Amber Heard addressed the now-infamous “poop gate” at London’s High Court today, as she spoke for the first time during former spouse Johnny Depp’s libel case against publishers, News Group Newspapers (NGN).
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers over an April 2018 article in The Sun, in which he was called a “wife beater” by executive editor Dan Wootton.
Depp, 57, said during the first week of the trial that Heard, 34, had defecated in their marital bed, and this was the “final straw” when it came to their marriage being over.
Heard released a statement denying she was responsible for the stool found by Depp’s cleaner beneath a top sheet in a bed in the Los Angeles penthouse apartment they shared the morning after the actress’s 30th birthday.
Speaking about the incident in court on Monday, Amber said Johnny made the accusation after she attended Coachella with friends to mark her birthday.
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp have differing views over ‘Poopgate’ (Image: Getty Images)
She said: “I understand that Johnny is claiming, as ridiculous as this sounds, that I pooped in our bed after this incident. This is just not true. One of the dogs may have done it; they had accidents in the house a lot, including having pooped in our bed before, so it was a well-known pattern of the dogs’ behaviour. Johnny knew this, which is why I find his accusation was so ridiculous. My friends and I call this ‘Poopgate’. I didn’t see Johnny for a month after that, but I was constantly worried that he would show up, probably drunk or high, and act violently again. I even asked Kevin Murphy about getting the locks changed; he said that Johnny would need to agree to it.
Heard continued: “Johnny was becoming very angry with me, making accusations over ‘Poopgate’. I couldn’t believe he was getting so worked up about this ridiculous story when we hadn’t seen each other for a month and his mother had just died. We called Kevin Murphy and I challenged him over his account that I had said to him that it was a prank.
Pictures of the defecation were shown in court
“I was getting worried for my safety, as Johnny was getting more and more aggressive towards me about ‘Poopgate’. I texted Rocky asking her to come back over. I also spoke to our mutual friend iO Tillett Wright on the phone because Johnny was saying crazy things about iO being the one who pooped in the bed. I put iO on speakerphone and told iO what Johnny was saying and asked him to explain the truth. iO laughed at how ridiculous the accusation was and Johnny became enraged, ripping the phone from my hand and began screaming insults at iO.”
Heard also claimed during her explosive opening statement that Depp had threatened to kill her “many times”.
Heard denies defecating in the marital bed
Addressing the High Court, Heard said: “Some incidents were so severe that I was afraid he was going to kill me, either intentionally or just by losing control and going too far.
“He explicitly threatened to kill me many times, especially later in our relationship.”
Depp has denied all of Heard’s allegations of domestic abuse.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
