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it. I’d be crying my eyes out and they’d
be like ‘Well, we’ll just get you some
drugs and like you can have a drink and
then you’ll be fine’. ”
When asked how she dealt with KateAmber Heard suffers from personality
disorders associated with “self-right-
eous” moods, a well of “inner anger”
and dramatic or even violent behav-
iour, a psychologist hired by lawyers for
her ex-husband Johnny Depp told a
court in Virginia.
Shannon Curry said she met with
Heard, 36, for twelve hours to assess
her claims that she developed post-
traumatic stress disorder as a re-
sult of abuse she had suffered
during her relationship with
Depp.
Depp, 58, says the claims,
which he denies, destroyed
his reputation and ended his
role as Captain Jack Spar-
row in Disney’s Pirates of
the Caribbean series.
Amber Heard arriving
at court yesterday
‘Rage-filled’ Heard has personality
disorder, claims Depp psychologist
Will Pavia New York PTSD is “a really difficult disorder to
find out if someone’s faking it or not”,
Curry told the court. She concluded
that Heard had “grossly exaggerated”
her symptoms and had borderline
personality disorder and histrionic
personality disorder, she said.
People with these disorders tend to
use “very flowery” language with
“lots of descriptive words like
‘magical’, ‘wonderful’ [and] it can
go on for quite some time but it
really lacks any substance,” she
said.
Curry said the disorders
were associated with a tend-
ency “to judge others criti-
cally... but also to deny do-
ing that” and to claim “that
one is non-judgmental and
accepting” while “full of
rage”.
“They can react violent-
ly, they can react physical-
ly,” she said. “Oftentimes
they will be abusive to their partners.”
Heard’s lawyer asked if she had
examined testimonies from doctors
who believed that Heard was a victim of
domestic violence. Curry said she had
read them, but added that psychologists
were not investigators and she did not
know if such abuses had taken place.
Yesterday jurors heard from police
officers who were called to the pent-
house the couple had shared in Los
Angeles on May 21, 2016, after reports
of a fight. Six days after this, Heard
sought a restraining order against
Depp, arriving at a court house with a
mark on her face and alleging that it
had been inflicted by her husband.
In recorded testimony played for the
court, Tyler Hadden, one of the police
officers who went to the penthouse on
May 21, said that Heard had no signs of
injury, but had been crying. “Just
because I see a female with pink cheeks
and pink eyes doesn’t mean something
happened,” he said. Another officer,William Gatlin, also said he saw no sign
of injury, though he admitted that he
did not examine her closely.
Jurors previously heard from wit-
nesses who claimed to have seen Heard
and her sister practising fake punches
in the days after the reported fight.
Heard, whose lawyers are yet to present
their case, are expected to call on
friends of the actress who were in the
penthouse at the time of the fight.
This week the jury also heard from
Tara Roberts, the manager of Depp’s
Caribbean island, who recalled the
couple having an argument in which
Heard told him “he was a washed up ac-
tor” and would “die a lonely old man”.
She said Heard grabbed Depp and tried
to pull him back to their house, and that
she interposed herself and took him to
a café on the island where she iced an
injury he claimed to have suffered
when she threw a can at him. During
cross-examination she acknowledged
that she had not seen this take place.Lottie Moss: I was given drugs before photoshoots
The model Lottie Moss has described
how she was given drugs and alcohol on
days when she could not face doing a
photoshoot.
Moss, 24, who went into rehab in
February to tackle her cocaine use, said
she was given a lot of the drugs and
drink at times when she was unhappy in
her work and sometimes in tears.
She recalled an occasion in Rome
when she was crying while her make-
up was being applied, and she said that
at interviews she was ordered what to
say rather than allowed to be her nat-
ural self.
Moss, the half-sister of Kate Moss,
was speaking to Alex Cooper yesterday
on the Call Her Daddy podcast. She said
that people in the industry tried to turn
her into someone else. “They wanted
me to be Kate Moss part two.”
She went on: “I was about 18 when I
first experimented with drugs. It was
accepted.
“A lot of the time I would show up and
I would not be happy. I didn’t want to dofinding out about the extent of her drug
use, she said: “I think my sister probably
thought it was kind of like inevitable.”
She said her parents were unaware of
her drug use. “I love my mum and dad
and I didn’t want them to be dis-
appointed in me. Because they were so
proud of me. I just thought ‘Oh my god,
I just can’t break their hearts’,” she said.
She has recently given up her work
promoting luxury brands and is doing
nude modelling, and says that she is
much happier.Met officer
wanted sex
with girl, 13
A Metropolitan Police counterterror-
ism officer has been jailed for five-and-
a-half years for arranging to meet a
13-year-old girl for sex.
Francois Olwage, 52, a detective con-
stable with the Met’s specialist opera-
tions unit, was convicted of three offen-
ces of grooming a person he had met on
the Lycos online chat forum whom he
believed to be a 13-year-old girl, and a
fourth charge of abusing his position as
a police officer.
Winchester crown court heard that
Olwage had in fact been chatting with
an undercover police officer using the
username of Smile Bear, before moving
to WhatsApp with the name Caitlin.
The trial was told that after two
weeks of explicit sexual conversations
in October 2021, Olwage, of Stevenage,
arranged to meet the “girl”, who told
him she lived in Basingstoke.
He was arrested at a McDonald’s in
the town by two undercover officers as
he was about to buy a McFlurry ice
cream to take to his meeting with “Cait-
lin”. In his bag were two condoms and
erectile dysfunction tablets.
Adrienne Knight, defending, said the
police operation had come “very close
indeed” to entrapment.
Olwage, who was suspended on his
arrest, remains a serving officer until a
misconduct hearing on May 31.Fang may be
from longest
ancient beast
Tom Whipple Science EditorIs it one of the longest animals ever? Or
is it just a bit long in the tooth?
At the top of the Alps lies the bottom
of the Triassic sea bed. And in the
200 million-year-old rock there, scien-
tists have found an ichthyosaur tooth
bigger than any found before.
The size of the tooth, part of a small
collection of bones uncovered on Swiss
mountaintops, is further evidence that
these reptiles may have been among
the largest animals ever to have lived.
“For all we know, there were blue
whale-sized ichthyosaurs,” said Martin
Sander, from the University of Bonn.
In the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontol-
ogy he and his colleagues have pub-
lished an analysis of the bones, which
would have been scattered across the
seabed, and may have come from
several different creatures and possibly
different species too.
Previously, the largest tooth from
one of the aquatic reptiles came from a
beast estimated at 15m long. This tooth
has twice the diameter, suggesting that
its owner could be bigger still — an im-
plication backed up by one of the other
bones being among the longest trunk
vertebrae ever found.
However, without a larger skeleton
the scientists say it is difficult to be cer-
tain. “It is hard to say if the tooth is from
a large ichthyosaur with giant teeth or
from a giant ichthyosaur with average-
sized teeth,” said Sander.
Whichever is the case, Sander said
that it was unlikely that these would be
the largest ichthyosaurs in the ocean at
the time, precisely because they have
teeth. Among whales, the largest spe-
cies are filter feeders, which do not have
teeth. Jawbones discovered in the
southwest of England hint that ichthy-
osaurs also fed in this way.What lies beneath Lewis Jefferies has been crowned underwater photographer of the year for this shot of a compass jellyfish drifting past a paddleboarder off Falmouth
LEWIS JEFFERIES/SWNSLottie Moss says
that she would
often cry at work