A longtime friend of Depp’s, Josh Richman, revealed the shocking allegations in a declaration entered into the ongoing Virginia defamation case.
"One of the few specific incidents we knew in particular raised my and his other friends' concern,” - “We, and certainly I knew from Johnny that prior to the wedding that on a night they had an argument, Johnny recounted to me, Amber went into the bathroom, and came out with a Kleenex with red on it, saying he had given her a bloody nose. But after the incident, he retrieved the Kleenex, which he says he still has to this day."
Richman shockingly declared: "Amber had placed red nail polish on the Kleenex."
"It was incidents like this, of which his friends knew only a fraction, that made us concerned for his welfare in this marriage. Anyone who has known Johnny for a long time, or even briefly, would notice he is a uniquely chivalrous, kind, and thoughtful person, who treats every human being the same, is always helping people and doesn't like to harm even the feeling of other people."
In the document, the actor's longtime friend then detailed a “violent” incident from the couple's 2015 wedding:
"The day before the wedding, Amber Heard's friend and member of her wedding party, iO Tillett Wright, violently assaulted another member of her wedding party, Rocky Pennington, during an argument about wedding details and who was essentially going to assume the role of the wedding planner and carry out Amber's frivolous missives,"
Richman accused Heard’s friends of acting a “ bunch of spoiled children,” and believe they were “acting out this charade of a wedding at great expense to Johnny, whom we all knew was more than coerced and shamed into proceeding with Amber's demand to be married before Johnny was to depart shortly to film abroad.
Heard's attorney, Robbie Kaplan: “No amount of self-serving leaks or irrelevant statements from friends of Mr. Depp can change the underlying facts of this case. Ms. Heard looks forward to winning her case in court.”
Depp's attorney Adam Waldman: “Amber Heard’s #TimesUp lawyer terms it “irrelevant” that her primary witness in an abuse hoax case violently assaulted her other primary witness. She calls evidence that her client’s abuse hoax repertoire now includes Kleenex and nail polish a ‘self-serving leak.’ And she assures us these latest disclosures, piled atop the growing mountain of audio, video, photographic, and testimonial evidence, “will not change the underlying facts of this case.” But those are the underlying facts of this case.”