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Because the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial approaches its finish, Depp’s ex-girlfriend Kate Moss took stand on Wednesday.
Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Submit describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His attorneys say he was defamed by the article though it by no means talked about his identify.
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Depp is looking for US$50 million in damages, whereas Heard is countersuing her former associate for US$100 million.
Moss, a 48-year-old former supermodel — who was romantically concerned with Depp from 1994 to 1998 — advised the courtroom about an incident during which she fell down a flight of stairs and was saved by Depp.
Kate Moss attends The Costume Institute Profit celebrating the opening of In America: An Anthology of Trend at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York, N.Y. on Could 2, 2022.
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In earlier testimony, Heard referred to Moss whereas she described a combat during which she admittedly punched Depp when she thought that he would push her sister down the steps.
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“Whitney’s again was to the staircase, and Johnny swings at her,” Heard mentioned on the time. “I don’t hesitate, I don’t wait… I simply, in my head, immediately consider Kate Moss and stairs. And I swung at him.”
On Wednesday in very transient testimony, Moss mentioned that she and Depp have been in Jamaica throughout their relationship, and it had been raining. She then slipped down the moist stairs of their suite, she mentioned, and Depp raced to assist her up, carried her to her room and bought her medical consideration. She denied outright that Depp pushed her down the steps and mentioned he by no means did that at any level throughout their time collectively.
The testimony contradicted Heard.
Following Moss, Dr. Shannon Curry returned to the stand to rebut the testimony of scientific psychologist Dr. Daybreak Hughes, who mentioned earlier within the trial that Curry offered inaccurate details about the psychological state of Heard.
Curry shot again at Hughes, saying it was actually her who drew the wrong conclusions and take a look at outcomes about Heard. Curry claimed, via her take a look at outcomes, that Heard didn’t have and “by no means had PTSD” ensuing from abuse by the hands of Depp.
Heard’s lawyer reasserted that Dr. Hughes spent upwards of 29 hours with Heard and interviewed Heard’s mom, and had a fulsome, complete understanding of the actor’s psychological well being.
After a short morning recess, Depp returned to the stand to face additional questioning.
Depp denied Heard’s earlier declare that he consumed between eight and ten MDMA drugs on the night time of the now-infamous altercation in Australia.
Heard earlier advised the jury that Depp forcefully penetrated her with a liquor bottle that night time. Depp beforehand testified that he misplaced the tip of his finger that night time, claiming that Heard threw a vodka bottle at him and it smashed on his hand.
Depp’s lawyer revisited the couple’s honeymoon – a July 2015 journey aboard the Orient Specific. Heard beforehand advised the courtroom that Depp forcefully choked her whereas on the practice journey.
Depp was proven images from that journey, and he testified that he’d sustained a black eye after his ex-wife hit him.
Depp described his relationship with Heard’s sister, Whitney.
“I preferred her very a lot and I grew to like Whitney…(she) at all times appeared to get the soiled finish of the stick.”
Whitney, he defined, was a “trusted sister and buddy, after which lackey, after which both the punching bag or the dart board or the recipient of very ugly or demeaning phrases.”
Depp mentioned though he by no means noticed Heard instantly assault her sister, he did say he noticed Heard bodily push Whitney round and verbally abuse her.
He additionally testified that Heard threw wine in her sister’s face on one event.
Depp advised the courtroom that it’s been “insane” listening to Heard’s accusations towards him.
“It’s insane to listen to heinous accusations of violence, sexual violence, that’s she’s attributed to me. I don’t suppose anybody enjoys having to separate themselves open and inform the reality. However there are occasions when one has to, because it’s gotten uncontrolled.”
He known as his time in courtroom “ridiculous, humiliating, painful, savage, unimaginably brutal and merciless” in addition to calling the whole lot that’s been mentioned about him “false.”
“No human being is ideal, definitely not. However I’ve by no means, in my life, dedicated sexual battery, bodily abuse, all of those outlandish, outrageous tales of me committing these items.
“This isn’t simple for any of us, I do know that. However it doesn’t matter what occurs I did get right here and I did inform the reality. And I’ve spoken up for what I’ve been carrying on my again reluctantly for six years.”
The courtroom is now on lunch break, returning at roughly 2 p.m. ET.
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Earlier within the proceedings, which started on April 12 and can wrap up on Could 27, Depp denied lots of the allegations, insisting that he’s a “Southern gentleman” and that he had not been hooked on alcohol or illicit medicine.
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