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A friend tried to shield Amber Heard from Johnny Depp, her husband, during a drunken rampage, according to court papers filed as part of her application for a domestic violence restraining order.

Depp has denied all the allegations. His lawyers accused his wife of using the allegations to “secure a premature financial resolution,” while his daughter and two former wives stood by the actor.

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On Friday, a Los Angeles judge ordered Depp, 52, not to come within 100 yards of Heard. In the court papers released Saturday, Heard alleged her husband had “a long-held and widely acknowledged public and private history of drug and alcohol abuse.”

“His relationship with reality oscillates, depending on his interaction with alcohol and drugs,” she stated.

The actor had an “exceptionally scary temper,” said Heard, and she had sometimes felt that her life was threatened.

The couple’s separation after 15 months of marriage came as a shock to celebrity watchers but followed the death of Depp’s mother, Betty Sue Palmer, at the age of 81, last Friday.