(22 Jul 2020) JOHNNY DEPP ARRIVES AT UK HIGH COURT
Johnny Depp was handed a bunch of flowers by a well-wisher Wednesday (22 JULY 2020) as he arrived at Britain’s High Court for a hearing of his libel claim against a UK tabloid that accused him of abusing ex-wife Amber Heard.
Depp, 57, is suing The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, and the paper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, over the article. The Hollywood star strongly denies abusing Heard, and claimed in court that she had been violent to him.
On Tuesday, Heard dismissed accusations that she fabricated allegations of domestic violence against Depp, and told the court that the first time she struck him after years of abuse was to defend her sister from being thrown down the stairs.
Taking to the witness box for a second day during Depp’s libel case, the actress faced a barrage of questions over alleged incidents that are central to The Sun’s labeling of Depp in an April 2018 article as a “wife beater.”
She also admitted striking Depp for the first time in March 2015, after years of alleged abuse, to defend her sister, Whitney. When asked whether she had punched Depp “with a closed fist,” Heard conceded she had struck him after he had hit both of them.
“He was about to push her down the stairs and the moment before that happened, I remembered information I had heard that he pushed a former girlfriend – I believe it was Kate Moss – down the stairs.” she said. Depp dated the top model in the 1990s.
“I will never forget this incident,” she said. “It was the first time after all these years.”
Depp’s counsel, Eleanor Laws, wondered why Heard had not mentioned the Moss allegation previously and sought to show inconsistencies in Heard’s allegations, accusing her of weaving a “web of lies” and “making this up as you go along.”
Heard, 34, insisted through the day that she was being truthful.
The trial continues.
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