Johnny Depp’s tumultuous relationship with Amber Heard and subsequent high-profile defamation trial is a long-gone factor of the previous — however you higher imagine it nonetheless lives rent-free within the well-known actor’s head. “I used to be like a crash take a look at dummy for MeToo,” he lamented throughout a prolonged and candid interview with the Sunday Occasions about what his life had been like since his public trial with Heard. 

In accordance with Depp, the fallout from the scandal not solely price him performing jobs and his fortune, it price him a few of his friendships too. “I will let you know what hurts. There are folks, and I am considering of three, who did me soiled. These folks had been at my children’ events. Throwing them within the air,” he recalled. “And, look, I perceive individuals who couldn’t arise [for me], as a result of essentially the most horrifying factor to them was making the fitting selection,” he acknowledged. Because it seems, there’s really a fairly prolonged listing of celebrities who’re now not mates with Depp, together with his former girlfriend, Ellen Barkin, his childhood buddy, musician Bruce Witkin, and even his personal agent, Tracey Jacobs.

Because the outdated saying goes, an ex is an ex for a motive. Sadly, for Johnny Depp, this adage could not be extra true because it pertains to his former flame, Ellen Barkin, with whom he was romantically concerned in 1994. In 2019, Barkin bought very candid about their previous relationship when she testified in opposition to him in his 2020 libel case in opposition to The Solar. “There may be all the time an air of violence round him,” Barkin stated in her deposition testimony, per Newsweek. “He’s a yeller. He’s verbally abusive.” However that is not all. She additionally recounted a time when Depp threw a bottle at her in a lodge room. It needs to be famous, nonetheless, that Depp denied Barkin’s allegations. As a substitute, he accused her of harboring an outdated grudge in opposition to him. “She needed greater than a relationship, she needed a correct relationship with me and I didn’t need that,” he alleged per the Each day Mail. 

Alas, Barkin wasn’t completed but. In 2022, she supplied one other deposition in Depp’s defamation trial in opposition to Amber Heard, and as soon as once more, she did not have the nicest issues to say about Depp. “He is only a jealous man. Controlling,” Barkin testified about her relationship with Depp, per Vainness Truthful. “‘The place are you going? Who had been you going with? What did you do final evening?’ I had a scratch on my again as soon as that bought him very, very offended, as a result of he insisted it got here from me having intercourse with an individual who wasn’t him.” Yikes.

On Could 19, musician Bruce Witkin despatched shockwaves when his personal previous, pre-recorded deposition in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial in opposition to Amber Heard was performed in court docket. Witkin stated he had thought of Depp his greatest buddy and even like a brother to him “till about 4 years in the past.” Within the deposition by way of COURT TV, Witkin denied ever seeing Depp or Heard abuse one another, however he did say that he noticed bruises on Amber, noting that “simply appeared like she was grabbed.” Witkin additionally alleged that he had witnessed Depp abuse alcohol and medicines, his propensity for jealousy, and even opined that he believed Depp had some “deep-rooted points.” In accordance with Witkin, when Heard was filming with different males, Depp tended to “work himself up,” however Witkin famous that he believed “loads of it was in his head and never in actuality.”

Witkin went on to testify that Depp despatched him a textual content message, whereby he basically accused Witkin of not being a loyal buddy. “I began to really feel a distance and 2017. We had a gig, and I noticed him. However he was actually form of distant and form of f***ed up,” Witkin recalled, per Legislation&Crime. “And like, he wrote me this bizarre textual content saying I stabbed him within the again and badmouth him, and I am like, ‘What are you speaking about?’ He would not clarify it. And just about I have not seen him since 2018.”

Sadly, Johnny Depp is not even on talking phrases along with his former longtime agent, Tracey Jacobs. “My loyalty is the very last thing anyone may query. I used to be with one agent for 30 years, however she spoke in court docket about how tough I used to be,” he revealed throughout a June interview with the Sunday Occasions. 

Throughout a pre-recorded deposition for Depp’s defamation trial in opposition to Amber Heard, Jacobs — whom Depp fired in October 2016 — claimed that Depp’s profession was in a “downward spiral” as a consequence of his personal “unprofessional habits,” together with being late to skilled obligations and more and more erratic habits as a consequence of medication and alcohol by way of COURT TV. “His star had dimmed as a consequence of it getting tougher to get him jobs. Folks had been speaking. The query was on the market about his habits,” she testified. She was additionally adamant that Depp was really the one who was responsible of severing so a lot of his private relationships. “He terminated everybody in his life, and I used to be alongside for the journey, I assume,” she declared, in response to the Each day Mail.