Reps for Amber Heard are fighting back after her ex, Johnny Depp, denied physically abusing Heard in a new British GQ interview.
A statement from the actress’ attorney in response to the Depp piece, claimed: “It is outrageous that GQ never spoke to any of the multiple witnesses to Mr. Depp’s physical abuse of Ms. Heard prior to publishing its article. If GQ had done even a basic investigation into Mr. Depp’s claims, it would have quickly realized that his statements are entirely untrue. Mr. Depp has blatantly disregarded the parties’ confidentiality agreement and yet has refused to allow Ms. Heard to respond to his baseless allegations, despite repeated requests that she be allowed to do so.”
The statement added, “Mr. Depp is shamefully continuing his psychological abuse of Ms. Heard, who has attempted to put a very painful part of her life firmly in her past. One need only look at the physical evidence to draw the proper conclusion.”
In the British GQ piece, Depp said that the allegations against him have turned him from “Cinderella to Quasimodo” in Hollywood.
“The thing that hurt me is being presented as something that you’re really as far away from as you could possibly get,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star told the mag for its November edition. “To harm someone you love? No, it didn’t, it couldn’t even sound like me. So, initially, I just kept my mouth shut, you know?… I ain’t going to get into a pi–ing contest with someone about it. Spit out what you need to spit out and, you know, my attorneys will take care of the rest. I never went out and spoke about the s–t.”
The couple settled their divorce in 2017, with Depp agreeing to pay around $7 million — which Heard donated to charity. In 2016, Heard’s friend iO Tillett Wright wrote a post for Refinery29 about abuse, not naming Heard or Depp. TMZ posted leaked video of Depp allegedly throwing a wine glass, plus a report that included a picture of Heard with a bruised face and the allegation that Depp hit her with an iPhone — which his side denied.
Heard did not file a police report at the time. Depp told British GQ of Heard and the alleged iPhone incident: “Why didn’t that person speak to the police? I mean, they spoke to the police, but the police saw nothing and they offered her an emergency medical technician. She said no. Police see nothing on her. Police see nothing broken in the place, no marks, and then they offer her an EMT to have a look at her and she says no and I don’t know if it was the next day or a couple of days later, but then there was a bruise. There was a red mark and then there was a brown bruise.”
He also claimed in the interview: “She was at a party the next day. Her eye wasn’t closed. She had her hair over her eye, but you could see the eye wasn’t shut. Twenty-five feet away from her, how the f–k am I going to hit her? Which, by the way, is the last thing I would’ve done. I might look stupid, but I ain’t f–king stupid.”
A rep for British GQ did not immediately get back to us on Wednesday.
The piece’s author wrote in the profile: “This isn’t a piece claiming to know with any authority about what happened between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in May 2016 or at any other time between the pair in private. All I wanted to do was come to Depp and ask him to give his side of the story, which up until now has not been properly heard.”
A rep for Depp did not immediately comment.
At the time of their divorce the couple issued a joint statement saying, “Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm.”
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