Kate Moss on why she chose to testify in Johnny Depp trial: “I know the truth”
Kate Moss has claimed she felt she “had to say the truth” when asked to testify in Johnny Depp’s defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard.
Moss famously barely gives any interviews or talks publicly. However, she did break her silence to give evidence in the trial, denying that Depp previously pushed her down the stairs during their relationship in the 1990s. The model, who dated Depp between 1994 and 1998, said that she did fall down a set of stairs when she and Depp were on holiday in Jamaica and that he had helped her up at the time.
Moss discussed the part she played in the lawsuit on the BBC Radio 4 interview show Desert Island Discs in which public figures are asked to choose their seven favourite records, one book, one luxury item, and also to discuss their lives.
After being asked why she decided to speak out for Depp, Moss told presenter Lauren Laverne: “I know the truth about Johnny. I know he never kicked me down the stairs. I had to say that truth.”
At the time of her testimony, Moss recalled: “We were leaving the room, Johnny left before I did, and there had been a rain storm. As I left the room, I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back.
“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 back to my room, and got me medical attention.” Moss added that Depp “never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs”.
Depp won his defamation case against ex-wife Heard in which a jury found that the actress had defamed Depp.
Despite Heard’s allegations of abuse throughout the six-week trial, which took place on camera, the jury found that a column she wrote for The Washington Post about domestic violence was defamatory and awarded $10.35m (£8.2m) in damages to Depp, even though the article did not name him.
