Heard’s former assistant claimed that the actress replicated her history of violence in a 2020 trial – El Financiero

After the verdict was announced after six weeks of the trial, which reached a hearing record among Johnny Depp y Amber Heardwhich favors the protagonist of Pirates of the Caribbean with a compensation of 15 million dollars, a testimony who offered the actress’s former assistant of Aquaman between 2012 and 2015.

Kate James declared in 2020 in a UK court -in the middle of the legal dispute that Depp lost against The Sun after they called him a “beater of women” – who worked for a salary of 25 dollars an hour and who, after mistreatment, shouting and insults, managed to get him to agree to pay him 50 thousand dollars a year. Nevertheless, what caught the most attention was that he accused her of stealing her own story to use it against the actor.

What did Amber Heard’s former assistant say?

According to your version, when she was 26 years old she was a victim of sexual violence in Brazil, an experience she shared with Heard. That is why he assures that the actress took parts of that story to build her case.

“To my utter shock and dismay, I discovered that Ms. Heard had stolen my conversation about sexual violence with her and she had made it her own story to benefit herself. This of course caused me extreme anguish and outrage because he would dare to attempt use the most harrowing experience of my life as its own narrative”, he said then in court.

After the jury in Fairfax, Virginia, concluded on June 1 that Heard maliciously defamed Depp (although it also ruled in his favor), Heard reacted by pointing out that it was a setback for women.

Two years ago, James challenged her by saying that you shouldn’t lie about being a survivor of sexual violence. “It is very serious to adopt that position if you are not”.

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