Johnny Depp Says He Accepted ‘The Monster’ Nickname to ‘Placate’ Amber Heard’s Bullying
thewrap.comsecond day on the witness stand Wednesday, Johnny Depp testified that he accepted the nickname Amber Heard gave him — “The Monster” — to “placate” his now ex-wife in an attempt to calm her bullying and constant attacks.“In the beginning, she had used a different word to explain the same thing,” he said. “She would use the word ‘demon.’ Demons.
That my demons were coming out … I don’t remember exactly how ‘monster’ came out, but that word stuck and it stayed until this day.”Depp said he, too, adopted the term as a way to keep peace.“When I used the term ‘monster’ [with her], I was placating,” Depp said. “If she had referred to me as being a monster, there was no way I was going to sit there and go through a 45-minute argument about, ‘You’re a monster,’ ‘No I’m not!,’ ‘You’re a monster,’ ‘No I’m not!’ … What do you do?
You accept the vernacular … to placate her so that it would at least calm part of the aggression.”Depp says Heard defamed him by claiming in a Washington Post op-ed to be a victim of domestic abuse.
Depp is not named in the article but claims it damaged his career, and is seeking $50 million in damages; Heard has counter-sued for $100 million.“She had told me many times that the monster was only me when I was using drugs and alcohol,” he said from the Virginia courtroom. “But even when I was stone-cold sober, off of alcohol and all substances aside from my meds … the term ‘monster’ was still there … that was the word she clung to.
