{"id":1484623,"date":"2022-05-19T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484623"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:30:31","slug":"key-amber-heard-witness-ellen-barkin-says-she-briefly-dated-depp-decades-ago-heres-what-shes-said-about-him-and-what-hes-said-about-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-amber-heard-witness-ellen-barkin-says-she-briefly-dated-depp-decades-ago-heres-what-shes-said-about-him-and-what-hes-said-about-her\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Key\u2019 Amber Heard Witness Ellen Barkin Says She Briefly Dated Depp Decades Ago. Here\u2019s What She\u2019s Said About Him, And What He\u2019s Said About Her."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkey-amber-heard-witness-ellen-barkin-says-she-briefly-dated-depp-decades-ago-heres-what-shes-said-about-him-and-what-hes-said-about-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-19-at-2.06.26-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actress Ellen Barkin, a former flame of Johnny Depp, is expected to be a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/why-johnny-depp-believes-actress-ellen-barkin-holding-grudge-against-him-1707978\">key<\/a>\u201d witness for Amber Heard in a $50 million defamation case launched by Depp against the \u201cAquaman\u201d actress.<\/p>\n<p>Barkin said she briefly dated Depp in 1998, more than two decades ago. The pair connected when they starred in \u201cFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u201d together.<\/p>\n<p>Barkin has claimed that there was an \u201cair of violence\u201d around Depp during their relationship, while Depp has suggested \u201cThe Fan\u201d actress is holding a \u201cgrudge\u201d against him for not wanting to be in a serious relationship with her, claiming their relationship was instead one based merely on sex.<\/p>\n<p>During Depp\u2019s libel trial against British tabloid The Sun, Barkin said that while Depp never physically assaulted her, he would yell during their relationship, and one time threw a bottle of wine. Barkin said the bottle did not strike her, nor anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle across the room, the hotel room, in one instance, in Las Vegas, while we were shooting\u00a0\u2018Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,&#8217;\u201d the actress said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/why-johnny-depp-believes-actress-ellen-barkin-holding-grudge-against-him-1707978\">according<\/a> to Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is always an air of violence around him,\u201d Barkin added.<\/p>\n<p>Depp testified during the libel trial that, essentially, Barkin has an axe to grind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sexual element began with Ms. Barkin which lasted for months on and off really because she was making the film I was making at the time, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,\u201d the actor testified, according to the <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"(opens new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8510425\/Ellen-Barkin-accused-violent-holds-grudge-Johnny-Depp-tells-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-describedby=\"external-disclaimer\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted a proper relationship with me and I did not want that,\u201d Depp continued. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel the same about her as she did me and I suppose from that moment on she became very, very angry and since then I have not spoken to Ms. Barkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other women who\u2019ve been romantically linked to Depp have spoken out in his favor, including <span>French singer Vanessa Paradis, who has two children with the actor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Notably, Paradis has publicly called Heard\u2019s accusations \u201cfalse facts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThrough all of these years I\u2019ve known Johnny to be a kind, attentive, generous and non-violent person,\u201d the singer said, The Guardian\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jul\/16\/johnny-depp-did-not-retaliate-abuse-amber-heard-court-told\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOn movie sets the actors, directors and entire crew adore him because he is so humble and respectful to everyone as well as being one of the best actors we\u2019ve seen,\u201d Paradis added. \u201cI have seen that these outrageous statements have been really distressing and also caused damage to his career because unfortunately people have gone on believing these false facts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Ellen Barkin, a former flame of Johnny Depp, is expected to be a \u201ckey\u201d witness for Amber Heard in a $50 million defamation case launched by Depp against the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1484655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}