Johnny Depp alleges that his ex-wife’s mistreatment accusation cost him his role in Pirates of the Caribbean

The trial continues between actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, held in the United States. Depp accuses her of defamation and this Wednesday he declared in court that Heard suffered constantly outbursts of anger in which he insulted him and even denied him medication.

According to his story, since Amber Heard publicly accused him of abuse, his life turned upside down. Something that has cost him, among things, according to the actor, his appearance in one of the best-known sagas: Pirates of the Caribbean.

It was precisely shooting the fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, when she would have thrown a bottle at him that cut his finger. The attack would have occurred after an argument in which Depp poured himself a glass of vodkaafter being sober for months, which allegedly precipitated Heard’s anger.

Depp addicted to opiates

Depp acknowledged that, during the time he was with Heard, had to be treated for his oxycodone addiction problemsan opiate that was prescribed to him when he suffered an accident during the filming of the fourth film of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’

During three years of legal fight, Depp, 58, and Heard, 35, have shared details about what their life was like and in which lThe actress claimed, in various ways, to have been a victim of ill-treatment. The actor asks his ex-partner for 50 million dollars in damages.

For his part, Heard has responded with a counterclaim in which he alleges that Depp has launched a smear campaign against him and claims 100 million. Previously, in a trial held in 2020 in London, and which Depp lost, the actress attended as a witness, since the accusation was against the British newspaper ‘The Sun’ for an article that described the actor as a “women’s aggressor”.