Amber HeardsaysKate Moss' recent testimony “doesn’t change” what she went through withJohnny Depp.
On Wednesday, Moss, 48,gave a brief live testimony via videoto deny that ex-boyfriend Depp, 58, ever pushed her down a staircase, a rumor Heard brought up earlier in the trial. While previously testifying about an incident on a staircase, Heard, 36, said she defended her younger sisterWhitney Henriquezbecause she was triggered and thought about “Kate Moss and stairs.” “And I swung at” Depp, she testified.
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“We were leaving the room and Johnny left the room before I did. There had been a rainstorm. As I left the room, I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back,” she said under oath. “I screamed because I didn’t know what happened to me and I was in pain. He came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention.”
“He never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs,” added Moss.
On Thursday, whenHeard returned to the stand, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez asked during cross-examination, “You didn’t expect Ms. Moss to testify that that never happened, did you?”
She added, “Everybody who was around in the ’90s and the early aughts knew that rumor. I had heard that rumor from multiple people. Of course that’s what flashed through my head when my violent husband not only swung for me but all of a sudden swung for my sister. Of course I thought of that.”
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Heard previously brought up the Moss staircase allegation during her testimony at Depp’s U.K. defamation trial in 2020. (In November 2020, Depplost that U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, Depp’s attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.)
Moss said back in a 2012Vanity Fairinterview that she cried for “years” after their relationship ended: “There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, ‘What do I do?’, he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I reallylost that gauge of somebody I could trust.”
Depp and Heard married in 2015 and split in May 2016, when Heard filed for divorce then sought a domestic violence restraining order against him. Depp denied her abuse claims, and the former couplesettled their divorce out of courtin August 2016.
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When Depp got back on the witness stand for one last time on Wednesday, he conveyed the impact Heard’s allegations have had on his life andcategorically denied her “insane” testimony.
“No human being is perfect, certainly not. None of us. But I have never in my lifecommitted sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things and living with it for six years and waiting to be able to bring the truth out,” he said, later adding, “This is not easy for any of us; I know that.”
source: people.com
