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A friend of Johnny Depp said the actor remembers passing out in front of his children.
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iO Tillett Wright, who was not present during the incident, said her children were then “taken away”.
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He said his friendship with Amber Heard started earlier and lasted longer than that with Depp.
Amber Heard’s friend iO Tillett Wright testified on Tuesday that Johnny Depp once revealed he passed out on an island in the Bahamas.
“He told me he passed out face down while his kids were there and the staff took his kids out so they wouldn’t see him,” said Tillett Wright, photographer, writer and producer, in a deposition recorded March 10, 2022. Tillett Wright was not present during the incident and did not say whether it happened on Depp’s private island.
The testimony was the latest in the explosive $50million defamation case after Heard’s 2018 op-ed insinuating she had been the victim of abuse. Although Depp was not named in the Washington Post article, he claimed it ruined his career. Heard sued for $100 million and claimed Depp physically or sexually assaulted her before and during their 15-month marriage.
Tillett Wright said he had known Heard since 2011 and eventually became friends with her.
Shortly after, he met Depp, became close to the couple and briefly lived with the couple for a period of 9 months between August 2013 and June 2014.
Tillett Wright added that Depp had a “misogynistic and cruel” side when under the influence of drugs, but he had never seen Depp physically attack Heard.
“Johnny when he was sober was charming, magical and very funny,” Wright said. “Johnny when he was sober was incredibly lucid and imaginative and I felt a kindred connection to him,” he continued.
Depp has two children – Lily-Rose and Jack – with his former partner Vanessa Paradis. Heard and Depp, whose relationship lasted from 2012 to 2016, have no children together, but Heard welcomed a baby via surrogate in 2021.
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