Christi Dembrowski

“I saw a repeat happening in life. When we were - when we were kids and - and arguments and fighting would start to happen, our first thing was to go and hide and, you know, get away from it.”

Christi explicitly parallels the Depp-Heard conflict dynamic to their abusive childhood, explaining why she booked a spare hotel room.

“She called him an old, fat man.”

Direct testimony of a demeaning verbal remark made by Heard about Depp, offered to illustrate the character of the relationship.

“she told me that I needed to basically get down off my cross and mind my own business. She said that Johnny liked that she was feisty.”

Christi's account of Heard dismissing her concern about the couple's fighting after Australia, framing it as Heard rejecting outside intervention.

“I know he doesn't want people to feel that he -- you know, that he could ever be that type of person, which he isn't. And to know that, actually, that is something that is attached to him now, which trickles down to his children”

Christi describes the personal impact of the op-ed allegations on Depp, emphasizing the effect on his children as the aspect that bothers him most.

“I wrote the words.”

Concise admission that she authored the 'stop coke, stop pills, stop drinking' texts, even as she refuses to accept Rottenborn's interpretation of their meaning.

“What I heard from her in - in these texts, I didn't really love where life was at the time.”

Partial concession that the Heard text exchange did register concern, contradicting her earlier denial of any worry at that time.

“What was going on in life was someone who constantly wanted to point out some sort of drug and alcohol abuse.”

Reframes Heard's concerns as the problem rather than the underlying conduct, revealing Christi's defensive posture toward Depp's behavior.

“I could have been telling him, you know, because I've had this conversation before, I could have been telling him, you know, that in order to make her not constantly accusing, you know, this is what she would need.”

Christi's alternative theory — that the 'stop coke' texts were aimed at satisfying Heard's complaints rather than reflecting her own concern — offered without supporting evidence.

“There was a certain way that, you know, ultimately you had to talk to Amber to sort of keep things calm. So you would pacify her.”

Characterizes Heard as requiring management, framing Christi's conciliatory texts as appeasement strategy rather than genuine concern about Depp's behavior.

“Dr. Kipper was the doctor that was helping my brother, excuse me, helping my brother get help from the pain medication addiction that he had”

Christi acknowledges Depp had a pain medication addiction and that she was involved in arranging Dr. Kipper's treatment — establishing the basis for the Kipper email impeachment.

“He does say in here, yes, he wrote that he has no accountability for his behaviors in this time.”

Christi concedes the contents of Dr. Kipper's email directly contradict her testimony that no one other than Amber ever raised concerns about Depp's accountability.

“We certainly didn't want any press to know about it. So that's - you know, to keep it from that.”

Christi acknowledges coordinating a press-management effort around Depp's finger injury, which Depp's team attributed to Amber and which is central to the Australia incident narrative.

“she would present information to me that was not necessarily information that was supported by everybody else that was around”

Christi's core explanation for her testimony that Heard presents things dramatically — Heard's accounts diverged from those of others in Depp's circle.

“I communicated daily, not necessarily with each one of those people, but I communicated, pretty much, daily with people within the world, the circle.”

Establishes the basis for Christi's comparative claim — she had daily contact with Depp's broader team and was in a position to know what they reported.