Johnny Depp Ordered to Hand Over Medical Records Related to Drug & Alcohol Abuse in Amber Heard Legal Battle

Johnny Depp is now required to hand over documents in his ongoing defamation legal battle with Amber Heard.

The 56-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean actor agreed to hand over “relevant medical records” related to his alcohol and drug use, according to Deadline on Tuesday (October 22).

“By November 15, 2019, Plaintiff must produce all non-privileged, responsive documents requested by Defendant’s document requests,” the judge ordered.

“Mr. Depp cannot seek to litigate the truth of Ms. Heard’s allegations about his violent and abusive behavior while intoxicated, insist on proceeding without a protective order, and then blithely refuse to produce evidence that confirms the truth of those allegations on grounds of relevance and ‘privacy,’” said Amber‘s lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn last month in a memorandum that accompanied the motion to compel.

“Amber Heard no longer feigns any effort to prove her abuse hoax. If she wanted to do that, she and her co-conspirators would stop running from their depositions,” said Johnny‘s lawyer Adam Waldman.

“Instead, Ms. Heard’s #TimesUp legal team have moved on to the tactics their former client Harvey Weinstein perfected – smear the victim with PR innuendo. For the avoidance of doubt, the only person in this case who beat a woman is the self-appointed #MeToo spokesperson Amber Heard, and she was arrested and incarcerated for it. And she savagely beat others, as will be shown at trial.”

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For more about the ongoing case, head to Deadline.com.

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