Amber Heard admitted to slamming a door into Johnny Depp's head in a heated argument during their tumultuous 18-month marriage, according to the Daily Mail, which says it has obtained a series of audiotapes that include her admission.
During the exchange, Depp is heard saying to his then-wife that she had hit him in the head "with a f****** corner of the door" then he adds: "And then I stood up and then you f****** clock me."
Heard responds by stating she remembers "hitting" Depp and then offers him an apology.
"And I'm really sorry about hitting you with the door or hitting your head, I did not mean to," she says on the tape.
The tape, which has only been made public now, was played by Depp's lawyers in 2016 when Heard was deposed during the couple's divorce case. At the time, Heard said the recording did not give a clear picture of how things unfolded that fateful day.
"It also misrepresents what actually happened, which is him trying to get into a room," she said, according to a transcript obtained by the Daily Mail. "I'm trying to keep him out of, and then he runs the door over my toes trying to get into the room. I tried to push him out of it, which is what the hit is that is referred to."
She added that whenever Depp was "hit or touched" he referred to it as "punching" or being "clocked."
Depp's team said there are several other taped "confessions" that prove it was Heard, not him, who was guilty of domestic abuse.
The emergence of the latest tape comes as Depp and Heard lock horns in two separate defamation lawsuits. Depp has appeared in court for a libel suit against U.K. tabloid The Sun's editor Dan Wootton and the publication's parent company, News Group Newspapers, for a 2018 article alleging he was abusive toward Heard.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star has also filed a lawsuit against The Washington Post for an opinion piece in which Heard wrote she was a domestic violence victim. Depp was not mentioned but the article still reportedly caused him to lose his role of Captain Jack Sparrow.
Depp and Heard tied the knot in 2015, but in the following year Heard filed for divorce. Days later, Heard obtained a restraining order against her estranged husband after accusing the actor of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse. They reached a private settlement as Heard threatened to testify against Depp in court.