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Kate Moss stated on May 25 that ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp “never pushed me, he didn’t kick me or throw me down any stairs.” Rather, he said he came to her rescue after what he described as a nasty fall during a vacation. Depp’s team called Moss as a rebuttal witness in his defamation suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Depp and Heard have accused each other of abuse, and Heard testified on May 5 about a rumored domestic incident between him and the supermodel, when the stars came out in the 1990s. “Mrs. Moss, you know Johnny Depp asked his lawyer, Ben Chew, “Yes,” Moss replied with a slight smile. white shirt for her testimony.He said she and Depp had a romantic relationship from 1994 to 1998. “Ms. Moss, was there a time, as a couple, that you both went on holiday together to the GoldenEye resort in Jamaica? She replied in the affirmative. “What happened, if anything?” Chew continued. “We were leaving the room and Johnny left the room before me, and there had been a rainstorm, and when I left the room, I slipped down the stairs and hurt my back. “Moss said. “And I screamed, because I didn’t know what happened to me, and I was in pain, and he ran back to help me and took me to my room and got me medical attention.” Chew pressed, “Did Mr. Depp somehow push you up the stairs?” “No,” Moss said. Heart’s team did not interrogate Moss.
When Depp intervened again today as part of his reply case, he was asked about the rumor and its origins. What happened, Depp said, “is what he said happened,” referring to Moss. Depp said he remembered telling the story to Heard. “Ma’am. Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident, all in his mind,” Depp said. “There was never a time when I pushed Kate down some stairs, and yet she vomited three times before.” Depp was asked what he specifically told Heard about the staircase incident. “We were just in Jamaica; She had left our bungalow about three minutes before her. I was standing outside and it suddenly started to rain like a monsoon, and then I remember looking at Kate coming out the door, “Depp said.” And there were three small wooden stairs, and she slipped. Her legs went up and she landed on her coccyx. He was obviously in physical pain. She was injured. She was crying. So I ran to pick her up to make sure she was okay. “Depp continued,” That’s all. That’s all I’ve ever had, that’s the whole story, and, um, the rumor, I had never heard a rumor like that before Mrs. Heard get caught up in it. “
The saga of Moss’s involvement in Depp and Heard’s trial is a bit complicated. Heard claimed he hit Depp in the face during an argument in the spring of 2015, for fear he would throw his sister, Whitney, down the stairs. “I do not doubt it, do not wait. Just in my head, I immediately thought of Kate Moss and the stairs, and I turned to him … “Heard had also named Moss during Depp’s defamation trial in the UK against The Sun, where he remembered hearing a rumor that he had been pushed by an ex-girlfriend — who he thought was Moss — down the stairs. On May 17, Heard was asked to explain his mention to Moss. “You’d throw your sister down the stairs like she’d thrown Kate Moss down the stairs, wouldn’t she?” pressed one of Depp’s lawyers, referring to the indictment. “Calling Moss, Heard paved the way, from a legal standpoint, for Depp’s lawyers to call her as a witness. Moss’s account of his time with Depp also provides a counter-narrative to Heard presented Elen Barkin’s video testimony to the jury. briefly with Depp in the 1990s. Barkin described Depp as an immensely “jealous” boy who was often drunk. He also claimed that Depp threw a bottle during a dispute with someone in his inner circle in a hotel room in Las Vegas.