Trial Heard From Johnny Depp & Amber: Doctor Describes Actor’s Drug Addiction Efforts – Update

Updated, 14:47: Much of the afternoon of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial was spent listening to a video deposition of Dr. David Kipper, hired in 2014, who was treating Depp with opioid supplements.

Kipper outlined a plan to help Depp detox from the Bahamas, where he has an island.

But Depp had expressed at least twice his desire not to continue until Kipper had sent him a letter: “Stop releasing him. I know what I am doing. “

Keeper said Depp was confident he would stick to the treatment plan.

In a text message dated August 24, 2014, Depp wrote: “I forgot to mention that I had a positive and selfless argument with Amber last night, hopefully it went very well … and then I rang a few bells at the club. on Sunset Boulevard…. “

Kipper said in a statement that he does not remember a specific text, “so it could be an attempt at humor.”

He was also asked about other texts, including one from his nurse Debra Lloyd, in which Depp was said to have “knocked on a blackboard after a fight in the kitchen” and another in which he had knocked on the door of the set because he was upset. With the director.

Kipper said he has never seen violence between Depp and Herd. But the following year, in March 2015, while they were in Australia, Depp visited Keeper and complained to Herd: “He’s as full as a Christmas goose.” He called it “the wicked wicked and the vengeful ***”.

“He is very desperate for success and fame,” wrote Depp. “Maybe that’s why I bought it.”

This was followed by a second text later that month, which was also read in court, in which he apologized for his “regressive and disgusting behavior”. He reported to Kipper that he “cut off half of my middle finger. What do I have to do? Go to the hospital? “I’m too embarrassed to get into anything with him.”

Kipper said he went to visit Depp in an Australian rented house, which was “a mess. There were things that got thrown away.”

He said they went to the hospital and Depp was taken to a hand surgeon. But Keeper warned her on March 15 that she would withdraw treatment if she didn’t follow the drug treatment plan, as she would have to be “stable” for the surgery. So Depp promised to keep it.

In June, Depp sent Keeper a note: “I don’t have a deformed finger and I have no friends !!! By the way … Ember and I were absolutely perfect for three months. I locked my monster in a cage and he beat him up! We are best friends now. “

Kipper said he was concerned that Depp was “taking more Xanax than he should have taken,” as well as the impact that phone calls between Depp and Herd would have on his behavior.

The trial was postponed for the weekend.

soon: Marriage therapist confirmed in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard libel trial that the rocky couple engaged in “what I considered a mutual insult.”

Dr. Laurel Anderson, in a video posted Thursday in the Virginia courthouse, detailed the comments she made during the couple’s sessions.

“It has been well controlled, I don’t know, for nearly 20, 30 years and they have both been victims of violence in their own homes, but I thought it was well controlled for decades. “And with Ms. Herd, she got active and engaged in what I saw as a double insult,” she said.

Depp sued Herd in December 2018 for a Washington Post A post in which Herd claimed she was a victim of domestic violence. Although she did not name Depp, her attorneys said there was sufficient connection to her domestic violence allegations surfaced two years ago. Herd filed a counterclaim.

Anderson said Depp and Herd were victims of childhood violence.

Anderson worked with Herd and Depp for 21 sessions. She said Herd had “the Jackhammer style of speaking” and was “very empowered”, while he “had a hard time speaking at a similar pace”.

In one of the notes he wrote during the session, he wrote: “He beats her. No closed fists. He responds and begins to do so out of pride that his father knocked him out. “

Anderson said the record “informed me” that Depp had hit it with an “open hand punch.”

“He says he will answer out of pride. There are many reasons for this. If he activated, she would hit him first. “

After an argument on May 21, 2016, in which Herd received a restraining order against Depp, the actor paid him a visit, Anderson said. The therapist said he saw bruises on Herd’s face, as well as the photos that were shown to him. Herd claimed that Depp threw and hit the phone during the fight.

Depp and Heard sit outside the courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia. Sometimes during the Anderson show, Depp would chew on something that looked like a stick or a straw.