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Johnny Depp breaks his silence on Amber Heard’s abuse claims

The actor says he'll "never stop fighting" against the allegations

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Johnny Depp has broken his silence on Amber Heard’s claims that he was abusive during their marriage.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star and the 32-year-old actress divorced in January 2017, after she applied for a domestic violence restraining order the year before.

Amber famously accused Johnny of “violently” attacking her at their home in May 2016, an allegation Johnny has firmly denied.

Speaking to GQ about his “volatile” marriage, the actor denied being a violent man, and said the reaction to Amber’s abuse allegations turned him “from Cinderella into Quasimodo”.

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He said: “It hurts. The thing that hurt me is being presented as something that you’re really as far away from as you could possibly get, you know? But to… To harm someone you love? As a kind of bully? No, it didn’t, it couldn’t even sound like me.”

“So, initially, I just kept my mouth shut, you know? I knew it was going to stick on me and it would get weirder. Keep going, you know? Go nuts.

“I ain’t going to get into a pissing contest with someone about it. Spit out what you need to spit out and, you know, my attorneys will take care of the rest. I never went out and spoke about the sh*t.”

“Listen, I know I was never going to be Cinderella – I know this and accept it. But it felt like within a very, very short period of time that suddenly this version – for lack of a better word – of Cinderella had been immediately turned into the beast. He’s Quasimodo. I could feel people look at me differently, because of the accusations towards you,” he continued.

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“And then people start putting things in magazines: ‘He’s insane. He needs to take a sanity test…’ You know, ludicrous stuff. But the only thing that I could do was know what I still know.”

Referring to his alleged attack on Amber in May 2016, Johnny claimed: “She was at a party the next day. Her eye wasn’t closed. She had her hair over her eye, but you could see the eye wasn’t shut.”

“Twenty-five feet away from her, how the f**k am I going to hit her? Which, by the way, is the last thing I would’ve done. I might look stupid, but I ain’t f**king stupid.”

The 55-year-old also alleged that police couldn’t find any signs of abuse on her body.

“I mean, they spoke to the police, but the police saw nothing and they offered her an emergency medical technician. She said no. Police see nothing on her,” he said.

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“Police see nothing broken in the place, no marks, and then they offer her an EMT to have a look at her and she says no and I don’t know if it was the next day or a couple of days later, but then there was a bruise. There was a red mark and then there was a brown bruise.”

He continued: “How could someone, anyone, come out with something like that against someone, when there’s no truth to it whatsoever? I’m sure it wasn’t easy for my 14-year-old boy to go to school, you know what I mean?

“With people going, ‘Hey, look at this magazine, man. What, your dad beats up chicks or something?’ Why did he have to go through that? Why did my daughter have to go through that?”

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“We probably shouldn’t be talking about this, but I am worried. I worry about the people that bought it and I worry about her. It’s just not right,” he explained.

Johnny added that he’ll “never stop fighting” against the allegations, and insisted that ultimately the truth “will come out” and his reputation will be restored.

“I will never stop fighting. I’ll never stop. They’d have to f**king shoot me. An episode like this takes time to get over,” he said.

“I want the truth. That’s really my biggest obsession in the world. It’s just the f**king truth.”

Johnny’s full feature in the November issue of British GQ hits newsstands on Thursday 4th October.

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