The former assistant to Amber Heard, ex-wife of Johnny Depp who accuses him of violence, said Wednesday that the American actress had “stolen” her own story from a victim of sexual assault during the defamation trial of The Sun tabloid in London.
Called to testify by videoconference from Los Angeles to the lawsuit launched in London by the star of “Pirate of the Caribbean” at the British newspaper, who presented him as an violent husband in April 2018, Kate James has curled the 34-year-old actress, for whom she worked from 2012 to 2015. Questioned by the lawyer for the publisher of the Sun, NGN, who questioned the veracity of her testimony, she curtly replied: “I’m a survivor of sexual assault. That’s why I’m here.”
Responding to Johnny Depp’s lawyer, Kate James accused Heard of having him “Fly” his history. She confirmed her written statements in which she said that she had discovered that Amber Heard had used the confidences she had given him to make them “his own story for his benefit”.
Amber Heard, she said, “tends to drink” and sent her inconsistent or insulting messages in the middle of the night.
Ben King, who was manager of the couple’s home affairs, including in Australia in 2015, said Amber Heard was behind the arguments. He had to supervise the refurbishment of the house where the couple stayed during the filming of one of the “Pirate of the Caribbean” and had to recover the finger tip lost by Johnny Depp. According to the actor, he was cut by Amber Heard with a broken bottle of vodka on a marble piece of furniture. But according to Heard, the actor was thus injured with a telephone.
The American actress is scheduled to testify on Friday. The newspaper invokes 14 accusations of violence made against her ex-husband between 2013 and 2016. The couple divorced after less than two years of a stormy marriage, at the beginning of 2017. Thursday, the court must hear Vanessa Paradis by videoconference. In a written testimony to the proceedings, the French singer and actress, in a relationship with Johnny Depp for 14 years, portrayed him as “a kind, attentive, generous and non-violent man and father”. Must also testify in favor of Johnny Depp at the trial his ex-partner the American actress Winona Ryder.
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