Johnny Depp: Relationship with Amber deteriorated after I took my own boots off

‘No, no, no, that's my job.’ Johnny Depp tells how Amber Heard lost it when he broke her ‘rules of routine’ by taking off his own boots rather than waiting for her nightly ritual of removing them for him

• Johnny Depp, 58, said he took his own boots off rather than wait for wife Amber Heard to do it because she was on the phone
• 'I had broken her rules of routine,' he said. ''Once you notice something like that you start to notice other tidbits that come out.
• Within 18 months, he said, Heard, 35, had 'become a different person' 

Johnny Depp told a court of the moment his marriage to actress Amber Heard fell apart – because he took his own boots off when he got home.

Amber, he said, had a routine that she would get him a glass of wine and remove his footwear as soon as he got home. 

But one day she was on the phone, so he took his own boots off rather than wait.  

'I worked quite a lot and when I came home from work I’d come in the house and she’d sit me down and give me a glass of wine and take my boots off and set them to the side,' he told the court in Fairfax, Virginia.

'I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life. I never experienced that and it became a regular thing, kind of routine.

Depp got emotional as he talked about how good his relationship with Amber Heard was at the beginning but how it fell apart after he took his own boots off

'No, no, no that’s my job. You don’t do that, I do that,' Amber allegedly told Johnny after he had removed his own footwear

'One night I came home and she was on the phone, I took my boots off, suddenly Miss Heard approached with this look on her face, she just said what did you just do? What did you do?'

He asked her what she meant and she replied: 'You took your boots off.'

'Yes I did, he said he told her. You were busy.'

But Amber told him: 'No, no, no that’s my job. You don’t do that, I do that. 

'Then she said "Let me get you a glass of wine." I did take pause of course, the fact she was visibly shaken or upset that I had broken her rules of routine.

'Once you notice something like that you start to notice other tidbits that come out.

'Then within a year a year and a half she had become another person"

He said in the beginning his relationship with Heard, who he met on the set of the 2011 movie The Rum Diary, was 'too good to be true'.

'She was attentive, she was loving, she was smart, she was funny, she was understanding. We had many things in common, certainly blues music, literature. 

'For that year, or year and a half it was amazing.'

‘From the beginning of our relationship for a good year and a half she was wonderful and then things just started to change or things started to reveal themselves is a better way to put it.'

He said he called her Slim and she called him Steve after the Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart characters in the movie To Have and Have Not.

He explained that he was the craggy Bogart and she was 'this beautiful creature, this stunning creature,' the much-younger Bacall.

He said it was during a kissing scene in The Rum Diary that he realized he had feelings for Heard, saying he 'felt something he shouldn't be feeling.'

She later went to his trailer and they kissed again. 

Depp and Heard called each other Steve and Slim after the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall  characters in the movie To Have and Have Not

Johnny Depp said ex-wfe Amber Heard always insisted she take his boots off and pour him a glass of wine when he got home

Heard and Depp in the movie The Rum Diary where they met. Johnny said he 'felt something he should not have felt' during a kissing scene in the movie

He admitted that he got hooked on the painkiller Roxycontin – which he called Roxies – after getting sciatica from throwing a chair through a window in Pirates of the Caribbean 4.

 ‘It’s not like you take those pills to get high, you’re taking those pills to get well or better because if you’re without the pill your body will start to go into withdrawal,' he said.

Depp shook his head and smiled when asked if he had done opiates since detoxing, telling the jury: ‘No I can’t.

‘Once you’ve been bit you’ll be bit again.'  

Depp and Heard met on the set of the 2011 movie The Rum Diary, turning up on the red carpet together for its London premiere

Amber Heard and her attorney Elaine Bredehoft during the trial on Tuesday. Heard is countersuing Depp for $100 million claiming he libeled her when he said she lied in a Washington Post op-ed

Attorneys for Heard have argued she told the truth and that her opinion was protected as free speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment