Kate Moss On Defending Johnny Depp In Courtroom

Kate Moss is talking out about defending Johnny Depp in courtroom.

In case you want reminding, Moss — who’s notoriously non-public and barely offers interviews — got here ahead to testify in Depp’s defamation case in opposition to his ex-wife, Amber Heard, in Might.

The British supermodel was requested to touch upon a rumor that had been raised by Heard throughout the trial, claiming that Depp had as soon as shoved Moss down a flight of stairs after they have been courting between 1994 and 1998.

For context, this declare was first alleged by Heard again in 2020, when she was referred to as to testify in a separate defamation trial Depp leveled in opposition to The Solar within the UK.

Talking to the British courtroom on the time, Heard reportedly mentioned: “I remembered data I had heard [that] he pushed a former girlfriend — I imagine it was Kate Moss — down the steps. I had heard this rumor from two individuals and it was recent in my thoughts.”

Depp misplaced this case, and whereas the trial was ongoing, his workforce accused Heard of fabricating the rumor about Moss.

Two years later, and the alleged incident turned a subject of debate as soon as once more throughout Depp and Heard’s defamation trial within the US, whereby the actor sued his former spouse for $50 million over claims she made in an op-ed again in 2018.

So, within the more moderen case, Heard mentioned that she tried to hit Depp after being reminded of “Kate Moss and stairs” throughout an altercation involving her youthful sister, Whitney Henriquez.

“[Whitney’s] again was to the staircase, and Johnny swings at her,” Heard testified in Might. “I do not hesitate, I do not wait — I simply, in my head, immediately consider Kate Moss and stairs.”

This prompted Depp’s workforce to name upon Moss to testify in regards to the rumor herself, denying that it ever occurred.

Showing in courtroom by way of video hyperlink on Might 25, Moss countered claims that she was ever pushed by Depp, as an alternative claiming that she slipped and fell after there had been a rainstorm.

“I slid down the steps and I harm my again,” she mentioned. “He by no means pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs.”

She defined that Depp had not been within the room on the time of her fall, however that he got here to her help after listening to her cry out in ache.

“I screamed as a result of I did not know what had occurred to me, and he got here working again to assist me and carried me to my room and obtained me medical consideration,” Moss mentioned.

Throughout the testimony, Depp’s lawyer requested Moss about why she had selected this event to seem as a witness for the primary time in any courtroom case. Nevertheless, Heard’s workforce objected to the query.

Now, talking out as soon as once more, Moss opened up about what moved her to defend her former associate, telling BBC Radio 4 in a uncommon interview: “I do know the reality about Johnny.”

Shedding extra mild on her participation within the trial, Moss made reference to the designer John Galliano, who was discovered responsible of antisemitic abuse in 2011 and was fired from his function at Christian Dior in consequence.

“I imagine within the reality, and I imagine in equity and justice. I do know that John Galliano is just not a foul particular person — he had an alcohol downside and other people flip,” she started. “Folks aren’t themselves after they drink, and so they say issues that they’d by no means say in the event that they have been sober.”

Seemingly drawing comparisons between the general public attitudes in direction of each males, Moss continued: “I do know the reality about Johnny [Depp]. I do know he by no means kicked me down the steps. I needed to say that reality.”

Depp received the trial on June. 2 and was awarded with over $10 million. The jury additionally sided with Heard on considered one of her three counterclaims. Heard is at present within the means of trying to attraction Depp’s win.