… confidential statement that AH has made?
KJ no
DS why did you take exception to what AH said in her 5th witness statement
KJ because she took a story about ME being violently raped in Brazil 26 years ago and she twisted it into her own story and she used it for her own use.

DS you were asked by Ms Wass about mr Franco and what AH said about Ms Franco and you used the word rapey - is that a word you heard AH use or someone else
KJ AH

DS you asked when you last spoke to JD and you said 5 years and then the text from 4 years ago and you were shown a text from AH about a flight with JD and you also said you had texts from her between 2am and 4am - you said she was drunk texting you. We have very few texts...

… between you and AH. Why have we got so few texts between you and AH - the ones which have been supplied.
KJ yes because I was using a phone logged into her icloud account and then when she terminated my employment she deleted all thetexts out of the cloud. Any that were...

… abusive of course she saved.
DS have you come to this court to lie on JD’s behalf
KJ absolutely not
DS have you come to court to lie
KJ absolutely not
DS did you have to come to court
KJ I’ve been subpoena’d so yes
DS are you dependent on JD
KJ no I’ve been blessed to work...

… for one of kindest men in Hollywood - so no
DS and before you worked for AH were you used to working for well known people
KJ I would say that out of the people I have worked for AH is the least well known of all of them

[KJ;s evidence ends and the videolink is terminated]
[I suggest that you look out for the transcript of KJ’s answers to QC - I will post them on twitter as soon as I get the transcript. One of the journalists here may post them online sooner as they are one of the strongest...

… of the day.]

[sorry - i understated that - I should have said by far the most explosive of the trial so far]

Let’s dig out the bits from KJ’s 2nd witness statement:

1. I work as a personal assistant to high profile people in the entertainment industry. I have been working in that capacity in Los Angeles for approximately 20 years. I worked for Amber Heard from around March 2012 until February 2015.

4. This is my second statement. I make it in response to paragraph 43 only of Amber Heard’s Fifth Witness Statement.

5. When I was 26 years old and traveling in Brazil, I was violently raped by an unknown male at Machete point, having been woken by the perpetrator whilst sleeping alone in my dwelling. This ordeal went on for 5-6 hours and I narrowly escaped with my life.

This torturous experience of such extreme sexual violence has haunted me ever since and permanently changed the trajectory of my life to this day. Over the years, I have shared this incident with many close friends, family and therapists.

6. In 2013, Ms Heard became aware of what happened to me as I had talked about it with a friend of hers at her apartment. Ms Heard then summoned me to her office where we sat on her couch and she questioned me about it, she was curious as to how I coped with it on

way to cope.

7. On June 25, 2020, I received documents pertaining to my involvement on behalf of the Claimant in this case. As I perused the documents, much to my utter shock and dismay, I discovered that Ms Heard had in fact stolen my sexual violence conversation with her and

twisted it into her own story to benefit herself. This of course caused me extreme distress and outrage that she would dare to attempt to use the most harrowing experience of my life as her own narrative.

ENDS

This was the exact quote from KJ which the judge cut in on:

"I’m a sexual violence survivor and that is very very serious to take that stance if you’re not one and I am one and that’s the reason I’m here because I take offence…"

I am going to describe what is going on as facutally as possible, and it may be that this is just the end of a very long day, half way through a long trial, but Kate James has just accused AH in open court of stealing her traumatic life experience of being raped and...

… putting it in her witness statement. This witness statement has not been released to the public yet because we only get to see it once the witness has been sworn in. AH is due to be sworn in on Friday (though the way this trial is going…)

… and she will undoubtedly be cross-examined on this. Obviously if she admits fabricating this story the trial will collapse. If she maintains it is true (which it may well be), she will have to be able to be able to give a credible account of it in court.

To say this caused a flurry of activity amongst the reporters in court would be an understatement. This, I suggest, is “a developing situation".

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I’ll post the transcript as soon as I get it.

Here is the exact quote from Kate James on Amber Heard.

David Sherborne: Was she the first well known person you had worked with in Hollywood?

Kate James: She is probably the least known person I’ve ever worked with in Hollywood, to be honest.

Kate James’ first witness statement:

1. I work as a personal assistant to high profile people in the entertainment industry. I have been working in that capacity in Los Angeles for approximately 20 years. I worked for Amber
Heard from around March 2012 until February 2015.

2. Unless stated otherwise, the facts and matters referred to in this witness statement are within my own knowledge and true or are true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief based on sources stated within this witness statement.

3. I make this witness statement in support of the Claimant’s claim in these proceedings.

4. I do not know the full details of the Claimant's claims against the Defendants in these proceedings.

Start of my employment by Amber Heard

5. I had not heard of Amber at the time that I was hired. My son was 4 years old at the time, and Amber was looking for someone part-time and she lived in the same neighbourhood as me
which is an important factor in LA with the traffic to consider.