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  "description": "Day 7 consisted entirely of Rottenborn's continued cross-examination of Johnny Depp. The session opened with 2013 texts to actor Paul Bettany proposing gruesome violence against Heard, establishing a pattern of misogynistic language. Rottenborn then attacked Depp's sobriety narrative: texts describing a blackout on the May 2014 Boston-to-LA flight directly contradicted Depp's claim of eighteen months clean before the Australia incident. A February 2015 cast insurance form on which Depp denied illegal drug use was juxtaposed with contemporaneous texts requesting cocaine and ecstasy. Depp's assertion that Heard coined the term \"monster\" collapsed when Rottenborn produced earlier texts to Elton John, Jerry Judge, and Dr. Kipper in which Depp used the word himself. Post-injury texts describing Depp as having \"chopped off\" his own finger raised additional questions about his direct-examination account of the Australia wound.",
  "path": "/trial/day/7/",
  "publishedAt": "2022-04-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:vd3vzujxkxsthkswrc2zzupm/site.standard.publication/dvh",
  "title": "Day 7 — Depp v. Heard",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:18.946Z"
}