Kate Mossis sharing what made her decide to testify on behalf of her ex-boyfriendJohnny Deppduring his May defamation trial againstAmber Heard.
Heard first alleged that Depp pushed Kate Moss down the stairs during her testimony at Depp’s U.K. defamation trial against British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater”, according toThe New York Post. In November 2020, Depplost that U.K. libel lawsuit caseand the court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true.” In March 2021, Depp’s attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.
In Depp’s 2022 trial in the U.S. against Amber Heard — where he accused his ex-wife of defaming him in an op-ed about domestic abuse — the staircase incident came up again. Heard said that she “swung at” Depp to defend her younger sisterWhitney Henriquezand was triggered when she thought about “Kate Moss and stairs.”
However, the British supermodel, 48,appeared virtually in courtin May to deny rumors that thePirates of the Caribbeanstar shoved her down a flight of stairs while they were dating between 1994 and 1998. “I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back,” Moss said under oath in May. “He never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs.”
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Now Moss is explaining why she supported Depp in his U.S. trial this year. “I know the truth about Johnny. I know he never kicked me down the stairs. I had to say that truth,” Moss said in an interview with BBC Radio 4’sDesert Island Discs.
During the U.S. trial where Moss testified, Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez asked during cross-examination, “You didn’t expect Ms. Moss to testify that that never happened, did you?”
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Heard 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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Depp and Heard are now both in the process of appealing the verdicts in their Virginia defamation case.
After Heardfiled a notice of appealwith the Virginia Court of Appeals on Thursday, Depp filed his own notice of appeal Friday seeking to overturn the $2 million verdict in Heard’s countersuit.
source: people.com
