Johnny Depp confesses: Me, saved by my children
Jack and Lily Rose Depp are Johnny Depp's lifeline
I AM THE RESCUE ROPE. The only concrete grip that does not make it sink. The last few years have not been easy for Johnny Depp. Only the constant and stable presence of his children helped him to overcome a very difficult moment. A change visibly. And the cure is called Jack and Lily Rose Depp. "My children are everything to me," he said on American television.
Very thin, emaciated, staggering as he leaves the premises. For too long Johnny has been a shadow of himself. As if, in the end, Tim Burton's prophecy had found its fulfillment. "Be reluctant," she had called him. The stormy and public divorce from Amber Heard was the final blow to a man who could barely bear star status. "He had to prepare for a role." This was the excuse distributed when the circulating photos of him frightened us.
Instead, a new man arrived in Venice in September. Smiling even on the red carpet. More unique than rare case. Sometimes chatty with journalists. Another fact to mark on the calendar. It featured a movie in which he plays the villain (Waiting for the barbarians). He left the Lagoon with the best daddy star in the world. Astounding everyone, once again, he had not evaded the questions about the private sector. On the children. Lily Rose Depp, in particular. “I'm so proud of her. He could have made millionaire films, blockbusters and for which they would have paid a lot. Instead he made his debut with Natalie Portman in a small movie. And she continued to choose independent films, courageous, risky, even small parts ... She and her brother are a bit like my gods ... ".
He shows the most human and fragile side of himself only when he talks about Jack and Lily Rose, born from the relationship with Vanessa Paradis in 2002 and 1999 respectively. Watch him in this clip, guest of Graham Norton's English show. He gets excited remembering «the darkest period of my life». That is, the weeks spent at Lily's bedside who had become seriously ill as a child.
It is with her that Johnny Depp has a special relationship. «He tells me everything. He's not afraid to tell me anything. We are super connected and I am very proud of our relationship. I completely trust her and her choices. But I don't think the day will ever come when I will stop worrying about her, "he explained a few years ago in an interview.
With Jack, however, the relationship is much more playful. The second child doesn't like the spotlight. Not even social networks, to be honest. And father and mother hardly name him. But when they do, there is always a lot of irony. Like when Johnny Depp, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, revealed that he will never give driving lessons to his son. “My boyfriend has my instincts. And at 15 he has already smashed at least 5 golf carts. And he doesn't play golf. '
If Johnny Depp is back what he was, he owes it to his boys. "I'm very proud of them," he often repeats. With them he tried to rebuild a life and a career after the parenthesis, all to be forgotten, of the marriage with Amber Heard (which the two of them seem never to have liked. Indeed, Jack just couldn't see her). And even if there are still millionaire lawsuits at stake with the ex-wife, the worst is behind us.
