The Baffling Response to Kate Moss Testifying About Johnny Depp
A segment of the internet is hoping she gets back together with him, suggesting nostalgia is more powerful than disturbing allegations about his treatment of women thatthis trial has brought to light.
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Kate Moss appeared briefly at the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial to say that he didn’t push her down some stairs in Jamaica in the nineties, and the baffling result has been people on social media wishing for them to get back together.
The entire testimony was only about three minutes. Moss was called to the stand to address earlier statements by Heard that she had heard a rumor that Depp pushed Moss down the stairs when they were dating in the nineties. Heard said she hit Depp because he had tried to hit her sister while she was standing near the top of a staircase. “I just, in my head, instantly think of Kate Moss and the stairs and I swung at him,” she explained.
On Wednesday, Moss said, “There had been a rainstorm and as I left the room I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back… And I screamed because I didn’t know what happened to me and I was in pain. And he came running back to help me and carried me to my room and got me medical attention.” She added, “He never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs.”
Depp and his lawyer’s reactions to Moss have been obsessed over by Depp fans. When Heard first mentioned Moss, Depp’s lawyer Benjamin Chew appeared to pump his fist in the courtroom because the remarks opened the door for Moss to be called to testify. Her appearance was voluntary, though Heard’s legal team successfully objected to Chew’s question about Moss’s motives for appearing on the stand, so we will probably never hear from the famously private model about why she did.
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