Honestly, I’m starting to feel a little bit sorry for Johnny Depp. The tabloids are refusing to let up on his relationship with Amber Heard. Mind you, I don’t feel sorry enough for Johnny to not discuss these stories, but I do feel sad when I remember the virile Johnny who never let anything get him down. Johnny rode so high for so long with his career and last relationship. While no one really knows what happened to crush his long-term love, we know what happened to his career, which was a series of rapid-fire roles in bad movies.
As for Johnny’s personal life, the stories aren’t letting up. A few weeks ago, we covered the delicious tale of how his 27-year-old girlfriend, Amber Heard, was growing bored with Johnny because all he wanted to do was hang out at home, when she wanted him to help her become the next Angelina Jolie. I’m not sure whether that was true, but Amber has admitted that she’d love to be a big, bad action star. Well this week’s issue of Star says that Johnny is feeling so insecure both career-wise and romantically that he is “smothering” Amber. Is it true?
Johnny Depp may soon be a real-life Lone Ranger! Since the film’s recent failure at the box office, the legendary actor, 50 — who is the father of Lily-Rose, 14, and Jack, 11, with ex-partner Vanessa Paradis — has been in a major slump, and his neediness is is pushing his girlfirned, 27-year-old Amber Heard, away. “He’s in a terrible state over the whole thing,” reveals a pal. “he’s been relying on Amber to maintain his fragile ego, but she isn’t sure how much more she can take. She’s been locked away in his apartment, looking after his kids, but his smothering behavior is driving her crazy.”
[From Star, print edition, September 9, 2013]
I tend to think that Johnny, who steps out these days only for work and special events like the recent Johnny Ramone tribute, is largely a recluse. Dude even owns his own island, you know? And Amber thinks of herself as an artist who needs to be constantly stimulated by knowledge. She probably does feel stifled if she spends most of her time hiding out with Johnny and his kids at home. I do think that, as sad as it sounds, the clock is winding down on this relationship.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN
It makes me sad too. I was watching Sleepy Hollow this past weekend and he was so damned HOT in that movie…and then I remembered how he is now, with the 43 scarves and etc and it made me sigh.
I miss the cool, IDGAF Johnny Depp.
I was counting the things I’d like him to lose from the 1st picture:
-at least 2 buttons from the waistcoat
-the pocket kerchief
-all 4 rings
-the nailpolish
-the necklace
-at least 1 pocket
Ugh,and he has the exact outfit on in the next picture and thinks “let me add a feather to my lapel”!
Ha ha! Even when he’s ‘conservative’ he’s still overdone. Oh Johnny, what the hell happened.
I was just watching Dead Man last night. I just want to shake him and yell “Whaaaat happeneeeed!!”
Of course he’s smothering her. That’s what he does. Finds a girl, falls madly in love, becomes practically obsessed then loses interest. His relationship with Vanessa only lasted so long because they had kids.
Truth, Jessica!
Johnny is super intense in his relationships. And then he goes flat. Vanessa had his kids which is why he stuck it out, he has said as much in interviews ladies.
That sounds very immature and superficial for a man in his 50s. Sad indeed that he hasnt developed emotionally since he was young.
How do you know he’s the one to go flat? When Winona broke up with him, he’s said to have had a very difficult time to overcome that. He was miserable at the end with both Kate and Vanessa as well. How can that be if easily loses interest as you say? He’s very mature man who knows how to move on completely without feeling any negativity.
Love, love, love that outfit in the top picture, and I usually hate white.
I’m sad for the kids if this is true, getting used to dad’s new girlfriend and then she’s off.
I know a few people who won’t mind being smothered by him;)
Yes, please. I’d stand in line for a good smothering from Johnny.
Um, Johnny my love, you can come here and smother me all day and night.. and I don’t mind helping you boost your ego honey..whatever you want …
Winona forever!!!
As long as I live I will never understand how the thieving drugging Winona has a fanbase. Is it nostalgia or something.
Max, did you ever see her performance in Heathers?
Here’s an idea – if you aren’t happy with your relationship – break it off. But maybe she really is hoping that her star will rise because of Johnny’s name recognition. I know I didn’t know who she was until she started dating him. I can’t put my finger on why but I just don’t like her – AT ALL. People need to stop trying to be the next Angelina and be themselves. the end.
Basically Amber is sleeping her way to the top. They’re not going to break up until Amber bags another steak daddy to “help” her career.
Just like Vanessa did.
What do you mean Binturong? Vanessa was a superstar in France and many parts of Europe since her teens. Don’t think her relationship with Depp really did her many favours.
