Fairfax – AFP
Supermodel Kate Moss, Johnny Depp’s life partner in the 1990s, may appear in court Wednesday to testify in the highly media-attended trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by the actor against his ex-wife Amber Heard, according to US media, citing sources close to Deep.
The New York Post reported that the 48-year-old British model may testify by video from California.
Kate Moss, who co-starred with the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star from 1994 to 1997, was called to testify by Johnny Depp’s lawyer.
During her testimony on May 5, Amber Heard described a violent fight with her husband in March 2015, and spoke of a rumor circulating at the time that Johnny Depp had dropped his former partner Kate Moss on the stairs.
“I immediately thought of Kate Moss on the stairs and hit him,” Heard said.
The Hollywood star’s lawyers are hoping Kate Moss will refute the rumor, discrediting the entirety of the 36-year-old actress’s testimony.
Johnny Depp accuses his ex-wife, Amber Heard, of damaging his reputation and undermining his career, after she confirmed in a 2018 article in the Washington Post that she had been subjected to domestic violence two years earlier, when they were still married, without explicitly mentioning his name.
Johnny Depp asserts that he has never hit any woman in his life, indicating in return that he was the one who was subjected to violence from Amber Heard, and he is demanding $50 million in damages.
The star of the movie “Aquaman” launched a counterattack, demanding the actor to pay a double compensation of one hundred million dollars, and confirmed that she had been subjected to violence since 2012, a year after the start of their relationship.
Specialist surgeon Richard Moore responded Monday to the allegations of Johnny Depp, who confirms that he lost part of his finger in Australia in 2015, after Amber Heard smashed a drink bottle on him during an argument.
He explained that there were no glass shards on the injured finger, nor on the hand.
Another doctor, psychiatrist David Spiegel, described the actor’s character as “narcissistic”, noting that his condition was exacerbated by his excessive consumption of drugs and alcohol.
He touched on “jealousy, sudden disturbance of the mood, the difficulty of maintaining calm, and his acceptance of a certain degree of violence.”
The doctor emphasized that alcohol and cocaine consumption “significantly increases the risk of domestic violence.”