Johnny Depp: ‘Texts about drowning Amber Heard based on Monty Python’

Johnny Depp said texts about drowning Amber Heard were based on a Monty Python sketch (Steve Helber/AP)

Johnny Depp says texts he sent to actor Paul Bettany about burning and drowning his former partner Amber Heard were a joke based on a Monty Python sketch.

The actor told a US court on Monday that he was “ashamed” of the messages but that they were an attempt at “irreverent and abstract humour”.