EXPLAINER: Johnny Depp's wild testimony, cross-examination

The trial has turned into a spectacle in which Johnny Depp has testified about everything from taking pills as a child to a near mental breakdown. Photo: AFP

For three days, Johnny Depp has been testifying in a libel trial that, at least in theory, is about whether Amber Heard defamed him in a 2018 newspaper op-ed.

The trial has turned into a spectacle in which Depp has testified about everything from taking pills as a child to a near mental breakdown in which the actor said he used his severed finger to write on the walls in his own blood to recount his ex-wife’s alleged lies.