Earlier in the trial, Ellen Barkin, with whom Mr Depp also had a romantic relationship in the 1990s, called him a “controlling” and “jealous man”, referring to an incident in Las Vegas in which she said Mr Depp tossed a bottle of wine into a hotel room. She said there was a fight between Mr Depp and other people in the room, but she could not remember the reason.
The Virginia case was sparked by a 2018 publication in The Washington Post in which Ms. Hurd said her career had suffered after she became a “public figure representing domestic violence.” The article does not mention Mr. Depp’s name, but he claims that hints about their relationship “devastate” his acting career.
A seven-judge jury is also hearing Ms. Hurd’s counter-claim that Mr Depp slandered her when the lawyer representing him at the time made statements to the British tabloid The Daily Mail that her allegations of abuse are fraud.
Ms. Hurd testified that Mr Depp’s anger was fueled by drug and alcohol use and was sparked by his suspicions that she had an affair, which she repeatedly denied. Mr. Depp, she said, was going to hit her, slap and kick her, and he had torn lumps out of her hair and sexually assaulted her with a bottle.
During four days of testimony earlier in the trial, Mr Depp described Ms Hurd as a person with a “need for conflict” and a “need for violence”. He said she had physically attacked him on a number of issues, including a potential post-marital agreement, her desire for Mr. Depp to abstain from drugs and alcohol, and his delay in dinner for her 30th birthday.
On Wednesday, one of the texts Mr. Depp encountered included his words about Ms. Hurd in 2016: “I have no mercy, no fear and no gram of emotion, or what I once thought was love of digging. of gold, low, a penny a dozen, messy, pointless hanging, overused loose fish market. “
Mr Depp said the text portrayed his anger at the false accusations that had turned him into “scum” in the eyes of many.
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