@ aquarius64
Her next sugar daddy is Harvey Weistein, so she can won an oscar and become a movie star… It worked so well for Blake Lively and Jessica Alba, ha XD
@ Applapoom–Vanessa was constantly with older, more well-known men, seemed to keep her career going that way. And being with Depp certainly got her way more media coverage, both in France,the US, and other countries, than she would have gotten otherwise. I don’t think she’s been without a famous man, either French or American, for more than 5 minutes of her life.
yup, THAT’S exactly it…I mean Im sure she has feelings for him, C’MON he’s Johnny Depp !! but Im sure her first and foremost concern is her career, she’s soo young !! and she is Bisexual.. what are his chances ???
I don’t think this was ever a “relationship”. I think it was just one long mutual booty call that was easier made public than kept secret.
She should stop calling the tabloids.
She is insufferable. She needs a media coach – she comes across as a self-important twit in every interview.
Amber, honey… I know you were being touted as The Next Big Thing a few years ago. I can think of a number of young actresses who are better at their craft than you are. They’ve got a better attitude than you, too. I’m sure they’d LOVE a chance to be in a relationship with Johnny, just because he’s a delicious, self-confident hottie, NOT because of what he could do for their career.
Why is this totally forgettable chick acting like she’s doing him a favor by associating with him?
If he’s looking for a middle aged-crisis side piece, he could do much better.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She’s ride this aging pony for all it is worth and, when finished, she will get right on the “I’m bisexuaaaaaal” pony and flog that one.
Try-hard. Boring. Clichéd.
What else to say?
I used to be an Amber fan until she tried to use her sexuality as a way to get her name out in blogs and tabloids. The whole “I’m a proud lesbi-uh-… Bisexu-um-… I’ve only been with one woman!” Changing story pissed me off. It just seemed like she was playing a card for attention.
I really hate when people do this. Bisexuals have it hard enough making people their sexuality without these posers flip-flopping around. The least they could do us just say they’re bicurious which I think most people are.
except that she’s not bicurious! she had a 3 year relationship with a woman! if you’re going to talk about people stigmatizing bisexuality, maybe you should check yourself too.
Sarah Paulson has made the exact same comments about her sexuality now that she’s no longer with Cherry Jones, but people don’t attack her the same way. I get that everyone thinks Amber is a famewhore, which she may very well be. But that has nothing to do with her sexuality.
I don’t think she is a good enough actress to make it in movies. She just seems so very one dimensional to me. And yes I think it’s hard to see Johnny going through the md-life crisis. He’s fifty, he’s aged well and now he can sit back and enjoy his kids and the work he has done. I by no means think he is done with movies but I think the movie roles will start changing now, maturing if you will. I still love him and his movies and want to see him in more.
I know it’s never going to happen but……Wino forever!
he is having an epic cringeworthy midlife crisis ( and he used to be so cool sigh) and she is a childish wannabe. They both need to grow up.
He should hire someone full-time to find non-garbage roles for him.
She’s a very pretty girl who doesn’t have sufficient talent to make it in movies, even if Depp does pull strings for her. He sold out and seems lost. Together, an inevitable trainwreck for sure.
He looks so good in the pictures!
I wish to live in his “apartment” too…Johnny lives in a huge Hollywood Mansion, so it’s not like they are short of space
And his children are with their mother to spend the last part of their vacations, and even when they returned to LA soon. They still are sharing time with Vanessa, considering that she has a tour this year, and she will in Europe for 4 months.
So, even if they like Amber as it seems (by the message of his children to her on instagram, etc) they aren’t under her care.
If Amber is bored with Johnny, then she isn’t showing it. On the contrary, not only followed him to his promotional tour or when he was working in New Mexico in “Transcendence” this year. But also now she choose to shoot a low budget movie in London, yeah! the same city at the same time Johnny will be working in London in “Into the woods” , instead the movie she had to shoot in Germany…why? it seems obvious that she wants to be near Johnny!
Leave them alone!
She chose? I doubt that, try Johnny getting her a role and your probably closer to the truth.
Of course, she chooses! she had another movie to shoot in another place in the fall (Autobahn, with Zac Efron in Germany). Of course she choose to put that other movie in a second place (or definitely, to pull out of that movie) to work in the same city than Johnny
It’s all just more PR to keep her profile up, it worked for Johnny Depp for years when he was a barely successful film actor before POTC now he or his people are trying the same thing with his girlfriend. It’s not working, they are flogging a dead horse with this girl to the point of doing her more harm than good, comments about her are mainly negative, you would think that somebody, somewhere would have caught on by now.
Not buying this story. I just read a comment from a photographer who did a photoshoot with Amber yesterday and she said that Amber talked about Johnny all day
oh, the love!
Yeah, I kind of got that feeling reading about how he constantly interrupted her phone interview. Pay attention to ME!
