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LOS ANGELES: The continuing felony fight between ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ megastar Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard has taken an enchanting flip as Heard’s former assistant Kate James, has testified towards her boss’s claims of bodily abuse by the hands of Depp within the court docket, studies ‘Insider’.
Heard is being sued by way of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, for $50 million, on allegations that she defamed him by way of describing herself as a “determine representing home violence” in a 2018 op-ed within the ‘Washington Put up’.
As in keeping with ‘Insider’, Heard replied to the lawsuit by way of countersuing Depp, and alleging that he bodily assaulted her on 10 events during their courting. The couple parted techniques in 2016, after Heard filed for a protecting order in court docket, with what seemed to be a bruise on her face.
Depp’s legal professionals offered a prerecorded video of Kate to the jurors. Right through her duration of running for Heard as her private assistant from 2012 to 2015, Kate argued that she by no means witnessed Heard and Depp entering verbal or bodily altercations, nor did she realize any proof of home violence all over her common visits to the couple’s respective houses.
On the other hand, she stated Heard did touch her in misery after arriving again at their house in Los Angeles after a non-public flight with Depp in Might 2014. For the stated incident, Heard alleged in court docket filings that Depp kicked her and threw gadgets at her at the flight as a result of he used to be disillusioned a couple of romantic scene she had filmed the day prior with James Franco.
Kate additionally recalled how she used to be on the receiving finish of humiliation and abuse from Heard when she requested for an larger wage. ‘Insider’ studies that she stated she to begin with took the placement for $25 in keeping with hour for the reason that agenda used to be versatile sufficient for her so that you can pick out up her son after faculty.
However about six months into the process, James stated, it become a full-time place. She says Heard screamed at her when she driven again towards the $50,000 wage Heard introduced, which she stated used to be about part of what she in most cases makes.
Recalling the incident, Kate stated, “She (Heard) leapt out of her chair and put her face roughly 4 inches from my face, spitting in my face, how dare I ask for the wage I am soliciting for.”