(AP photo)Johnny Depp’s former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder will no longer be appearing as witnesses in the star’s libel suit against a British tabloid newspaper that accused him of assaulting ex-wife Amber Heard, a lawyer said today. Paradis and Ryder had been scheduled to testify as witnesses on Depp’s behalf in the U.K. High Court case. Depp’s lawyer, David Sherborne, said Thursday that he no longer needed to call them because The Sun does not contest Depp’s claim that he never hit them. In a written witness statement disclosed at a pretrial hearing, Ryder said Depp “was never, never violent towards me. Heard is due to give her side of the story in evidence later in the trial, which is scheduled to last three weeks.-AP

Source: The Standard July 16, 2020 11:26 UTC