Johnny Depp’s bodyguard stated on Monday that weed and cocaine make the actor “chill” and “tremendous mellow.”
Throughout a digital testimony within the trial between Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp’s bodyguard, Travis McGivern was requested concerning the actor’s use of various substances, equivalent to marijuana and cocaine and the way his demeanor modified when utilizing the substances.
“Chill, for a scarcity of a greater phrase. Mellow…simply tremendous mellow,” McGivern stated when requested about Depp’s demeanor when utilizing marijuana. When requested about Depp’s demeanor when utilizing cocaine, McGivern stated, “the identical..I really feel prefer it ranges him out. I have not observed any distinction when he is used it.” McGivern stated throughout his digital testimony he labored as Depp’s private safety guard for a number of years and first met Heard in 2013.
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The feedback by McGivern come through the fourth week of testimony’s through the trial between Depp, the previous star of such motion pictures as Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean motion pictures, and Heard.
Depp is suing Heard for an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Submit in 2018, wherein she mentioned experiences of home violence throughout her marriage with the actor from 2015 to 2017. Whereas Depp was by no means named by Heard within the op-ed, he claims that it broken his profession as an actor. Then again, Heard is countersuing Depp for $100 million.
Throughout the listening to final week, one other one in all Depp’s safety guards additionally testified and spoke concerning the actor’s use of various substances, equivalent to marijuana and alcohol.
“He is bought a really excessive tolerance for any substance,” Depp’s bodyguard, Malcolm Connolly, stated final week. “I believe Jack Sparrow is extra drunk than Johnny Depp.”
Depp is understood for enjoying the fictional Sparrow within the Pirates of the Caribbean motion pictures.
A video clip from the listening to final week confirmed Depp laughing after the remarks by Connolly.
On Monday, McGivern additionally spoke concerning the occasions he witnessed verbal altercations between Depp and Heard, in addition to incidents the place he noticed Heard spit on Depp and throw a can of Pink Bull at him. “They had been tremendous loving, joyful after which the subsequent evening they might argue,” McGivern stated.
McGivern continued, “At that time, within the nook of my eye, I noticed a fist and an arm come throughout my proper shoulder…I heard and noticed a closed fist contact Mr. Depp on the left aspect of his face.”
McGivern went on to say that after he was in a position to escort Depp out of the condominium the place the incident occurred, the actor expressed anger together with his bodyguard for permitting him to get punched.
Newsweek reached out to reps for Depp for remark.
