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Amber Heard called Johnny Depp a “f—ing coward” after she “cut off his finger” with a broken bottle — and then insisted she loved him and begged him not to leave, a UK court was told Tuesday. Depp’s bodyguard for 16 years, Malcolm Connolly, said he found the star “in emotional distress and panicking” with …
Amber Heard called Johnny Depp a “f—ing coward” after she “cut off his finger” with a broken bottle — and then insisted she loved him and begged him not to leave, a UK court was told Tuesday.
Depp’s bodyguard for 16 years, Malcolm Connolly, said he found the star “in emotional distress and panicking” with the gruesome injury sustained in a fight in a rented house in Australia in 2015.
“Look at my finger! She’s cut my f—ing finger off!” Depp cried, Connolly said in a written statement as part of Depp’s libel case against The Sun newspaper. “She’s smashed my hand with a vodka bottle.”
Connolly — who arrived with another security guard — says that they also saw a mark on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star where he told them Heard had put out a cigarette on his face.
Heard has claimed that her husband had inflicted a “three-day ordeal of physical assault” that left her with “a broken lip, swollen nose, and cuts all over her body.”
Connolly insisted in his statement that Heard’s account bore “no resemblance” to his recollection — and he insists the actress “did not have any marks on her face or arms.”
He said the Hollywood couple was “screaming at each other” and he insisted Depp leave with him in the car to get help.
“Amber appeared at the door and then came close to the car, screaming and crying, calling out words along the lines of ‘Are you just going to leave it like this, you f—ing coward?’” he said in his statement.
“Then she was saying ‘I love you, I love you. Is this how you are going to end this?’.
“She was not making a lot of sense – one second she was begging Johnny not to leave the house and then she was screaming at him for running away.
“She was absolutely hysterical. I was worried that she might start throwing objects at Johnny, or at myself, as I had seen her throw objects before.
“For example, I had seen her lob a fork in Johnny’s general direction once; another time I recall she threw a lighter at him, another time a can of coke.
“I knew that we needed to get out of there as soon as possible.”
Connolly said he could see Heard’s face “very clearly”, adding: “She did not have any marks on her face or arms. She didn’t look in any physical distress.
“I was much more concerned about Johnny. He was obviously in emotional distress and panicking. He wasn’t that drunk or out of it though and was easily standing on his own and having a conversation.”
The security guard said the team knew the true cause of Depp’s injury would “create extremely bad publicity” and they initially told staff at a hospital that the actor had injured his finger while slicing onions.
“I thought it was fairly obvious that this was not true given the severity of the injury and suggested we say he jammed it into a car door,” Connolly said.
“However we went with the onion cover story. The specialist didn’t believe us for one second.”
The trial was previously told that the attack was part of a “three-day ordeal of physical assault” Depp inflicted on his then-wife while he was “completely off [his] head on drink and drugs.”
Depp denied attacking his wife — insisting she was the only aggressor — but did admit using the stump of his injured digit to scrawl messages in blood on mirrors around the rented house in Australia.
The trial heard there was up to $150,000 damage to the property — with Depp accused of peeing on floors and even drawing a giant penis on the genital area of a woman in a painting.
Connolly’s evidence came on day six of the trial of the actor’s libel claim against The Sun newspaper over an April 2018 article which labeled him a “wife beater.”
With Post wires
