The Aquaman actress, 33, opens up about her violent tantrums in a series of taped conversations the estranged couple made in 2015 as they tried to talk through their marriage problems.

‘I’m sorry that I didn’t, uh, uh, hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you, it was not punching you. Babe, you’re not punched,’ Heard tells Depp, attempting to downplay her outburst the previous evening.

‘I don’t know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you’re fine, I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you.’

Heard – an ambassador for women’s rights and outspoken domestic violence advocate – taunts Depp for fleeing the late night dust-up, telling him: ‘You are such a baby. Grow the f**k up Johnny.’

She warns the 56-year-old Oscar nominee: ‘You poke an animal enough, it is eventually, it doesn’t matter how friendly it is, it’s not cool.’

The troubling episode is one of numerous clashes the couple argue over during the informal two-hour ‘therapy’ session recorded consensually on Heard’s cell phone.

As part of Depp’s $50 million defamation case against Heard, he included images of his own bruised and battered face (left and right ) following Heard’s alleged attacks

There’s a veiled reference to a possible incident in Australia where Depp suffered a severed finger one month into their marriage. Depp claims he severed his finger because Heard was enraged she was asked to sign a post-nuptial agreement, that she threw bottles at him.

He claimed one of those bottles hit a marble countertop and exploded, ripping off the tip of his finger in the process (pictured)

It’s understood there are several more tapes out there, each promising further bombshells as the former lovers trade blood-curdling allegations of domestic violence in a civil defamation case brought last year by Depp.

‘I left last night. Honestly, I swear to you because I just couldn’t take the idea of more physicality, more physical abuse on each other,’ an exasperated Depp pleads in the recording.

‘Because had we continued it, it would have gotten f**king bad. And baby, I told you this once. I’m scared to death we are a f**king crime scene right now.’

But Heard – who filed for divorce in May 2016 accusing Depp of beating her during their toxic 18-month marriage – warns: ‘I can’t promise you I won’t get physical again. God I f**king sometimes get so mad I lose it.’

Depp filed his $50 million defamation suit in Virginia after Heard penned an op-ed for the Washington Post detailing her experiences as an alleged domestic violence victim.

 Baby, I told you this once. I’m scared to death we are a f**king crime scene right now.

Johnny Depp to Amber Heard

‘I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out,’ she wrote in the December 2018 article, which didn’t mention the Pirates of the Caribbean actor by name.

Depp claimed, nonetheless, that it implicated him as the abuser, damaging his reputation and causing him to lose his prized role of Captain Jack Sparrow.

His suit says he’s the victim of an ‘elaborate hoax’ instigated by Heard to generate positive publicity and advance her career.

‘Ms. Heard is not a victim of domestic abuse; she is a perpetrator,’ it claims.

‘She hit, punched and kicked me. She also repeatedly and frequently threw objects into my body and head, including heavy bottles, soda cans, burning candles, television remote controls and paint thinner cans, which severely injured me.’

Heard responded with a lurid 300-page filing of her own, cataloging the ‘horrific’ abuse she claims to have suffered at Depp’s hands, describing him as ‘the monster’ and recalling many of the allegations she made during their divorce.

The filing included photos of bruises and scars, clumps of hair apparently torn from Heard’s head and pictures of smashed up furniture to illustrate the violence she was allegedly subjected to after hooking up with Depp, her co-star in The Rum Diary, back in 2011.

Amber Heard is pictured during her 2016 deposition where she described punching Depp in the face in attempt to stop him from hurting her sister, she said

Heard cataloged the ‘horrific’ abuse she claims to have suffered at Depp’s hands, describing him as ‘the monster’ and recalling many of the allegations she made during their divorce. The filing included photos of bruises and scars (left and right)

This is one of the clumps of hair left on the ground after Depp tore it from Heard during a December 2015 fight, she claims in legal filings

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Since then, the star has quietly retreated to Spain to live her life with her daughter Oonagh Paige, who turned three years old earlier this month, but is making time for celebrations of her own.

Amber detailed the difficult aftermath she faced due to the trial and the response to it in her statement, following the “very difficult decision” to settle.

“It’s important for me to say that I never chose this,” she wrote, adding: “I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways women are re-victimised when they come forward.”

She said: “Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to,” explaining: “I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.”

– Johnny Depp donates Amber Heard’s $1 million settlement money to five different charities