Depp spoke to Rolling Stone about his acrimonious divorce from Amber Heard, and the bizarre stories about his spending habits that emerged last year.
After a tumultuous couple of years which saw him divorce Amber Heard amid allegations of domestic abuse, combined with a publicised court case regarding financial troubles, Johnny Depp has spoken out in an attempt to clear up rumours about his personal life.
The 55 year old Pirates of the Caribbean star spoke to Rolling Stone magazine this week, opening up in quite some detail about his emotional state as he recalled 2017, saying “I was as low as I believe I could have gotten.”
“The next step was, ‘You’re going to arrive somewhere with your eyes open and you’re going to leave with your eyes closed’,” he adds. “I couldn’t take the pain every day.”
Depp settled the acrimonious divorce from Heard in August 2016, but claims over domestic abuse have dogged him since, with many calling for him to lose his role in the next Fantastic Beasts film The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Johnny Depp in June 2018
After that, details kept emerging in the press about his spending habits, after he sued his former business managers Joel and Robert Mandel of The Management Group in January 2017 for mis-managing his money. They countersued, claiming his losses were down to his own profligacy, with lavish expenditures such as blowing $30,000 every month on wine alone.
More: ‘Fantastic Beasts’ fans object to Johnny Depp’s casting amid domestic abuse allegations
“My son had to hear about how his old man lost all his money from kids at school, that's not right,” Depp said about the experience and the effect it had on his kids (Lily-Rose, 19, and Jack, 16).
Eventually, he made the decision to focus on writing a new memoir and clear his head – although it involved coming dangerously close to alcoholism.
“I poured myself a vodka in the morning and started writing until the tears filled my eyes and I couldn’t see the pages anymore,” he revealed. “I kept trying to figure out what I’d done to deserve this. I tried being kind to everyone, helping everyone, being truthful to everyone… The truth is most important to me. And all this still happened.”
What do you do when you feel like your garden ornaments are in grave danger?...
The latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's 83-year-old classic whodunit, this lavish, star-studded film is old-style...
It's the 1930s and a group of strangers from different walks of life board a...
Subtitled Salazar's Revenge in the UK, this fifth film in the long-running series never quite...
It seems Captain Jack Sparrow has been sailing the seas as a pirate for many,...
Forget Davy Jones' Locker and the Fountain of Youth, Captain Jack Sparrow is on an...
It's been five years since the last Harry Potter movie, and J.K. Rowling has been...
Jack Sparrow finds himself in constant trouble with the law; not only is his name...
This much more light-hearted sequel reinvigorates the franchise after Disney's quirky but murky 2010 reboot...
As Alice is once again taken into the magical and mysterious world that she's somehow...
For a biopic of a real-life person, this feels like an oddly standard mob thriller....
Alice once again returns to Wonderland and meets a lot of familiar faces. This time...
Edward Scissorhands is no ordinary boy, as his name may tell. Created by a genius...