Johnny Depp‘s longtime buddy and neighbor recalled coming household and looking at wine functioning down the hallway wall outside of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star’s penthouse, in accordance to a report.

A witness statement of Depp’s pal of 40 decades, Isaac Baruch, was examine out in London’s High Courtroom Friday at the “Edward Scissorhands” actor’s libel demo towards the Sun for allegedly unfairly calling him a “wife beater” in a 2018 story primarily based on Heard’s accusations.

Baruch, who lived rent free in one of Depp’s penthouses at the time, claimed he was returning property on the evening of May possibly 21, 2016 — the exact working day that Heard and Depp allegedly got into a violent fight — when he observed broken glass and wine in the hallway outside of Depp’s home, in accordance to a report by the Mirror.

“Immediately exiting the elevator and at the beginning of the hallway that sales opportunities to the 5 penthouses on this ground that Mr Depp owned, we recognized that there was broken glass on the floor from a damaged sconce that hung on the wall,” in accordance to Baruch’s statement, which was browse out in the courtroom.

“We then proceeded to round the corner of the hallway and stopped in entrance of Penthouse 1, for the reason that there was a significant puddle of spilt wine together with splashed wine operating down the wall directly in front of the door,” the assertion continued.

“I claimed to my good friend anything like: ‘It appears to be like like anyone got hammered, probably these fellas had a party’, that means Ms Read ‘s close friends Raquel Pennington and her fiancé Josh Drew, who lived in Penthouse 1,” Baruch mentioned in the statement.

Then Baruch explained when he asked Drew what occurred, as he came out of the condominium, “he extremely seriously replied with words and phrases to the result of, ‘we variety of experienced a tough day’.”

Baruch, testified Friday that pics of Heard’s bruised encounter had been “phoney baloney.”