Johnny Depp vows 'never to stop fighting' Amber Heard abuse allegations as he addresses claims in candid interview

The Hollywood star says he turned from "Cinderella to Quasimodo"
Interview: Johnny Depp has spoken about Amber Heard's claims in a candid chat with British GQ
Greg Williams
Natasha Sporn3 October 2018
The Weekender

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Johnny Depp has opened up about Amber Heard’s domestic abuse claims in a candid interview, vowing to “never stop fighting” them.

The Hollywood superstar, whose divorce from Heard was finalised last year, spoke to British GQ for their November issue about the allegations that he was violent towards Heard in 2016.

Depp said: “To harm someone you love? As a kind of bully? No, it didn’t, it couldn’t even sound like me. So, initially, I just kept my mouth shut, you know? I knew it was going to stick on me and it would get weirder.

“But of course I care what my family and my kids think […]. And worse than that, to take away future earnings that are for my kids, you know? I do this s*** for my kids, man.

“How could someone, anyone, come out with something like that against someone, when there’s no truth to it whatsoever?

“I’m sure it wasn’t easy for my 14-year-old boy to go to school, you know what I mean? With people going, ‘Hey, look at this magazine, man. What, your dad beats up chicks or something?’

“Why did he have to go through that? Why did my daughter have to go through that?”

Divorced: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp
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The 55-year-old continued: “I will never stop fighting. I’ll never stop. They’d have to f****** shoot me. An episode like this takes time to get over. It’s a mourning for someone you thought was…”

Depp concluded the interview by declaring that he “wants the truth”, calling it his “biggest obsession in the world”.

Greg Williams / British GQ

Depp also called Hollywood a “vile f****** circus” and admitted that he knew he was never going to be “Cinderella” in the industry but revealed the accusations against him “turned him into Quasimodo”.

He added: “The only thing that I could do was know what I still know. Ultimately, the truth will come out in all of this and I will be standing on the right side of the roaring rapids.

“I hope other people will be too. I know the truth and if I had to walk away from all of it today, the job, the career, all of it, and go toodle-oo, then fine.”

See the full feature in the November issue of British GQ, available on digital download on Wednesday 3rd October and on newsstands Thursday 4th October. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/.