Johnny Depp has apologised for some of the language that he used in texts about his ex-wife Amber Heard as he said that he was 'ashamed' about what he wrote

Johnny Depp 'ashamed' of brutal texts about Amber Heard as he apologises

Johnny Depp has apologised when questioned about the derogatory language he used about ex-wife Amber Heard in text messages.

The 58-year-old actor had previously heard texts he sent about Amber, 35, read out in court as his $50 million libel trial against his ex continues in a Virginia court.

Speaking about the messages, Johnny told the jury: 'I am ashamed of some of the references made.

“I’m embarrassed that at the time the heat of the moment, the heat of the pain that I was feeling went to dark places.”

Earlier court testimony showed Depp repeatedly called Heard a “c***” and once texted his friend he hoped her “rotting corpse was decomposing in the f****** trunk of a Honda Civic.”

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“That c*** ruined such a cool life we had for a while,” Depp told friend Isaac Baruch in a 2016 text read aloud in court by Heard’s attorney Elaine Bredehoft.

“Pain has to be dealt with humour, something dark, very dark humour,” Depp said during his testimony on Tuesday.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star told how he took drugs before he met Heard, and he detoxed while he was in a relationship with her.

He said his issues began at the age of 11 when he would fetch his mother her “nerve pills” and would take one himself.

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“I’d done pretty much all the drugs I was aware of by the time I was 15 years old,” he testified.

“It’s never been for the party effect,” Depp said, “It’s been for trying to numb the things inside that can plague someone who has experienced trauma.”

The actor slammed Heard’s previously made comments about his drinking and drug use, saying they were “grossly embellished” and mostly “plainly false.”

“I think it was an easy target for her to hit,” Depp told the jury. “I am not some maniac who needs to be high or loaded all the time.”

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He said he has not taken any drugs for fear of going through the “hell” of detox again.

Depp then told the jury how he met Heard when she auditioned five times for a role in The Rum Diary movie.

He said there was uncertainty about her ability to fit the part but he felt she was right.

Depp then told how they first kissed in his trailer on set and although she wanted to say he refused to allow her. Get in touch with us atwebcelebs@mirror.co.ukor call us direct 0207 29 33033.