British model Kate Moss has testified in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial that whether Depp had pushed her down a flight of steps when he was her boyfriend in the 1990s.
The 48-year-old supermodel, speaking through a live video told the court that she and Depp had been in a romantic relationship from 1994 to 1998. Depp’s attorney Benjamin Chew asked Moss if anything had happened while they were on holiday at the GoldenEye resort in Jamaica.
“We were leaving the room, and Johnny left the room before I did, and there had been a rainstorm. As I left the room, I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back,” Moss told the court via the video feed.
“I screamed because I didn’t know what had happened to me and I was in pain. He came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention,” she added.
According to Moss, Depp had not pushed her down the stairs. On being asked if, at any point in their relationship, he had pushed her in that way, Moss responded in ‘no’. “He never pushed me, kicked me or threw me down any stairs, no,” Moss told the court.
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Heard’s attorneys declined to cross-examine Moss, and she was told she was free to go. Moss was called by Depp’s legal team, who appeared to celebrate when her name was mentioned by Heard during her testimony, when she revived the rumor that Depp had pushed her down a flight of stairs.
Depp himself later took the stand to reject aspects of Heard’s testimony earlier in the trial. The actor sued Heard for $50m for libel in Fairfax county, Virginia, over a December 2018 op-ed Amber wrote in the Washington Post, describing herself as ‘a public figure representing domestic abuse’.
His lawyers say he was defamed by the article, although it never mentioned his name. In November 2020, Depp lost a high-stakes libel action in the UK courts against the British tabloid the Sun after the newspaper described him as a ‘wife-beater’.
