The actor is scheduled to testify for a second day on Wednesday.
“Lies will get you nowhere, but lies build upon lies and build upon lies.
I’m obsessed with the truth.”
Johnny Depp testifies during his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard on April 19, 2022.JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in 2011.John Phillips/getty
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."
“It was as if she was too good to be true,” Depp testified.
“She was attentive.
She was understanding.”
Things started to reveal themselves."
“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.”
Depp’s defamation trial against Heard continues Wednesday and is available to stream onCourt TVandLaw&Crime data pipe.
UPDATE: Find out what happened onday 2 for Depp’s testimony here.
