Johnny Depp Says His Kids Know All About His ‘Horrid’ Amber Heard Case—Here’s Where They Stand
20.04.2022 - 02:37
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Throughout the years, Johnny Depp’s kids have always been at the top of his mind—whether he was busy acting as the swashbuckling Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean or caught up in headlines following his divorce from Aquaman star, Amber Heard.
The Golden Globe-winning actor, who is also known for his roles in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, Edward Scissorhands and the 2005 remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, shares two children with his ex-girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, whom he dated from 1998 to 2012. Depp has spoken fondly about his kids many times in the past. In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, the actor revealed, “With my kids, they’re told 75 times a day that they’re loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.”
Depp has also expressed his desire to make his kids proud: “I’m just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that’s what I want,” he told the Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2009, adding at the time, “I don’t want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I’ve done.” But over a decade later, the actor inevitably found himself in this exact situation when actress Amber Heard accused him of physical and verbal abuse during their marriage.
Heard, who married Depp in 2015 after several years of dating, filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order against the actor in 2016. The divorce was finalized in 2017 after the former couple reached an out-of-court settlement, of which Heard received $7 million and donated to charity. The following year, however, Heard penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, where she wrote about her experience as