8th day
No Winona Ryder or Vanessa Paradis yesterday but there were interesting statements as well.

KATHERINE KENDALL Article

Actress and MeToo campaigner Katherine Kendall to give evidence saying she was 'misquoted' in Sun article.

Ms Kendall, who is most famous for appearing in the 1996 film Swingers, was quoted in the 2018 article by The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton at the centre of the case, and sent a furious complaint to the newspaper afterwards.

“I never meant to be in an article that called Johnny Depp a ‘wife beater’”, she wrote. “I told you that I didn’t know that to be true at all!

I have heard SEVERAL times that she was in fact abusive to him. He’s never been a convicted ‘wife beater’.

“Even a picture only makes it ‘seem’ so. I’m telling you that you misquoted me and intentionally took things I said out of context in what I now realise was your purpose in defaming Johnny Depp.

“I told you I have heard Amber Heard hit him, which is why as you know I don’t condone ‘any’ violence. You have improperly tried to use the #MeToo movement for your purposes by using me in this way.”

SEAN BETT Article

Bett, who formerly served with the LA county sheriff’s department, said: “I was with Mr Depp and Ms Heard very regularly throughout this period and I never saw any cuts, bruises or other injuries on Ms Heard. I also never saw Mr Depp commit any act of physical violence to another person.”

“I was also told by Mr Depp on multiple occasions that Ms Heard had physically abused him. A very common occurrence throughout the relationship would be that Mr Depp would have me, and other members of his security team, take him away from Ms Heard, due to her behaviour. He would then stay somewhere else.

“Ms Heard often behaved in this way when she had been drinking. I learnt quickly to recognise the signs, so that we were able to leave the situation before it escalated further.”

He said he had never seen Depp being violent to anyone, including Heard. “ I have observed Ms Heard throwing bottles, glasses and other objects at Mr Depp while being verbally abusive towards him. As a rule, during these episodes Mr Depp remains fairly passive and either tries to calm Ms Heard down or remove himself from the situation.”