Elon Musk, a $160,000 wine bill, and a poop confession: 12 highlights from week 3 of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial

Monday started with Depp finishing his own testimony in the case, spending a total of four days on the stand.

Depp faced intense grilling over how he severed his finger during a fight with Heard in Australia in 2015. Depp said the injury was the result of Heard smashing a vodka bottle on his hand, while Heard has claimed in court documents that Depp injured it himself by slamming a plastic phone. Depp tried to strengthen his story on Monday, saying he never would have risked injury to his hand as a guitar player.

"There's no way I would cut my own finger off to ruin this beautiful opportunity to start playing guitar," Depp said, referencing the fact that he was about to go on tour with his band, The Hollywood Vampires, a few months after the Australia fight.

Experts told Insider that Depp performed well on the stand, coming across as "vulnerable" and "credible." But they said he has an uphill battle to victory due to the multiple audio and video clips of the couple fighting aired during the trial.

"It's becoming increasingly more difficult to show that there was no abuse," Law & Crime Network host Jesse Weber told Insider. "It's becoming increasingly more difficult to show that she lied in that 2018 article."

Part of Depp's defamation case is that Heard, in publishing a Washington post op-ed describing herself as a victim of domestic violence, cost him movie roles. Following the publication of the op-ed, Warner Bros. announced he would no longer be in the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise and Disney put the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie series on ice.

In his testimony, Depp talked about how he crafted the role of Captain Jack Sparrow throughout the five "Pirates" movies, rewriting his lines and developing plot points.

"Captain Jack Sparrow was a character that I had built from the ground up and was something that I put a lot of — you put a lot of yourself into characters," he said.

Depp testified he had planned to make sure the characters should have a "proper goodbye" before the series ended, rather than stopping short after the fifth movie.

"And there's a way to end a franchise like that," Depp testified on Monday. "And I thought the characters should have a way out, to end the franchise on a very good note. And I planned on continuing until it was time to stop."

While shooting the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie in Australia, Depp and Heard lived on an island house. It was there, the night of April 7, 2015, that the couple got into a dramatic fight that ended with part of Depp's right middle finger cut off.

How that happened exactly — Depp said Heard threw a glass vodka bottle at him; Heard said Depp did it himself while intoxicated — is for the jury to decide. But after Depp was whisked off to the hospital, his employees needed to hunt around the house for his fingertip.

Depp's house manager, Ben King, testified on Monday about finding it in a bloody paper towel near the house's marble bar, which had a chunk taken out of it and was surrounded by broken glass, empty cans, and "bodily fluids."

"There was a scrunched-up piece of kitchen paper with lots of blood on it," Ben King, the manager, testified using a British term for paper towels. "So I thought that was probably a pretty good place to look."

Depp's legal team sought to taint the credibility of Heard's physical assault claims related to a fight the couple had at their downtown Los Angeles loft in May 2016. A few days after the fight, Heard showed up in court with an apparently bruised face, to petition for a restraining order against Depp.

Heard claimed in court documents that Depp hit her face with a cellphone and spilled wine all over their apartment when she told him she was leaving him.

But multiple police officers who responded to a call about a domestic disturbance at the couple's apartment testified that they didn't see any signs of damaged property or bruising on Heard's face.

The officers said that Heard did not speak to them about what had occurred. They said they didn't write up a report since they didn't see any signs of a crime.

The jury also heard more details about the aftermath of an April 2016 fight between the couple, from one of Depp's longtime chauffeurs and security guards, Starling Jenkins.

Earlier in the trial, Depp spoke about how he left the apartment after getting into a fight with Heard about being late to her birthday party. Depp said that after he left the apartment, his security team found poop in the bed he shared with Heard. Depp testified that Heard later blamed the defecation on their two teacup Yorkies, Pistol and Boo.

But Jenkins testified that he later spoke to Heard, who took responsibility for the poop.

Jenkins said he had "a conversation pertaining to the surprise she left in the boss's bed" and that Heard called it a "horrible practical joke."

He was working the morning shift the day after the fight and says one of the first things Heard told him when he showed up to his shift was that she and Johnny had a fight the previous night and she threw several of his personal items out the window and onto the street below, including his cellphone.

Jenkins went on to explain how he used the Find my iPhone app to track the phone down to Skid Row, a neighborhood of LA known for its homeless population.

A homeless man turned the phone over to him, and Jenkins said he rewarded the man with $420, chicken tacos, chips, apples, and Fiji water.

Heard filed for divorce on May 23, 2016 — just 15 months after she and Depp married. On May 27, she filed a restraining order against Depp, citing the "loft incident" which she says left her with a bruise on her face. The divorce was finalized in early 2017.

