heard (or possibly one of her friends) defecated in our shared bed,” Depp said, according to the statement.
“On 12 May 2016, Ms Heard confessed to our estate manager, Kevin Murphy, that leaving the feces in the bed had been ‘just a harmless prank,’ thereby effectively acknowledging that she had been responsible, whereas she had previously sought to blame our dogs,” the “Edward Scissorhands” star said.
But Depp said the poop couldn’t have been the work of the pair’s tiny Yorkshire teacup terriers because they were too small to jump up on the high bed and besides, their poo would have been a lot smaller.
Depp said that’s when he decided to divorce Heard, whom he has been locked in a vicious public battle with for several years, even after their official split in 2017.
Depp is testifying as part of a libel suit he filed against Britain’s The Sun over a 2018 article in which the paper called him a “wife beater.”
One of the Sun’s lawyers, Sasha Wass, said in court Tuesday, “His ‘wife beating’ behavior included throwing objects at [Heard], slapping her across the face, kicking her, gripping her around the throat and threatening to kill her.”
But the actor told the court that while he has gotten violent and had “taken every drug known to man” by age 14, he has never hit a woman, adding that Heard is the one who got physical with him.
Depp said he partly got into drugs because of his interest in the “counter-culture.
“And many literary heroes of mine have been opium users,” the actor said, according to the Daily Mail. “It has been a subject that I have learned about.”
Depp also talked about several of his famous idols, including Rolling Stones guitar legend Keith Richards and late writer Hunter S. Thompson, whose ashes the actor had fired from a cannon at a cost of $5 million. Depp portrayed Thompson in the 1998 flick, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me,” Depp quipped, quoting Thompson — to laughter in the court room.
One of Heard’s lawyers asked the actor whether he had supplied “Avengers” actor Paul Bettany “with whatever medication of controlled drugs he asked for.”
Depp responded, “If he was feeling anxious or he was feeling unpleasant, I would give him what he asked for,” including cocaine, the Mail said.
Depp said he also gave drugs to rocker Marilyn Manson “maybe” twice.
Depp admitted to spending nearly $30,000 a month on wine, although he claimed it wasn’t all for himself, the Sun said.
Depp credited Elton John with helping to eventually get him sober — admitting to the superstar singer once in an e-mail that he had a “brain and liver resembling [former British Prime Minister] Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher.”
“I would have been swallowed up by the monster were it not for you,” Depp wrote John, referring to his demons.
Meanwhile, as Depp was pursuing Heard romantically, he called singer Vanessa Paradis, his former lover and the mom of his two kids, his “French ex albatross.”
Depp also testified Tuesday — three years after his and Heard’s divorce — that the actress was nothing but a fame-seeking user, “a calculating, diagnosed borderline personality.
“For example, at the time [the pair met], she repeatedly told me how much she admired my films,” Depp said in a statement presented in court, according to the Mirror. “However, later in our relationship, she admitted that she had never seen any of my films.
“She knew what she wanted and I was an easy target,” he said.
He added in the statement that his ex once told his former head of security that Depp was a “fat old man” and that “she did not know why she married me.” Heard later denied saying it, the actor recalled.
“She is sociopathic; she is a narcissist, and she is completely emotionally dishonest,” Depp alleged of Heard.
“I am now convinced that she came into my life to take from me anything worth taking and then destroy what remained of it.”
Heard has accused him of hitting her during violent rages.
But Depp testified that it was “inconceivable’’ that he would ever hit a woman, saying his Southern upbringing taught him it was “very important” to respect females.
“It is a strong and central part of my moral code that I would never strike a woman, under any circumstances, at any time. I find it simply inconceivable, and it would never happen,” he told the court, according to the Mail.
He also recalled how his friend, actor River Phoenix, died of a heroin overdose at his nightclub the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 1993.
“He passed away on the sidewalk just outside my club,” Depp said.
His lawyers repeated claims that Heard cheated on Depp with Telsa chief Elon Musk and actor James Franco, allegations that both men have denied.
The lawyers also produced a photo of the fingertip that Depp says was severed during a 2015 fight with Heard when she slashed him with a broken bottle. Her camp has said he was responsible for the injury himself.
The actor was forced to talk about supplying his then-13-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, with pot, too. The dad said he felt it was safer than the child trying some at a party that could be laced with something.