The love story of Johnny Depp, an actor in low hours
Johnny Depp turns 53 this Thursday immersed in the controversy over the accusations of domestic violence made by his still wife Amber Heard, who has been seen in the press with his face beaten after apparently having suffered beatings and mistreatment at the hands of the actor . The marriage has barely lasted fifteen months. In addition to this thorny issue, of which the media is publishing juicy news about it every day, is added the recent death of Depp's mother, Betty Sue, with whom he was very close. In fact, according to the news portal TMZ, the mother of the famous interpreter would have once described his daughter-in-law as a “horrible person”.
On a professional level, the actor is not exactly going through his best moment either, since the premiere of Alice Through the Looking Glass, in which he returns to incarnate the role of the Mad Hatter, has not aroused the enthusiasm of critics and the public either. And this is not his last professional failure. In his performance in Mortdecai he did not come out well either and in Transcendence he was beaten by critics.
At the end of 2014 he assured that he was withdrawing from the world of cinema to enter a detoxification center and overcome his addiction to alcohol. The trigger was the painful incident he starred in during the awards ceremony of the Hollywood Documentary Awards, when the actor took the stage to present an award completely drunk and CBS cut the broadcast. Far from overcoming his addiction to drinking, these days Depp has been photographed bottle in hand in different bars in Stockholm and Budapest with the members of his band Hollywood Vampires, with whom he is touring Europe. The images have not sat well on social networks and have been the subject of criticism by some users, who do not find Johnny's carefree attitude at all correct in the face of the complicated situation that has been thrown at him.
The divorce between Depp and Heard, who met during the filming of The Rum Diaries while the actor was still with Vanessa Paradis, is one of the most controversial in Hollywood. On the occasion of the open war between the two, we review the intense list of women who have marked the sentimental life of the unforgettable interpreter of Eduardo Manostijeras.
1. LORI ANNE ALLISON (1983-1985)
At just 20 years old, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, a Hollywood makeup artist with whom he fell madly in love. They said 'yes, I do' on Christmas Eve 1983 and in 1985 the divorce came. Recently Allison has come out in defense of the actor assuring that he is incapable of hurting any woman and that during his short marriage he was always very kind and attentive to her.
2. SHERILYN FENN (1986-1988)
It didn't take long for Depp to find solace alongside a fellow professional, the pretty Sherilyn Fenn, who would become popular for her role as Audrey Horne on the cult series Twin Peaks. It was his first famous girlfriend. They coincided in the series New policemen, of which he was the protagonist and also in the short film Dummies. They got engaged in 1988, but it didn't take long for them to realize that their careers took them to different cities and they decided to put an end to their relationship.
3. JENNIFER GRAY (1989)
After breaking up with Fenn, Johnny also dated the Dirty Dancing protagonist for a few months, although the subject was never very serious.
4. WINONA RYDER (1989-1993)
Ryder was only 17 when he met Depp in June 1989 at the premiere of Big Fireball. They coincided again in the filming of Eduardo Manostijeras (1990) and there the passion arose. Their relationship went through many ups and downs but the love they professed made Johnny get to get a tattoo on his arm "Winona Forever". The couple broke up in 1993. The actress always said that he was her great love, the man with whom she had sex for the first time and will always carry him in her heart. According to Ryder, the relationship failed because she was too young.
5. TRACY LORDS (1990)
Despite professing his love for Winona, while they were together he cheated on the interpreter of Sirens with Tracy Lords, a porn actress whom he met on the set of Cry Baby, the musical directed by John Waters in 1990. The thing remained in a simple affair, but it was clear that Depp was not a one-woman man.
6. KATE MOSS (1994-1997)
The actor began dating the British top model in February 1994 and they formed one of the most iconic couples of the time. Their turbulent relationship, in which drugs, passion and violence were not lacking, according to the writer Maureen Callahan in his book Champagne Supernovas, lasted for four years. When the couple broke up, Moss had a hard time and had to go to a rehab center. The model assured that the actor took good care of her while they were together and that he taught her a very important advice to deal with fame. “I was lucky to be with Johnny… She taught me a lot about fame. She told me: never complain, never explain yourself, '”she said in an interview.
7. VANESSA PARADIS (1998-2012)
The actor's longest relationship was with the French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, 43, with whom she had her two children: Lily Rose and Jack. Both shared fourteen years together but never passed through the altar.
Johnny met Joe Le Taxi singer in Paris in 1998, and it was love at first sight, he said. Within a few months of dating, Vanessa became pregnant. Their relationship also went through difficult times and they were on the verge of breaking up on several occasions. Apparently, the reason for the breakup was that the spark of love was extinguished and the actor had commented to his friends that he was bored with it. They announced their separation in June 2012 and, after ending their relationship, it was agreed that Paradis would receive 120 million euros from the actor. Both Vanessa and her children have come to Depp's defense following harsh accusations from Amber Heard. In a handwritten letter published by TMZ, Paradis described the father of her two children as "sensitive, loving and beloved."
8. MARION COTILLARD (2008)
He had a brief romance with the Oscar-winning French actress while filming the movie Public Enemies. Needless to say, she had been with Paradis for ten years at that time, but she apparently forgave the infidelity.
Cotillard always spoke phenomenally of Depp and even confessed that it helped him to work his role a lot: "He was very kind, a true gentleman, he was always there for me," he said.
9. AMBER HEARD (2011-2016)
The 30-year-old Texan actress met Depp during the filming of The Rum Diaries (2011), a film that was an absolute failure at the box office but that united their hearts. She, declared bisexual, was dating photographer Tasya Van Reen at the time, but assured that she fell madly in love with the interpreter of Pirates of the Caribbean. Amber was not always convinced that Johnny was "the one", due to his "vice" for drinking, but in the end they got married in February 2015. At the end of last May the actress filed a divorce claim claiming " irreconcilable differences ”. The separation took place on Sunday, May 22, just two days after the death of the actor's mother. The war between the two has only just begun.
