Johnny Depp retakes witness stand, calls Amber Heard’s claims ‘insane’; Kate Moss also testifies

“Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unbelievably brutal, merciless, and all false,” Depp mentioned when requested about his response to listening to Heard’s allegations when she testified earlier within the trial.

Depp was testifying Wednesday as a rebuttal witness – each he and Heard every testified extensively earlier within the trial.

He gave some particular responses to a few of the explicit allegations levied by Heard and likewise her sister, Whitney Henriquez, who supplied a few of Heard’s strongest corroborating testimony.

He concluded his testimony with a closing denial of the allegations.

“I’ve by no means in my life dedicated sexual battery, bodily abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous tales of me committing this stuff,” he mentioned. “And residing with it for six years, and ready to have the ability to deliver the reality out.”

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He mentioned that “it doesn’t matter what occurs I did get right here and I did inform the reality and I’ve spoken up for what I have been carrying on my again, reluctantly, for six years.”

Depp shall be cross-examined Wednesday afternoon.

Depp is suing Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Publish describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His attorneys say he was defamed by the article although it by no means talked about his title.

Depp has denied he ever struck Heard and says she was the abuser within the relationship. Heard has testified about greater than a dozen separate situations of bodily abuse she says she suffered at Depp’s arms.

Depp additionally disputed a declare made by Heard that Depp had nothing to do with getting her a job within the superhero blockbuster “Aquaman.” When Heard testified, she was clearly offended by a query from Depp’s attorneys insinuating Depp bought her the position.

Depp, although, mentioned that after Heard auditioned for the position, he talked to the studio on her behalf. He was barred from discussing the main points of his conversations when Heard’s attorneys objected, however mentioned that “finally she did get the job, so hopefully, I suppose, I had curbed their worries to some extent.”

Additionally Wednesday, supermodel Kate Moss, a former girlfriend of Depp, denied that she had ever been pushed or assaulted by Depp through the course of their relationship.

Moss additionally testified as a rebuttal witness. Heard, in her testimony, made a reference to Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down a set of stairs once they dated.

Moss, in testimony supplied by video hyperlink, mentioned Depp by no means assaulted her. She mentioned she did as soon as slip down a flight of stairs after a rainstorm at a Jamaican resort, and that Depp got here to her help.

She testified for lower than 5 minutes and was not cross-examined.

Depp additionally addressed the accusation in his testimony, saying it occurred simply as Moss mentioned. He mentioned he’d instructed the story about Moss to Heard years in the past and “Ms. Heard took the story and turned it into a really ugly incident, all in her thoughts.”

Each side are anticipated to current their closing witnesses Thursday, with closing arguments anticipated Friday.