Depp issuing Heard for $50 millionover her 2018Washington Postop-edchronicling her experiences as a domestic violence survivor.

Below, EW recaps the most shocking moments from Depp’s testimony from week one of the six-week proceedings.

“Truth is the only thing I’m interested in,” Depp testified.

“Lies will get you nowhere, but lies build upon lies and build upon lies.

I’m obsessed with the truth.”

He called the allegations “heinous and disturbing” and “not based in any species of truth.”

“The verbal abuse, the psychological abuse, was almost worse than the beatings,” Depp testified.

“The beatings were just physical pain.

The physical pain, you learn to deal with.

You learn to accept it.

You learn to deal with it.”

He stood there and just looked at her while she delivered the pain, and he swallowed it."

“Sometimes pain has to be dealt with with humor, and sometimes dark humor,” Depp testified.

“I grew up watching Monty Python…

I tend to be quite expressive in my writing.”

She has a need for violence.

It erupts out of nowhere.

The only thing I learned to do is exactly what I did as a child retreat."

Depp said the couple would argue often, and that small conflicts would escalate into violence.

It could begin with throwing a glass of wine at my face.

All in all, it was constant," he said.

“You didn’t get punched; you got hit.

“I did not f—ing deck you.

I f—ing was hitting you.

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.”

On one occasion, Depp said he was “roundhouse punched” by Heard.

A photograph was then presented in court showing Depp’s bruised face.

But a ‘head-butt,’ that’s pretty extreme definition of that,” he said.

“I was shown a picture of what the problem was,” Depp said.

It was so bizarre and so grotesque that I could only laugh."

Heard “tried to blame it on the dogs,” according to Depp.

“They’re teacup Yorkies.

They weigh about 4 pounds each.

The photograph that I saw I lived with those dogs for many years.

It was not the dogs…

I didn’t feel like I deserved that kind of treatment.”

Later, at the bar, Heard “was nowhere around,” Depp said.

You’re a monster!'"

I knew in my mind and my heart that this is not life.

No one should have to go through this."

I lost then," he said.

When Heard’s attorney clarified, “Pills, right, with Marilyn Manson?”

On another occasion, photos were shown of Depp seeminglypassed out with ice cream on his lap.

Depp’s text messages with Manson and former costar and friend Paul Bettany were also presented.

“I use marijuana… A lot!!

!,” one 2012 text to Manson read.

“The pill and the plant stuff keep me calm and detached.”

No food for days.

Half a bottle of whisky.

His infamous texts with Bettany about burning and drowning Heard were also presented again.

Cocaine is, in my experience, is normally given in plastic bags.

Heard starred opposite Franco in 2008’sPineapple Expressand 2015’sThe Adderall Diaries, and opposite Thornton in 2018’sLondon Fields.

I become jealous and f—ing weird and we fight a lot more."

“I don’t know about that.

I don’t remember drawing a penis on a painting,” Depp said.

He later continued, “I had messages to write, reminders.”

“Good luck and be careful at the top” was written on a lampshade.

“I thought it was good advice,” Depp told the court.

In one video, Heard recorded Depp slamming cabinets in their kitchen and pouring himself a glass of wine.

“Clearly I was having a bad time,” he said.

Don’t cut yourself.

Put the knife down."

Check back for more developments in the case as the trial continues next.

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