Actor Amber Heard admits to 'hitting' ex-husband and Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp by pelting him with pots, pans and vases in an explosive audio confession obtained exclusively by DailyMail.
The Aquaman star 33, opens up about her violent tantrums in a series of taped conversations the estranged couple made in 2015 as they tried to talk through their marriage problems.
'I'm sorry that I didn't, uh, uh, hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you, it was not punching you. Babe, you're not punched,' Heard tells Depp, attempting to downplay her outburst the previous evening.
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'I don't know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you're fine, I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you.'
Heard - an ambassador for women's rights and outspoken domestic violence advocate - taunts Depp for fleeing the late night dust-up, telling him, 'You are such a baby. Grow up Johnny.'
She also warns the 56-year-old Oscar nominee, 'You poke an animal enough, it is eventually, it doesn't matter how friendly it is, it's not cool.'
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The troubling episode is one of numerous clashes the couple argue over during the informal two-hour 'therapy' session recorded consensually on Heard's cell phone and supplied to DailyMail.
Heard, who filed for divorce in May 2016 accusing Depp of beating her during their toxic 18-month marriage - warns, 'I can't promise you I won't get physical again. But sometimes get so mad I lose it.'
Depp filed his $50 million defamation suit after Heard penned an op-ed for the Washington Post detailing her experiences as an alleged domestic violence victim.
"I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out," she wrote in the December 2018 article, which didn't mention the Pirates of the Caribbean actor by name.
Depp claimed, nonetheless, that it implicated him as the abuser, damaging his reputation and causing him to lose his prized role of Captain Jack Sparrow.
His suit says he's the victim of an 'elaborate hoax' instigated by Heard to generate positive publicity and advance her career. "Ms. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse; she is a perpetrator," it claims.
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"She hit, punched and kicked me. She also repeatedly and frequently threw objects into my body and head, including heavy bottles, soda cans, burning candles, television remote controls and paint thinner cans, which severely injured me."
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Heard responded with a lurid 300-page filing of her own, cataloging the 'horrific' abuse she claims to have suffered at Depp's hands, describing him as 'the monster' and recalling many of the allegations she made during their divorce.
The filing included photos of bruises and scars, clumps of hair apparently torn from Heard's head and pictures of smashed up furniture to illustrate the violence she was allegedly subjected to after hooking up with Depp, her co-star in The Rum Diary, back in 2011.
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