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A recording of Johnny Depp begging ex-wife Amber Heard to ‘cut him’ while he wielded a knife in front of her was played to the High Court today.

The audio recording taken by Amber Heard was yet another piece of evidence in her claims that he abused her on 14 separate occasions. 

In the clip, Depp can be heard saying: ‘My f***ing knife.

Cut me. You want to cut me?’ He later adds: ‘Cut me. If you don’t, I will.’ 

On the stand today, Depp was quizzed about the recording by QC Sasha Wass, who is defending The Sun after the actor sued the newspaper for libel for calling him a ‘wife beater’. 

Commenting on the muffled audio dating back to July 2016 – and recorded in a hotel a month before their divorce – Ms Wass said: ‘You’re threatening to cut yourself in front of Ms Heard and you’re actually holding a knife at the time.’

Depp said: ‘I was asking her to cut me…

I felt that was what she was doing anyway.’ 

The 57-year-old actor is being cross-examined on the fourth day of his libel trial at the High Court in London, where he is facing questions about alleged assault against his ex-wife in LA in 2016. 

Depp today accused Amber Heard of drinking two bottles of wine a night, chopping up lines of cocaine for herself, secretly filming him, having an affair and irrationally flying off the handle if he did not feed her ‘need for attention’. 

Other developments in court today included: 

• Depp was accused of throwing a phone at Amber Heard and calling her ‘Amber Turd’ after she allegedly defecated in their bed after a blazing row on her 30th birthday party;
• He showed up two hours late to the birthday party after receiving some ‘bad financial news’ and retired to bed after her guests had gone instead of celebrating with her;
• She accuses him of throwing a magnum of champagne at her and pulling her hair in the ensuing row;
• The next day, Depp discovered someone – he believed Heard – had defecated in their marital bed;
• Defecation made him settle on divorce before Heard accused him of throwing a phone at her in a later row;
• Trans activist iO Tillet Wright and fighter Raquel Pennington were present during alleged phone throwing;
• All three claim Depp assaulted Heard in May 2016 incident; he has accused them of ‘choreographed hoax’;
• Depp threatened to ‘slice off’ Elon Musk’s ‘d***’ in rant to Lady Gaga’s ex-fiance, High Court heard;
• 57-year-old actor accused Heard of having affair with SpaceX founder, which billionaire Musk denies.  

The court was shown a photograph of Heard’s bruised face after she claims Depp hurled a phone at her face as they argued over the so-called ‘defecation incident’ a month after the Hollywood legend decided to divorce his wife over the soiling of their bed.

The actor told the court he believes that Heard, 34, was responsible for the defecation but under questioning admitted that it could have been her ‘crass’ trans activist friend iO Tillet Wright.

He arrived at Heard’s birthday party on April 21, 2016 around two hours late after receiving some bad news about his financial affairs from his accountants and smoking cannabis to relieve his stress.