Doubt this is true. The source is the Star and the other one was from National Enquirer. I think both stories are made up,though I’m not fan of this couple ( still a fan of Johnny though).
Those roots are terrible.
Not sure about feeling sorry for Johnny’s career. Regardless of the quality of the movies, most of them have been making money and he’s still on the top of the A-List. Especially considering how even some really pointless movies (ahem, Dark Shadows) of his recently have made 200+ million plus, it is clear that he’s got a devoted fanbase all over the world. Even TLR made so much back. And his entire career has been constant hit or miss mode. As one Box-office analyst put it he’s a rare talent who can withstand more chinks in his armour than most. Depp’s star is anything but fading ‘cos he’s one of a kind.
As for Amber Heard, first of all gorgeous girl. This relationship isn’t going to last long obviously ‘cos she’s young and hungry. Johnny’s used to be a tabloid favourite and it took few years with Vanessa for all that to calm down. Now it’s all happening again. As always he’s following his best ‘don’t explain’ policy and let things pan out as they do.
Yes everything worked for Johnny because he was a real star with a respected career, his own niche as an actor and a striking personality – one of a kind. The tabloids were always obsessed with him (like Brangelina, Robsten etc), especially with Winona and Kate- and his wild-child behaviour and the media with his dark iconoclastic image. He had already become more enigmatic eversince he had a kid way before POTC happened ‘cos his stardom was not about PR and unlike Amber he indeed never marketed himself as a celebrity. Infact it was after the superstardom that he has been flouting the PR friendly image.
Things doesn’t work for Amber Heard because,as beautiful as she is,she’s little more than a Jolie-wannabe trying to ape the same antics…yapping about bisexuality,being bold and weapons, the whole wild, sexy image and now – wanting to become an action star which made Jolie into what she is- all without the same talent or charisma. Hence the negativity.
It’s not just that. This girl is a blatant, lame liar who seems to believe that eveyone will believe whatever crap she spouts. Anything to build herself an image and brand. Like the way she described Austin as “nowhere” and claiming to have travelled to L.A without a dime despite having relatively rich parents, premium schooling and having once boasted years ago of having about “16000 pair of shoes”. And the way she’s so inconsistent about herself, trying to copy every aspect of Jolie’s persona at the same time to the point of being such an obvious wannabe joke and imitating Depp only to come across as obnoxious and dumb.
What sort of P.R is this? I don’t think Depp even cares beyond getting interviews for her just to keep her happy, actually the media would shower attention on her anyway because of the connection. I’m not sure his P.R can possibly coach such idiocracy.Nobody is ‘smothering’ her, she’s so ridiculous that she’s sabotaging herself.
She’s the only reason that one has to feel sorry for Johnny Depp. Atleast for his sake I hope she collects her shit together. It’s not just the age difference that this relationship has to deal with.
They don’t want to talk about their relationship and these are the consequences. Any tabloid can talk and invent whatever they want about them, as any of them will come with a denial or explanation
It doesn’t matter what the tabloids, haters or fans said, if they want to be in the exact place that they are…and if they are in love (as i believe after two years together) who cares about the rest?
“sad as it sounds, the clock is winding down on this relationship”
I’m not sad. Sooner this is over, the better for Johnny. The no-talent, dull-as-a-rock Amber is “bored with HIM” and unhappy “he hasn’t made her the next Jolie yet” & “isn’t introducing her to the movers and shakers”??!!! How else did she get the roles in Depp’s buddy Robert Rodriguez’ film Machete, Paranoia, 3 Days to a Kill & her new English indie film? He introduced her to his famous friends like Bruce Willis, John Waters, Keith Richards & more. He should have dumped her long ago.
Amber’s rep since HS is that of ruthless, overly ambitious social climber. Maybe she will soon slither back under her rock. She doesn’t have the acting skills to make it on her own or even with A-list help, apparently. And what kind of woman would be part of destroying a family (even a family that was having its problems) to aid her career?
She’s despicable.
I think that she is with Johnny because she likes him (don’t know if she’s “in love” with him), and probably because yes, it (hopefully) will help her career–at the very least she’s getting press—-too bad she doesn’t have talent to warrant that, but…
I don’t think it’s fair to say she ruined his relationship with Vanessa. From what I hear, they were having problems already and were spending a lot of time apart. I think it was lisa2 who pointed out when Johnny and Angelina were filming ‘The Tourist’, the media/tabloids were pointing out that Johnny was not as much as a fameho as (apparently) Angelina and Brad were, because there were no pictures of his family in Venice (or Florence, can’t remember which city). But it turned out they weren’t there.
