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Johnny Depp says he was close to having a nervous breakdown after his finger was sliced off by a vodka bottle during an argument with former wife Amber Heard. The actor recounted in graphic detail an alleged incident which took place in Australia in March 2015, as he gave evidence at the US defamation trial on Wednesday. Mr Depp is suing Ms Heard for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post, which his lawyers say falsely implies he physically and sexually abused her. The actor has testified that during their relationship Ms Heard had a “need for conflict”and was often abusive and violent towards him. The actress is also due to give evidence during the trial at Fairfax County District Court, which is set to last a total of seven weeks.

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00:00For me to have taken MDMA would have been a waste of the drug.
00:09If you understand what I mean, it would have been essentially taking someone else's high
00:14because it wouldn't have an effect on me.
00:19So how many drugs did you actually take that day?
00:25The day of our wedding?
00:26Yes.
00:28I smoked marijuana and I don't remember drinking.
00:40I don't remember that I was drinking then.
00:50She walked up to me and reached and grabbed the bottle of vodka.
00:57And then just kind of stood back and hurled it at me.
01:04I honestly didn't feel the pain at first at all.
01:08I felt no pain whatsoever.
01:09What I felt was I felt heat.
01:16I felt heat and I felt as if something were dripping down my hand.
01:24And then I looked down and realized that the tip of my finger had been severed.
01:37I think that I went into some sort of, I don't know what a nervous breakdown feels like.
01:48But that's probably the closest that I've ever been.
01:52I didn't, nothing made sense.
01:57And I knew in my mind and in my heart, this is, this is not life.
02:06This is not life.
02:10The doctor asked me what happened.
02:14And I lied to him.
02:16I said that I had smashed it in these large accordion doors that it got caught in the accordion doors.
02:27Why would you lie about that?
02:33I lied because I did not, I didn't feel, I didn't want to disclose that it was.
02:46I didn't want to, I didn't want to disclose that it had been misheard, that it had thrown the, thrown
02:53a vodka bottle.
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