Surgeon: Johnny Depp’s Severed Finger Story Has Flaws

This combination of atwo separate photos shows actor Johnny Depp (L) and actress Amber Heard in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va., on May 23, 2022. Steve Helber/Pool via AP Photo

FALLS CHURCH, Va.—A hand surgeon testified Monday that Johnny Depp could not have lost the tip of his middle finger the way he told jurors it happened in his civil lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard.

The finger injury, which occurred in a March 2015 fight in Australia between Depp and Heard, has been one of several key points of dispute in the lawsuit. Depp says he was injured when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him. Heard has said she never saw specifically how it happened, but that it occurred on a night when an enraged Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.