During Johnny Depp's defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, a lot has come to light.
One of the most infamous claims came from Depp's security guard, Starling Jenkins, who claimed Heard accepted responsibility for a foul surprise left in the Pirates of the Caribbean actor's bed.
Today, Amber Heard vehemently denied leaving 'disgusting' human excrement on the bed she shared with Johnny Depp in their LA penthouse on her 30th birthday, blaming it on their dog Boo, who was ill after eating some of it the star's cannabis stash, according to the High Court.
The superstar actor claims that he decided to divorce Heard after learning about the excrement left on their bed. In her statement submitted to the court, she revealed that the incident is referred to as 'poogate' by her and her friends.
The court has already heard details about the incident on April 20, 2016, and Eleanor Laws QC, Depp’s lawyer, asked Heard in the High Court today: ‘You left human excrement on the bed?’ Heard responded: ‘That’s absolutely disgusting.’
Ms Laws then asked her if any of her friends had left it, to which Heard replied: 'No, of course not. That’s unimaginable to me.’ Heard claimed that the excrement belonged to Depp’s dog Boo, who had a problem with her bowels after she ate some cannabis that belonged to Depp when she was a puppy.
The court also heard that Depp texted Stephen Deuters, his assistant, suggesting a prank in the master bedroom three years earlier. It said: 'Will you squat in front of the door of the master bedroom and leave a giant coil of dookie so that Amber steps in it and thinks that one of the dogs, primarily Boo, has a major problem... It'll be funny!!!'
Hilda Vargas, Depp's housekeeper, testified in court last week about discovering the excrement while cleaning up after the birthday party and photographing it. These were delivered to a member of the actor's security team, who subsequently accused him.
Heard admitted that Vargas cleaned up after the dog when it left excrement around the house, but not in the bedroom.
Heard added: ‘She (Vargas) did clean up after them occasionally but as far as Boo’s accident in the bedroom, when that happened, sometimes on Johnny, I would clean that up because I would never leave that for the housekeeper to clean up.’
When asked about Vargas’s testimony, Heard responded: ‘I don’t know what she’s wrong about but I can’t fathom why an adult would ever do such a thing. I don’t think it’s funny or can be called a prank.
‘I can’t imagine any human being with a sense of humour like that other than Johnny.’
Referring to the discovery of the excrement, Heard added: ‘I was not there though, I left for Coachella. That was my bed, Johnny and I had separated, that was my bed and my bed only.’
Depp, 57, has told the court he was 'convinced' Heard 'or one of her cohort' was involved in the so-called 'defecation incident'.
Heard, 34, claims that one of their two small Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, was responsible for the prank and claims that Depp discussed it years before.
However, the Pirates of the Caribbean star's housekeeper told the High Court that the excrement was 'clearly' human and that the dogs had never previously soiled the bed.
Hilda Vargas, for worked for Depp for more than 30 years, confirmed she had 'never known either dog to defecate in the bed' and that neither could 'jump on to the bed on their own'.
Ms Vargas said in her statement that she took photos of the faeces in the bed, before washing and changing the sheets.
She later told Depp's estate manager, Kevin Murphy what she had found because she was 'so angry'.
Ms Vargas said that on May 24, 2016, she was working at Depp's West Hollywood home when Heard arrived with her friend Raquel Pennington.
The housekeeper claimed Ms Heard called her over and told her the photos she had taken of the faeces in the bed 'had destroyed her marriage'.
Ms Vargas said: 'I was very nervous and so I apologised, even I did not believe that their marital problems were my fault or that I had done anything wrong.
'I also told Ms Heard that the faeces were there, that there was nothing I could do. Ms Heard argued with me saying that there were no faeces in the bed.
'I, again, said that the faeces were there, that they were large and smelled awful. Ms Heard continued to disagree with me, but I wanted to end the conversation as quickly as possible.'
In an explosive witness statement, published as she started her second day of evidence at the High Court in London, Ms Heard said: 'He grabbed her by the wrist and threatened her by talking about the pressure that would be needed to break it if she didn’t admit that she was trying to flirt with me. Johnny and I went back to our trailer cabin where he continued to fight about it. By that point, the amount of cocaine he had taken affected his ability to make rational sense and he went into a manic state'.
Ms Heard the row then spilled into their trailer, which he allegedly 'trashed in a rage'.
She said: 'He broke light fixtures and he broke the frosted glass front of a cabinet, and I think he threw glasses at me. He accused me of being the moral police” and “lesbian camp counsellor” and of hiding his drugs. I had a pretty dress on that I’d dyed pink – and loved and wore all the time: he ripped one of the straps and then ripped it off me at the front, claiming to be searching for the drugs'.
Amber Heard smiled as she arrived at the High Court hand-in-hand with her girlfriend Bianca Butti for her second day in the witness box after making extraordinary claims about her tumultuous marriage to Johnny Depp
