Photo Johnny Depp’s lawyers say ‘proves’ Amber Heard is lying

A candid happy snap with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is the latest key piece of evidence in the Johnny Depp libel case.

A photo of Amber Heard with Johnny Depp and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was submitted to a London court on Tuesday – to try to prove the actress was lying about a supposed beating she got from the actor.

“Do you agree that there is absolutely no injury on your face in this photo?” Depp’s lawyer, Eleanor Laws, asked Heard – who was on the witness stand for her second straight day of testimony in Depp’s sensational libel case against a British tabloid.

The photo in question, L-R: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Keith Richards and Heard’s sister Whitney.

The Aquaman actress – who is smiling as she stands between Depp and Richards, with her lookalike younger sister Whitney on the rocker’s other side, in the snapshot – has said she was assaulted by the actor the night before the March 2013 photo.

Heard at first told Depp’s lawyer on Tuesday that she couldn’t tell from the photograph whether it showed her injuries, then added, “It looks like my lip was slightly swollen.”

Laws asked, “Does this photo show you before or after you were hit by Mr Depp?”

Heard shot back, “Which time? There were a lot of incidents in March.”

Depp is suing The Sun* for referring to him as a “wife beater” in a 2018 headline based on Heard’s claims he repeatedly assaulted her throughout their relationship. Depp denies ever hitting Heard.

DEPP ‘PUSHED KATE MOSS DOWN THE STAIRS’, HEARD CLAIMS

Depp and Kate Moss in 1998.

Amber Heard said she stepped in to prevent her sister Whitney Henriquez from being thrown down the stairs by Johnny Depp after remembering a “rumour” of the same thing happening to Kate Moss, London’s High Court heard on Tuesday.

Heard, 34, told the court she hit Depp, 57, in defence of her sister after remembering the “rumour” she had heard about Depp’s former girlfriend, the supermodel Kate Moss.

“I did strike Johnny that day in defence of my sister, he was about to push her down the stairs,” she told the court about the alleged incident in March 2015.

“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,” she said.

“I had heard this rumour from two people and it was fresh in my mind.

“In a flash I reacted in defence of her.

“For years, Johnny’s punched (me) and for years I had never even hit him. I never so much as landed a blow and I will never forget this incident … it was the first time after all these years (I hit him back),” Heard said.

Eleanor Laws, QC, acting for Johnny Depp, said, “You just added that bit in about Kate Moss. You’ve changed your story.”

Heard denied it, saying, “That’s always what it has been.”

“This is the first time you’ve mentioned it, do you agree?” Ms Laws pressed, to which Heard replied, “I don’t know.”

Moss and Depp dated in the 1990s when she was 20 and he was 31. Depp has denied hitting her while they were together.

– With Victoria Craw

This article originally appeared on the NY Post and was republished with permission.

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