Edward White, Depp's business manager, testified on Thursday that Heard asked for $4 million at the beginning of divorce negotiations. Then it grew.

After the $4 million settlement request, White testified, Heard kept upping the amount she wanted. Eventually, White said, she received $7 million, plus another $500,000 given to her legal team — all tax-free.

But one of the biggest items, which hasn't been previously disclosed, was that Depp would be on the hook for all "community liabilities," a term that typically refers to jointly owned assets and debts.

Overall, White testified, Depp gave $14.25 million to Heard from the divorce.

On Wednesday, jurors heard testimony from Christian Carino, an agent who worked with Heard starting in the mid-2000s, and with Depp in 2016. He said that he tried to help Heard and Depp with their relationship troubles, introducing them to Laurel Anderson, a marriage counselor who testified earlier in the trial. Depp and Heard both confided in him about their relationship, he said.

"She talked with me about the state of their relationship from the beginning to the end," Carino testified, referring to Heard.

Heard filed for a restraining order against Depp in May 2016, shortly after filing for divorce. A few months later, Carino said, Heard wanted to arrange a meeting. According to Carino, Heard told him to "Please tell him I love him."

Depp "was reluctant at first and then agreed" to meet with Heard, but needed Carino to secure her promise to not accuse him of violating the restraining order. Once that was secured, Carino secured a meeting at a friend's home. The couple talked for hours, and eventually had to move to a hotel room in San Francisco. They talked for hours more and eventually left at around 6 a.m. the next morning, Carino said.

Carino testified that he later learned that Heard may have been dating billionaire Elon Musk by the time he set up the San Francisco meeting between Depp and Heard.

Testimony from Carino also revealed that Heard and Musk's relationship was one-sided.

In a text message Carino sent Heard after her breakup from Musk made the news in August 2017, he told her: "You weren't in love with him and you told me a thousand times you were just filling space."

"I know, but I wanted time to grieve and recover in my own time," Heard responded.

Musk's name came up several times in testimony this week, including during questioning over Heard's promise to donate half of her $7 million divorce settlement to the ACLU.

Terence Dougherty, chief operating officer and general counsel of the ACLU, testified that the organization only ever received $1.3 million in donations made in Heard's name, and that he believes $500,000 of that amount came from Musk.

He also read from emails indicating that Heard's representatives wanted the Washington Post op-ed — which is at the center of Depp's lawsuit — to be published after the release of of her film "Aquaman." Depp's lawyers have argued that Heard used the domestic violence allegations against Depp in the op-ed to boost her own career.

By the end of their marriage, Depp and Heard rang up a $160,000 wine bill at a Los Angeles wine company, Ed White, Depp's business manager, testified on Thursday.

White said that the bill with Twenty Twenty Wine Merchants was one of the debts that the couple had to settle as they were finalizing their divorce.

Since the couple's divorce, White says that Depp's wine bill has shrunk to "virtually zero" since he "does not continue to consume much in the way of wine."

White said that Heard had an affinity for a particular Spanish wine that cost $500 a bottle.

One of the most riveting witnesses this week was Shannon Curry, who testified Tuesday. A clinical psychologist, she was hired by Depp to evaluate Heard after Heard claimed to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following her relationship.

Curry evaluated Heard for 12 hours over two days and had her answer hundreds of questions for psychological exams. She said Heard greatly exaggerated her symptoms and didn't have PTSD. Curry did, however, diagnose Heard with borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder.

Heard's psychological profile, Curry testified, matched Depp's narrative of Heard as someone who was emotionally domineering and physically and psychologically abusive, while also fearing abandonment in her relationship. Someone like Heard, Curry said, might use threats and escalate violence to keep their relationship intact.

"They might say that they are going to file a restraining order or claim abuse, or they might do these things, to essentially try to keep their partner from leaving," Curry testified. "In the moment, they're not consciously thinking, 'I'm going to keep my partner from leaving right now.' They're just thinking, 'I can't stand this. I hate my partner.'"

Heard also had a "code type" associated with "cruelty," Curry said, as well as people who are "very attention-seeking" and "prone to externalizing blame, to a point where it's unclear whether they can even admit to themselves that they do have responsibility."

People with histrionic personality disorder, Curry said, often might even lie about their circumstances to seek attention and take on a "victim role."

"They might take the victim role or the princess role, and even make up stories," Curry said. "Sometimes, those are to bolster the victim role. Sometimes, those stories are just to make them look more interesting or accomplished in their mind so that they can get respect and attention that way."