WARNING: This story contains details about intimate partner violence.
Supermodel Kate Moss, an ex-girlfriend of Johnny Depp, said Wednesday that she was never pressured or attacked by Depp during their relationship.
Moss testified as a witness to a rebuttal in Depp’s defamation case against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Hurd, in his testimony, made a fleeting mention of Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down the stairs when they met. Hurd mentioned Moss as he described a battle in which he admitted to hitting Depp on a staircase because he said Depp was attacking Hurd’s sister, Whitney.
Moss, in testimony provided via video link, said Depp had never attacked her. She said she once went downstairs after a rainstorm at a Jamaican resort and that Depp came to her aid.
She testified in less than five minutes and was not cross-examined.
Depp is suing Hurd for defamation in Fairfax County Court in Virginia over a December 2018 post she wrote in the Washington Post describing herself as a “public figure representing domestic violence.” Depp’s lawyers claim he was slandered by the article, although he never mentions his name.
Depp denies hitting Hurd and says she was the bully in the relationship. Hurd has testified to more than a dozen individual cases of physical violence she says she suffered at the hands of Depp.
The trial continues on Wednesday.
Support is available to anyone who has been abused or attacked. You can access crisis lines and local support services through Canadian Association for the Elimination of Violence database. Canadian Women’s Foundation Call for help is a silent one-handed gesture to use in a video call to indicate that you are at risk of domestic violence. If you are in immediate danger or fear for your safety or the safety of others around you, please call 911.
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