Once the judges of the legal dispute between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard deliberated against the star of the film ‘Aquaman’, many witness statements that were presented at the trial have been taken up and strengthened in recent two days.
One of them is that of Kate James, a former personal worker of the actress, who in 2020 accused her of having stolen his own history as a victim of sexual violence, when the first defamation trial between the couple took place and in which Depp lost against The Sun newspaper, which called him a “beater of women”.
At that time, the former assistant presented some complaints against Heard for the alleged mistreatment of which she was a victim while working for her, among which she stated that she received a very low salary for more than a decade for occupations ranging from shopping and taking care of administration, to running errands and fixing their cars.
“He paid me $25 dollars per hour to start with and finally agreed after yelling insults at me, that he would pay me $25 thousand a year once start working full time,” James said at the time.
However, during the second and most recent trial, Heard’s former employee revealed that she had been a victim of sexual abuse in Brazil when she was 20 years and that when reading the presentations of the actress, he noticed that she had taken her story to build accusations against the protagonist of ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory’.
“ To my utter shock and dismay, I discovered that Ms. Heard had stolen my conversation about sexual violence. This of course caused me extreme anguish and outrage,” Kate stated.
“She had turned it into her own story to benefit herself. He dared to try to use the most harrowing experience of my life as his own narrative”
Kate James
In addition, Kate James stressed that, although she had been called to testify, she was also doing so to set a precedent that one should not lie about being “a survivor of sexual violence and it is very serious to adopt that position if you are not.”