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Johnny Depp recalls abusive childhood at the hands of his violent mother and reflects on moment he was axed from Harry Potter movie after being 'dumped' by Hollywood amid ex Amber Heard's allegations of abuse


The Pirates Of The Caribbean star, 62, recalled how his mother Betty Sue Palmer, who died in 2016 aged 81, was volatile, unpredictable and often violent.

Johnny previously spoke about his traumatic childhood when he took the stand in his $100M defamation trial in 2022 against ex-wife Amber Heard , 39, who accused him of abuse, which he strenuously denied (pictured 2015) Johnny and Amber's publicised legal issues began when he filed a libel lawsuit against The Sun's publisher and it's executive editor Dan Wootton over a 2018 article which included claims that he was a 'wife beater' (pictured 2015) But in 2020, the High Court of Justice ruled in favour of The Sun's publisher and Wootton, but Johnny later sued Amber in 2019 for defamation over a 2018 op-ed article she wrote for The Washington Post.

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