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For this reason, Johnny Depp’s lawyers rejoiced at Amber Heard’s Kate Moss mention

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For this reason, Johnny Depp’s lawyers rejoiced at Amber Heard’s Kate Moss mention

After Amber Heard mentioned British model and Johnny Depp’s ex Kate Moss in her testimony earlier this week, Johnny and his legal team were seen celebrating. Many people have speculated as to why this reaction occurred, but now a source close to the legal team has revealed the truth.

Amber Heard repeated an allegation about Johnny concerning Kate during her court testimony on Monday. She claimed that during their relationship in the 1990s, Johnny had pushed Kate down the stairs. Amber claimed this in a British court case in 2020, as well.

Many people were perplexed by Johnny and his legal team’s joyous response. “Amber mentioned an ex of Johnny’s that clearly she felt was not supportive of him, which couldn’t be further from the truth,” a source close to Johnny Depp told the New York Post. According to the source, Johnny and his lawyer Benjamin Chew made the gesture as a ‘celebratory acknowledgement.’

Legal experts argue that Amber mentioning Kate here allows Johnny’s team to call on the supermodel to refute the testimony, thus casting doubt on Amber’s credibility. “[Kate Moss] is still allegedly friends with Johnny, and her testimony was previously barred because it was not as relevant. “By bringing up Kate Moss, [Amber] potentially opened the door for [Johnny’s team] to call [Kate] on as an impeachment witness,” California entertainment lawyer Mitra Ahouraian told the New York Post.

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On Monday, Amber was reminiscing about a fight she had with Johnny in March 2015, which also involved her sister Whitney Heard, who was attempting to protect her. She said, “Johnny swings at (Whitney) with her back to the stairwell. I don’t think twice, I don’t think twice — I just think of Kate Moss and stairs. I swung at him as well. I hadn’t landed a blow in my entire relationship with Johnny. And I hit him square in the face for the first time. He didn’t even try to push my sister down the stairs.”

Johnny and his lead attorney Ben Chew smiled as soon as Amber said ‘Kate Moss and the stairs,’ as seen in a YouTube video. Ben turned to face his teammates and pumped his fist. He then turned to Johnny, who was seated next to him, and addressed him.

Amber first claimed that Johnny pushed Kate down the stairs during the trial of Johnny’s failed lawsuit against The Sun for calling him a ‘wife-beater.’ Amber had claimed at the time that she had heard from two sources that Johnny had pushed Kate down a stairwell while they were dating in the 1990s. At the trial, Johnny’s lawyers claimed that this story was a complete fabrication. Johnny and Kate were together from 1994 to 1997.

The ongoing trial in Virginia between Johnny and Amber is based on an article Amber wrote for the Washington Post in 2018. Amber had mentioned being a domestic abuse survivor, but not by the name of Johnny. The implication, according to Johnny, harmed his career. While filming The Rum Diary, Johnny and Amber met. They married in 2015 but divorced after less than two years. Amber has claimed that her ex-husband subjected her to physical and sexual abuse. Johnny has denied all of the allegations, claiming that it was Amber who abused him.

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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill

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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill

To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe

VVS Laxman went through the first half of his illustrious 15-and-a-half-year international career with the proverbial axe hanging over him. Despite his magical stroke-play and a well-founded reputation for rallying the lower order to bat above itself, he was forever the first name that sprang to the decision-makers’ minds when they had to drop someone to accommodate someone else. It wasn’t until the second half of his stint with the national team that he had ‘job security’, which automatically manifested itself in an array of glorious, match-turning knocks and earmarked him as one for a crisis.

KL Rahul is now dangerously close to approaching the Laxman territory, though at least in this instance, a case can be made out, perhaps, for why he often seems to be playing for his place. Almost a decade after his Test debut in Australia in December 2014, he has yet to nail down a permanent spot, a result of glaring inconsistency and repeated dalliances with injuries that have left him with a modest average of 33.87 from 53 Test appearances.

Unlike Laxman, who was thrust to the opener’s position for three years from 1997, successive team managements have worked overtime to create space for Rahul. He started off in the middle order in Melbourne against Australia, opened in the next Test in Sydney when he made a sparkling century, continued in that position for a good nine years – around the large pockets when either injuries or lack of form relegated him to the sidelines – and now seems to have found his calling in the middle order, where he was tried out in an almost last throw of the dice in South Africa last December.

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In his limited time at the No. 6 position, Rahul has been a revelation. On a spiteful surface in Centurion in his first innings back in the middle order, the classy right-hander made a marvellous 101 – Virat Kohli’s 38 was the next highest score – in India’s 245 all out. Two Tests later, against England in Hyderabad, he waltzed to 86 of the best until a hamstring strain kept him out of the last four Tests.

On his comeback last month against Bangladesh, Rahul showed why he is rated so highly, and therefore why he so frustrates when he chooses to shackle himself mentally, with uninhibited shot-making when India were pressing for a declaration (Chennai) and looking to make up for lost time with a frenetic batting approach (Kanpur) in the two Tests. Kanpur was especially mesmeric, 68 flowing off his bat in a mere 43 deliveries. It was the best of Rahul.

Axe hangs over Rahul’s head for India vs New Zealand 2nd Test

And yet here we are, two innings later, wondering whether he will, or should, feature in the playing XI in Pune, where India take on New Zealand in a must-win second Test from Thursday.

Shubman Gill, him of three centuries in his last six Tests, missed the Bengaluru defeat to the Kiwis with a stiff neck. Replacement batter Sarfaraz Khan made the most of own good fortune with a delectable 150, which makes it near impossible to drop him now that Gill is fully fit. To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula which has worked beautifully in the last few years, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe.

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One of the few men to have led India in all three formats internationally, Rahul didn’t help his cause with scores of 0 and 12 at his home ground, the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In the first innings, he was strangled down leg-side by William O’Rourke while in the second, he received a peach from the same paceman operating with the second new ball and was again caught behind. Rahul was one of 11 failures in India’s first-innings 46 and one of seven wickets to fall in 93 deliveries to the second new cherry, but failures past and the logjam created by Gill’s availability have combined to identify him as the most susceptible to the axe.

It’s a cross impossible to bear, but also impossible to ignore just because it is so heavy, so overarching. Rahul is beyond gifted and makes batting appear oh-so-simple, but his struggles to embrace sustained run-making can’t be wished away. He is the eternal team man, much like his celebrated namesake also from Karnataka – both kept wickets admirably in 50-over World Cups 21 years apart, both made attractive and impactful runs during the tournament and both tasted bitter defeat at the hands of Australia in the final – but ‘eternal team man’ can sometimes be an euphemism for the ‘most dispensable’ and Rahul can be excused for thinking that those two lines have blurred beyond repair. Of course, if he is brutally honest to himself, he will acknowledge at least to himself that he too must bear culpability for the blurring of the lines.

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