Amber Heard spoke in court on Thursday (May 5, 2022) about the first time she hit Johnny Depp. She referred to an alleged incident between Johnny Depp and his ex-girlfriend Kate Moss.
Quarrel between Johnny Depp and sister Whitney caused a scandal
On the witness stand, Amber Heard recounted an altercation between Johnny Depp and her sister Whitney in March 2015. At the moment of the conflict, Amber Heard recalled the tales of a past dispute between Kate Moss and Johnny Depp, in which he tried to get Moss a to push down stairs. Accordingly, Depp would now have tried to hit Whitney. That upset her – that’s why Amber Heard slapped the actor in the face:
“Whitney had his back to the stairs and Johnny was hitting her,” Heard testified. “I’m not hesitating, I’m not waiting – I immediately think of Kate Moss and the stairs in my head. And I smacked him,” Heard continued of the alleged incident between her, Whitney and Depp in March 2015. “In my entire relationship with Johnny I hadn’t hit a single punch,” she said. “And I really beat him for the first time. Right in the face.”
“I remembered information I had heard that he pushed a previous girlfriend — I think it was Kate Moss — down the stairs,” Heard previously testified while describing the same argument between her sister and Depp. “I had heard this rumor from two people and it was fresh in my mind.”
Turbulent relationship with Kate Moss
Moss and Depp split in 1997 after four years of dating. Reports of heated arguments between the two have repeatedly surfaced in the past. On September 13, 1994, the then-couple was said to have been observed yelling at each other in public. Afterwards, Depp was arrested at 5:30 a.m. at New York’s Mark Hotel for allegedly vandalizing his hotel room. Moss was unharmed in the incident. A judge later dismissed a lawsuit she brought against Depp.
Moss said in a 2012 interview that she cried on and off for years after their relationship ended. She made peace with him. In addition, the model spoke about the special relationship of trust with Depp: “There is no one who has ever really taken care of me. Johnny did that for a while. I believed what he said. For example, if I asked, ‘What should I do?’ He would tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I’ve really lost the feeling that I can trust anyone.”