Johnny Depp has explained to the large courtroom that he misplaced every single cent of $650m he produced at the height of his Pirates of the Caribbean fame and was still left owing $100m in taxes on account of small business professionals he accused of stealing from him.

On what is envisioned to be his last working day of proof in his libel situation towards the Solar, the actor denied he had been violent in direction of his previous wife Amber Heard.

In one particular of the alleged incidents, Depp turned up late to Heard’s 30th birthday social gathering in 2016 after obtaining undesirable news at a conference about his funds and is alleged by her to have later on thrown a magnum of champagne at her and pulled her hair.

Less than cross-examination from his barrister, Depp instructed the court docket on Monday: “I was in the early levels of mastering from my lately acquired new small business supervisor that the former business administrators had absconded with fairly a good deal of my income. They stole my revenue.”

Pressed to say how significantly revenue was allegedly taken, Depp paused and replied that it had been put to him that because the second and 3rd parts of the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean series – “and this is a ludicrous range to have to state” – that he had produced $650m.

“And when I fired them for the right causes I not only dropped the $650m but I was $100m in the hole for the reason that they experienced not compensated the federal government my taxes for a number of a long time,” he said.

At an additional phase in the evidence, sitting down in the witness box, Depp simulated the act of punching in purchase to display what a “haymaker” was. The phrase experienced been utilised by him throughout what he had regarded as a “secret recording” throughout a meeting with Listened to in San Francisco in July 2016, when he could be heard to say “you fucking haymakered me, man”.

He had explained to Heard that “you came about the mattress to fucking start off punching on me”, the court heard.

Questioned on Monday, his barrister asked what a haymaker was, to which Depp replied: “It’s just a kind of wild swinging … variety of a roundhouse punch, as it had been. It is a bit of a wild swing, but successful if it reaches the focus on.”

Before in the early morning, the courtroom was explained to that he could not, as alleged by Heard, have violently struck her in the head simply because he was sporting a solid on his finger after an earlier incident in 2015 when he missing the best of his middle finger in Australia.

Through a cross-evaluation in which Depp’s barrister, David Sherborne, invited him to solution sure or no, he was asked about an alleged incident in Los Angeles on 23 March 2015 when he is stated to have grabbed Heard by the hair with a single hand and hit her “repeatedly in the head with the other”.

The 57-calendar year-old mentioned: “I flew back again from Australia to LA to have operation on the finger and, at that time, they experienced put a pin in it, in the broken bone, the fractured bone, but to no avail.”

He additional that he “ended up having MRSA, it’s fairly a unpleasant disease”.

Depp is suing the Sun’s publisher, News Team Newspapers (NGN), and its govt editor, Dan Wootton, around an report that referred to as him a “wife beater” and referred to “overwhelming evidence” that he had attacked Listened to.

Depp denies at any time hitting Read, 34, who has submitted aspects of 14 events during their marriage when she statements he assaulted her.