So I think they had issues. Plus, even if Johnny and Amber *were* fooling around before he and Vanessa officially separated, then they did a good job of hiding it–from her girlfriend for one. Plus they weren’t seen together on their first date for a year after Johnny and Vanessa split up.
So yes, call her a no talent, golddigging, fameho—but not a “homewrecker”…..we have absolutely no proof or conjecture that they were together romantically at all.
Really, how can a relationship with that age difference last? She’s still young and ready to go out every night. He’s 50 … you need a few nights to recover from a night out. I’m sure the “thrill” of being JD’s girlfriend is wearing out and the movie offers aren’t pouring in …. yeah, clock is ticking.
Johnny’s family were with him. The kids had to leave after some time because of school. They’ve been schooling in L.A for quite sometime which was said to be Vanessa’s decision, hence their decision to move to L.A from France. There are loads of pics of the family saying affectionate goodbyes (Van was even wearing Johnny’s jacket), ‘cos Johnny couldn’t avoid getting papped at the boats.
With Brangelina they may or maynot be famhoing at a particular time but it’s ridiculous to say they don’t ‘cos other than Brangelina fans everyone knows that’s how they build their brand. In Venice though it was just difficult for both Depps & Jolie-Pitts to hide although Johnny goes to extreme lengths to do so usually and is like pathologically averse to such exposure, in Venice he couldn’t do much. He was even talking about it during the promotional tour. I remember paps complaining that how he’d walk around like Michael Jackson just to avoid the photogs.
Anyway lisa2 wasn’t quite right and the family was with him but yes there were rumours of discomfort.It was well-spread knowledge in Depp circles that they had been drifting apart for quite sometime.
Actually there are photos of Amber with Johnny even before that RS concert which was just Johnny’s deliberate attempt to make them public. Infact they were reponsible for all the rumours ‘cos even Johnny couldn’t avoid being hounded especially post the split news. However even the earliest photos were only after the split was announced. So no I don’t think he was trying to hide any shame secret from Vanessa but just,as always,kept things from the public. He did the same thing with Vanessa, waiting for media to cool down before talking about their relationship. So yeah it seems like that relationship fizzled out for whatever reasons and Amber was just got lucky as his rebound by being around at the right time.
What intimate photos are there of Johnny and Amber?
The only thing I remember about them before they were dating, is that after they did the movie, there were a few rumors about Johnny being in love with Amber—she had a girlfriend—and she didn’t deny them (we speculated) because it brought her press, rather than just shutting it down.
And then I also remember a story that Johnny bought her a horse for his ranch (?) somewhere….I think that one was true. Were those from where the pics were? Because until they went to that RS concert–there hadn’t been one single candid pic of those two together, that I had seen.
I just hate that Johnny has become such a cliche, a 50 year old having a mid-crisis, dating younger, thought so much more of him, so it’s disapointing as I am a fan, loved his older movies. But lately the sold-out role choices and the over accessorizing and splitt and this cliche hook-up, makes me cringe.
I don’t think johnny would ever date someone close to his age now that he’s 50. i expect he’ll continue to date women younger than he is, which means even more mid life crises when they want to split because he’s too old for them. he doesn’t like women his age.
His wife Lori-Anne Allison was 5 years OLDER than him and he was rumoured to have had a fling with Fay Dunaway.
i dont think its so bad for them to be together . i dont think its going to help her career at all for some reason . women are not forgiving to other women for dating such older men and in most cases ie . catherine zeta jones for one , katie and tom , it just kills the desirability of the female .
Oh really? Johnny has it all. He’s unusual but he does have it all. So his last movie (and some others) failed? Lots of movies fail. He’ll get over it. He need to commit to Amber – that’s why she’s upset. He wants her badly enough but he can’t commit. Hell, he doesn’t even mind her having a relationship with other women as long as he’s the main squeeze in her life. I like the new garb and scarves. She’s a young filly…so my guess is she’ll run off again just like she did the last time until he got her back with all the poetry and roses. This is on the same track and Angelina and Brad. They’re still together, but they both have 6 kids so I expect things to stay that way with them for a while.
I’m not just saying this as a fan of both of them, but I think it would have to take something BIG for them to split.
Because unlike a lot of their counterparts in Hollywood, they are always together. If one of them is filming, then the other travels with them with the kids. The only time that we ever really see them apart for more than a few days is when Angelina goes on her trips–and I think even then Brad brings the kids as close as he can.
So I think it’s going to take something big, for them to break up. I’m not saying it’s not possible–they’re human. But it won’t be the typical Hollywood “we grew apart” i.e. we were both always too busy filming on opposite ends of the continent to see each other and maintain a stable relationship. Like Katy Perry and Russell Brand–besides her drinking/partying w/a husband who was a former drug user.