A Horrifying Threat & More - Latest From The Johnny Depp Trial!

Friday was apparently the final day for witnesses in Johnny Depp‘s libel trial.

While he’s suing The Sun for calling him a “wife-beater” in an op-ed headline, the real fight is between the Pirates of the Caribbean star and his ex Amber Heard as he’s trying to prove her accusations of domestic violence are nothing but a “hoax.”

This week has been all about The Sun‘s witnesses, mostly Amber (and her friends) doubling down on the abuse claims — and defending against her own accusations of abusing Johnny.

So was there anything new on the final day? Some Law & Order twist to change everything? Ch-ch-check out our recap (below)!

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1 A Horrifying Threat
2 ‘Johnny Would Rather Destroy Me’
3 ‘Urinating On The Furniture’
4 Reality TV Shocker

A Horrifying Threat

iO Tillet Wright testified on Friday about the infamous fight at the end of the couple’s marriage in May 2016, in which Johnny is accused of throwing a phone at Amber’s face.

What does Amber’s pal know? Apparently he was a witness to the whole thing as he was on the phone with the Aquaman star for some of it!

The writer told the court via videolink it was during a conversation that Johnny suddenly came at Amber, screaming at her to “get out of the house.” Then there came a sound, iO said, like a phone being dropped on the floor, after which he heard his friend’s voice “say something like ‘you just threw the phone at my face.'”

He claims Johnny replied:

“Oh, you think I hit you, you think I hit you. What if I peel your hair back?”

Yeesh! That’s horrifying!

The 34-year-old said he heard “what sounded like a cry or a yelp” and then Amber shouting out for him to “call 911,” which he then hung up and did.

iO further testified Johnny was not just upset but “in a froth” over the ppo on the bed incident. Amber herself denied that was her, blaming the dogs instead. Her friend backed her up, saying Johnny suffered from “paranoid delusions.”

[We should note, the Darling Days writer is not a psychiatrist and was not testifying in any expert capacity. (We’ve seen SVU, we know what’s up.)]

‘Johnny Would Rather Destroy Me’

Another witness who heard the couple’s intense fights was Amber’s acting coach, Kristina Sexton, who made clear she never saw any physical violence but definitely was aware of “emotional violence.”

She testified she at times heard “actual arguments happening in the other room” and claimed Amber once told her:

“Johnny would rather destroy me than let me go.”

Whoa! RED FLAG! That is some Lifetime movie scariness. What were the fights about? Well, as we’ve heard a lot during this trial, jealousy. Sexton recalled:

“She started telling me that he was accusing everyone of being in love with her and accusing her of wielding her sexuality all the time. She also told me that he was constantly upset about her ex-partners. She told me he was worried about her having affairs with co-stars.”

The acting coach also corroborates the claim Johnny was trying to stop Amber from doing movies with nudity or sex scenes, saying:

“She started telling me that she couldn’t do certain roles because he didn’t want her doing ‘whore parts.'”

Ew. Seriously that’s awful.

The acting coach went on to say she and Amber had discussions about how Johnny “really wanted them to have children” but that she wasn’t ready to do that while he was still an addict:

“I remember her telling me that he wanted her ‘barefoot and pregnant — and at home’ and her saying, ‘I’m not going off the pill. I don’t want to have kids with an addict.’ We had this conversation a number of times over the course of their relationship.”

Sexton testified Amber told her about the physical abuse only after she had filed for divorce.

‘Urinating On The Furniture’

Another friend of Amber’s, Raquel “Rocky” Pennington took the stand as well, revealing some of the most horrific acts of violence Johnny committed — at least that Amber told her about.

Speaking about the infamous fingertip incident, Rocky backed Amber’s story, revealing what she was told:

“She said that he was throwing glass bottles at her, and there was broken glass all over the ground which cut her feet. She said he backed her up against a bar and she was trying to support herself but her arms were sliding down and getting cut by broken glass. Amber told me that at this point Johnny ripped off her nightgown and she was naked on the ground, all wet with alcohol, and bleeding. Amber told me that at some point during this fight Johnny had cut the tip of his finger off.”

That is definitely Amber’s side of events, exactly as she stated it in her own op-ed. Rocky said she did see some proof:

“Amber showed me pictures of painted messages Johnny had written all over the rental house in paint and his own blood. She said that whilst she had gone to get dressed he had dipped his bloody finger in paint and written all over the walls and the lampshades.”

But that wasn’t the only mark he made on the territory…

“She said she came down and he was urinating on the furniture and had smashed the television.”

If that’s true, if he really was peeing all over the furniture, his complaint about the poop in the bed is a little hypocritical.

Rocky also said she “voiced my concerns to Amber that Johnny might accidentally kill her while he was intoxicated or delusional like he was in Australia.”

If everything Amber has said about that trip is true, it was a valid concern…

Reality TV Shocker

Perhaps the most courtroom drama-style shocker moment came during the cross-examination of Amber’s sister Whitney Henriquez.

Whitney testified previously she witnessed Johnny being abusive (more on that incident HERE) and claimed she had never been physically assaulted by Amber.

It was that second part Johnny’s legal team used to impugn her credibility. They showed a video from a previously unreleased reality TV show from the mid-to-late 2000s, showing Whitney in a pool with some other women. In the clip, the women ask Whitney about the fight with her sister, with one being heard saying: