On Thursday, Depp’s past text messages were presented as evidence, showing the actor referring to his substance abuse and alcohol addiction as his “monster.” Heard’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn showed message exchanges betweenWandaVisionactor Bettany, 50, including one in which the two once joked about killing Heard.

The pair — who co-starred in the the moviesThe Tourist(2010),Transcendence(2014)andMortdecai(2015) — did drugs together “at times,” Depp added.

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Texts from June 2013 showed the two joking about how to murder Heard, with Depp writing, “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f— her her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead.” Bettany replied, “My thoughts entirely! Lets be CERTAIN before we pronounce her a witch.”

Reps for Bettany didn’t immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Actor Johnny Depp stands in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., . Actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse

Later, when asked if he has done drugs like cocaine with musician Manson, Depp, 58, said, “We’ve had cocaine together maybe a couple of times,” and joked, “I once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so that he would stop talking so much.”

In his witness testimony earlier this week, Depp admitted seeing his past messages was embarrassing and explained that when writing he sometimes uses “dark humor” to express himself.

Bettany has previously expressed that itwas “embarrassing” to havehis texts made public when they were used in the U.K. libel case Depp brought againstThe Sun, which he lost. Bettany clarified that he “didn’t know Johnny when he was married to” Heard.

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“I knew him before. But we hadn’t spoken for years. During the marriage I didn’t know them. So I wasn’t around for any of that,” Bettany added to U.K.‘sThe Timesin February, after saying, “We live in a world without context.”

Reps for Manson didn’t immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Actor Johnny Depp listens as he testifies in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., . Actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse

About the headline, “tragically, it’s true,” Rottenborn told the courtroom. “Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp. … You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered. You’ll hear that straight from her. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. It happened.”

Shortly after, Rottenborn listed a time when Depp allegedly had a three-day, alcohol-fueled blackoutwhile in Australia in 2015toward the end of their marriage, when Depp “abused and sexually assaulted Amber, all because she had the courage to confront him about his drinking.”

Heard and Depp, who met while making the 2011 movieThe Rum Diaryand wed in 2015, broke up in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled theirdivorceout of court in August 2016.

Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.

source: people.com