During a slander case against Amber Heard, Johnny Depp reportedly delivered a joke about using drugs with Marilyn Manson, causing the courtroom to erupt in laughter.

When challenged about his drug use, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor was cross-examined by Heard’s attorneys.

Depp’s lawyer, Ben Rottenborn, questioned whether he ever gave Marilyn Manson a drug to make him stop talking so much, and Depp answered that he “once gave Marilyn Manson a pill to make him stop talking so much.”

“Would you ever drink whiskey first thing in the morning?”
Depp said playfully, “I mean, every hour is happy hour.”

Meanwhile, Depp has denied ever physically or sexually abusing Heard, claiming that it was Heard who assaulted him violently.

Depp also claimed that a 2018 op-ed piece she penned in The Washington Post referring to herself as a “public figure symbolising domestic abuse” had harmed his career.

According to Depp, the piece unfairly tarnished his Hollywood reputation, costing him the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.