‘I punched Depp to save my sister’ says actress

AMBER HEARD has claimed she punched Johnny Depp to stop him pushing her sister down the stairs after remembering a “rumour” he had done the same to Kate Moss.

The Aquaman actress told the High Court that this “information” was “fresh in my mind” during the alleged incident in 2015, and she reacted “in a flash” to protect her sibling.

Ms Heard, 34, made the claim in her second day of giving evidence in her ex-husband’s libel action against The Sun newspaper over a 2018 article which labelled him a “wife beater”.

The actress has also rejected suggestions Tesla founder Elon Musk visited her while Mr Depp, 57, was away.

Yesterday, Eleanor Laws QC, representing Mr Depp, asked about the “stairs incident” in Los Angeles in March 2015 when Ms Heard has said she believed Mr Depp was going to push her sister, Whitney Henriquez, down the stairs.

The barrister said: “This was a very nasty row between you and Mr Depp and it was you who was the violent one.”

Ms Heard replied: “Johnny hit both myself and my sister”, before denying that she spat at the Pirates Of The Caribbean star, or threw a can of Red Bull at him. Ms Laws then put it to Ms Heard that she also “punched him (Mr Depp) in the face with a closed fist”.

Ms Heard replied: “I did strike Johnny that day in defence of my sister.

“He was about to push her down the stairs and, the moment before that happened, I remembered information I had heard (that) he pushed a former girlfriend – I believe it was Kate Moss – down the stairs.”

The actor is suing NGN and The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton over an article in 2018 which he claims is libellous.

The case continues.