Actress Amber Heard recently recounted years of abuse she endured by her former husband and actor Johnny Depp, in new court documents filed in response to his $50 million defamation lawsuit against her. The actress referred to Johnny as "the monster" multiple times in the court filings and claimed he wouldn't remember the abuse due to his excessive drinking and drug use. She has claimed that at their apartment here in December 2015, the former Pirates of the Caribbean star grabbed Heard by the hair and throat, slapped her in the face and screamed, "I'll f***ing kill you, you hear me?" He allegedly dragged her on a bed and began punching her head, breaking the bed frame in the process. For a while, I could not scream or breathe. I worried that Johnny was in a blacked-out state and unaware of the damage he was doing, and that he could actually kill me," she added.
However, their ongoing tussle which has now turned pretty ugly has now got American entertainment company Warner Bros worried over Johnny's casting in Fantastic Beasts 3, a part of Harry Potter franchise. As per recent reports, the company apparently is wondering how to deal with the backlash against Johnny in reference to their film, which is expected to roll out in fall 2020 instead of this summer as originally planned.
Meanwhile, author of the Harry Potter books, JK Rowling had also publicly supported Johnny playing Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 2 in 2017 after news of his marriage derailed publicly.
Amber and Johnny got married in 2015, but a month later he went on a three-day bender on ecstasy.
(Source: IANS/TNN)