Depp said his finger was severed during a fight with Heard about a month after their 2015 wedding when she flew out to Australia to visit him as he filmed the fifth installment in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
Insider previously reported that Depp told the court that he had asked his lawyers to discuss a post-nuptial agreement with Heard. Depp said Heard arrived in Australia "very upset" about how the meeting with Depp's lawyers had been conducted, feeling that one of the lawyers she met with had been "rude and dismissive."
Depp said he was staying in a large house in Australia, and remembered locking himself in "at least nine bedrooms and bathrooms" that day "as she was banging on the doors and screaming obscenities and wanting to have a physical altercation."
At that point, Depp said he had been sober from drinking for some time, but noted the stress of the situation caused him to go to the bar in the house and pour himself a few shots of vodka. He continued that Heard followed him to the bar and started yelling at him for drinking and proceeded to throw the bottle of vodka at him. Depp said the bottle flew past his face and smashed on the ground behind him.
Depp said he then went back to the bar, picked up a larger bottle of vodka, and continued to pour himself another drink. He said Heard picked up the second bottle and threw it at him, and that time it made contact with his hand, slicing off his middle right finger.
"It made contact and it shattered everywhere," he said. "I honestly didn't feel the pain at first, what I felt was heat and I felt as if something were dripping down my hand. Then I looked down and realized that the tip of my finger had been severed and I was looking directly at my bones sticking out and the meaty portion of the inside of your finger."
Depp later testified that visual effects artists added a "normal finger" to his hand for the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film and he lied to doctors about how the tip of his right middle finger was cut off rather than telling them Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.
"I didn't want to disclose that it had been Ms. Heard that had thrown a vodka bottle at me and then took my finger off," he said on the stand. "I didn't want to get her in trouble. I tried to just keep things as copacetic and easy as possible for everyone. I didn't want to put her into that mix."