One that I thought was normal until a certain age,' Depp said.ĭepp detailed his struggles with substance abuse and recovery during testimony on April 20. She had the ability to be as cruel as anyone can be with all of us,'ĭepp testified that the violent home life he was brought up in taught him to never recreate the same kind of abuse in his own home later in life. 'In our house we were never exposed to any type of safety or security, the only thing to do was stay out of the line of fire,' he told lawyers from the stand. Speaking in a low voice Depp gave a measured but vivid description of what it was like living in a home where he, his three siblings, and his father were terrorized by his volatile and violent mother. The Pirates of the Caribbean star detailed a childhood defined by abuse at the hands of his mother when he took the stand in his $100 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard on Tuesday. His privileged life as an A-lister is a world away from his troubled upbringing as a high school dropout with an abusive and suicidal mother, but now Johnny Depp is telling the whole world how he went from small town Kentucky to Hollywood.
