Amber Heard Confident That Kate Moss Lied but ‘It Does Not Matter’ One Bit to Her
Amber Heard asserts that Kate Moss' new testimony "does not alter" what she endured with Johnny Depp.
Moss, 48, denied via video testimony on Wednesday that ex-boyfriend Depp, 58, ever forced her down a staircase, a claim Heard made earlier in the trial. Previously, while testifying about an altercation on a staircase, Heard, age 36, stated that she defended her younger sister Whitney Henriquez because she was provoked by "Kate Moss and stairs." She testified, "And I struck Depp."
Depp dated Moss from 1994 until 1998. The model testified that the incident on the staircase occurred while they were on vacation in Jamaica and that he did not push her when she fell. (Heard's team did not cross-examine Moss.) Rather, Depp was the first to help her after that horrifying accident.
During cross-examination on Thursday, when Heard returned to the stand, Depp's attorney Camille Vasquez questioned, "You didn't expect Ms. Moss to testify that it never happened, did you?"
Heard obviously became defiant hearing that question - replying that she actually expected Kate Moss to testify on Johnny Depp's behalf. She added Moss is not likely to be the only one among those who would emerge and give supportive testimonies for Depp.
She is confident that Moss is lying or at least, hiding the truth. She added that there's no reason for her to think otherwise about Depp pushing Moss because Depp was particularly violent to her.
"Everybody who was around in the '90s and the early aughts knew that rumor. I had heard that rumor from multiple people. Of course that's what flashed through my head when my violent husband not only swung for me but all of a sudden swung for my sister. Of course I thought of that."
She did not care, really, now that Moss is supporting Depp.
"I did not expect her to show up or not expect her to show up. It didn't matter" Heard said of Moss. "It doesn't change what I believed at the time, when we were on the stairs and I thought he was gonna kill my sister by pushing her down the stairs."
Heard earlier mentioned the Moss staircase accusation during her testimony at Depp's defamation trial in the United Kingdom in 2020. (In November 2020, Depp lost his lawsuit against the British tabloid The Sun for libel for branding him a "wife-beater." The court found the publication's assertions to be "substantially truthful," and Heard's testimony supported the publication's allegations. In March 2021, Depp's effort to overturn the verdict was rejected.)
On her part, Moss once said when she and Depp broke up, she really lost someone who took care or cared for her.
"There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?', he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust," she shared.
Depp and Heard wed in 2015 and divorced in May 2016, when Heard filed for divorce and requested a restraining order against Depp for domestic abuse. In August 2016, the former couple resolved their divorce out of court after Depp refuted her allegations of violence.
