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Another example of this disaster of a cross is when Johnny texted something about picking up drugs and he responded "Yes, but there's nothing in there that says I took the drugs." And Rottenborn just lets out this frustrated sigh and reaffirms that he picked them up. It wasn't here, but he had stated a couple times that he picked up the drugs for Amber specifically the day that he had his finger cut off. Another disaster moment was Rottenborn said that he asked someone for cocaine and ecstasy the after he told his doctor that his finger was cut off. Johnny Depp points out that it wasn't then, he was asked to get it for Amber before because Rottenborn was mis-calculating the time zones very purposefully. He also said he doesn't do ecstasy because he can't get that high anymore because of his addiction.

Rottenborn just got so frazzled at this point and he couldn't recover. His questions just got sloppier.

They discuss the damage of Johnny painting the lies of Amber after his finger got blown off, and they asked if he drew a penis on one of the paintings. Johnny said he doesn't think so, but that Amber was adding to what he drew so it's very likely she had done so instead. So she was involved in the stuff being defiled and broken too while Johnny was having his nervous breakdown. He wrote on a lampshade "Good luck and be careful at top" and Johnny said "Yes, and I think it's good advice."

Rottenborn tries another pathetic gotcha where he says that Johnny told some people his finger was caught in the accordion door while he told the surgeon it was cut with a knife. Johnny said no, that it was a member of his team that said that, and he only ever said it was an accordion door, and they had all agreed to keep Amber's name out of it. Rottenborn pulls up the transcript again and points out someone told the surgeon that's what happened and Johnny is just confused and goes "Yeah, it wasn't me. There's nothing in that statement that says that I told him that."

And then he plays a two second clip of Johnny and Amber talking over each other and claims Johnny was saying "The day I chopped my finger off." And Johnny is just like "No, I think I said 'The day I got my finger chopped off'." They play it three times and it is impossible to hear. But Rottenborn keeps telling Johnny that he said "The day I chopped my finger off" and getting so mad he won't agree with him. Then Johnny also pointed out that he mis-quoted something in another audio clip earlier and Rottenborn got more aggressive before Depp's team objected on the basis of argumentative.

Rottenborn also gets a clip of Johnny saying "even if I did headbutt you, I hit you in the forehead not the nose" in that situation I mentioned before, but Johnny corrects him saying that he was using Amber's words and that if you want to have a peaceful conversation with Ms. Heard, you need to placate to her. Which makes sense given how fucking insane she is in every situation and audio recording.

Then we have the clip that Amber "totally didn't sell to TMZ" where he's cursing and knocking shit around while she tried to secretly record him, when he was angry that his accountants and agents had taken $700k+ that morning, and she was grinning and laughing at the end of it. And they acted like she was just terrified of him then. Johnny asked for a date for "this illegally recorded tape." "I thought the most interesting part of the video was that she was hiding it from me and she was laughing and smiling at the end, were she so afraid of me at the time." And "I assaulted a few cupboards, but not Ms. Heard." Also Rottenborn said he poured a "mega pint". Has anyone heard anyone say "mega pint" before?

The only thing that they have Johnny read is a comment well after Amber got the restraining order where he says something foul about Amber. He then offers to read the next message and Rottenborn is just arguing with him over who says it. I'm convinced now, in hindsight, they didn't have Johnny read them because he'd read the texts as they were meant to be read and not as they're presented.

Then Rottenborn reads a message about him saying "I have other uses for your throat that do not include injury..." He reads it twice, and Johnny says "Can you read it again?" And the court laughs because come on. Just come on. We're taking sexting and trying to attribute violence to it? They just show more texts and Johnny just starts correcting every single mistake that Rottenborn makes in reading it.

They end this disaster on a rather shitty note. They play an audio of Johnny feeling suicidal after Amber tricked him into coming to talk and break his restraining order, where she was saying "Don't cut yourself" and other stuff. (This was confirmed by the next day of trial.) And Johnny just gave Rottenborn a hell of a death glare after it. This was the last thing played, devoid of context, before the three days before trial resumed. I have no doubt Amber demanded this be played to hit Johnny hard in these three days between trials.

This was a complete disaster. They have no defense. If they had anything more solid than what I typed here, they would have presented it. Spoilers: The rest of the cross examination is also very bad the following day. All of these recordings and texts and there is not a single admission from Johnny of actual abuse, or any evidence he had done so. If there was, it would have been presented here. If there was, Amber wouldn't have to make up a ton of lies about the situation. It should be simple.