Kate Moss has finally testified in the Depp and Heard Defamation Trial, which has captivated the world. While sitting on the witness stand via videoconference on Wednesday, Kate Moss unequivocally denied that her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp ever threw or pushed her downstairs during their relationship.
Moss was called as a rebuttal witness in Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, which is now in its sixth and final week in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court.
“He never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs,” Moss, looking elegant in a white pussy-bow blouse and black blazer, said with a smirk.
Heard’s prior testimony seems to pertain to a claim that Depp shoved Moss down a flight of stairs while the two were dating in the 1990s, which the British supermodel refuted.
Moss told the jury in Gloucester, England, that she was leaving her hotel room at the GoldenEye resort in Jamaica during a rainstorm when she went down a flight of stairs and was injured.
“Johnny had left the room before I did, and there had been a rainstorm. And as I left the room, I slid down the stairs and hurt my back,” she said.
“I screamed because I didn’t know what happened to me and I was in pain,” Moss testified. “And [Depp] came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention.”
Depp’s attorney Ben Chew asked the witness: “Did Mr. Depp push you in any way down the stairs?”
“No,” Moss replied.
After only a few minutes, the high-profile witness was dismissed without being subjected to cross-examination by Heard’s legal team.
A source close to Depp told The Post Wednesday: “The stairs accident was just that — an accident — when she slipped on stairs while [it was] raining and Mr. Depp immediately tended to her and sought out medical attention for her.”
Heard’s team, though, was apparently not impressed with Moss’ testimony, with a source close to the actress telling The Post in a statement: “So Johnny Depp didn’t abuse Kate Moss. That makes him 1 for 2 in the abuse column.
“But, to date, he’s 0 for 1 in the courtroom on the central issue in this case back when he lost the same exact case in England. And when the jury deliberates over the singular issue in this case — whether Amber Heard can exercise her right of Freedom of Speech — he’ll be 0 for 2, no matter how much his lawyers try to distract and divert the jury’s attention.”
Moss was 20 when she met Depp, who was 31 at the time. The renowned couple dated from 1994 to 1997, before the “Edward Scissorhands” star broke up with the fashion queen for French actress Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his two children, Lily-Rose and Jack.
Despite the breakup, which Moss described as a “nightmare” followed by “years and years of crying” in a 2012 Vanity Fair feature, she has remained an ardent supporter of her former. “There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit,” Moss told the magazine.
In her May 5 evidence, Heard, 36, mentioned Moss, detailing a March 2015 brawl in which she slapped Depp in the face because she was afraid he was about to shove her sister, Whitney Henriquez, down a stairwell.
The actress of “Aquaman” said she “instantly” thought of “Kate Moss and the stairs,” leading Depp lawyer Ben Chew to turn and fist-pump.
A source close to Depp told The Post at the time: “Amber mentioned an ex of Johnny’s that clearly she felt was not supportive of him, which couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Heard said that her ex-husband had shoved Moss down a flight of steps during Depp’s 2020 UK trial against Britain’s Sun.
Describing the same fight involving her sister, Heard told the British court at the time: “I remembered information I had heard [that] he pushed a former girlfriend — I believe it was Kate Moss — down the stairs. I had heard this rumor from two people and it was fresh in my mind.”
Depp filed a lawsuit against the Sun after an article called him a “wife-beater.” The majority of Heard’s charges of abuse were found to be true by the UK high court, and he lost the case.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
