‘Rolling Stone’ Have Painted A Disturbing Portrait Of Johnny Depp In A New Profile
At one point, Depp suggests that drugs could have helped capture Osama Bin Laden.
Rolling Stone has just published an extensive profile of Johnny Depp, which paints a seriously disturbing picture of the disgraced actor.
The 10,000 word piece mostly revolves around Depp’s ongoing lawsuit against his former business manager, but it also reveals the depths of Depp’s own chronic spending habit. At one point, the actor was forking out $2 million a month on whatever he could, from rental properties to wine to a couch formerly owned by the Kardashians.
We learn that over the years Depp has splashed around about $75 million on various properties, $1.8 million on round-the-clock security, another $1.2 mill to have a doctor on call, $3 mill to shoot Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon (he apparently wanted the arc to be at least one foot higher than the Statue of Liberty, which is why it was so expensive), and at least $30,000 on wine (“It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine,” Depp says about that. “Because it was far more.”)
Over the years he also purchased 70 guitars, some 200 pieces of art (including some Warhols), owned 45 luxury cars, and spent more than $200,000 a month on private flights.
Away from the ludicrous spending habit — which has sent Depp utterly broke, go figure — the profile also detailed Depp’s “evangelical” views about drugs. At one point Depp earnestly argues that using drugs could have sped up the capture of Osama Bin Laden.
”You get a bunch of fucking planes, big fucking planes that spray shit, and you drop LSD 25,” he explains. “You saturate the fucking place. Every single thing will walk out of their cave smiling, happy.”
Due to Depp having signed a non-disclosure agreement (and his minder warning Rodrick against asking), only a few paragraphs in the piece are discuss the allegations of domestic abuse that were levelled at him by ex-wife Amber Heard in 2016.
Depp does allude to it at one moment, saying that during the period of his divorce he 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 there with your eyes closed’,” he told Rodrick. “I couldn’t take the pain every day.”
The entire profile paints Johnny Depp as an ageing and slightly creepy old man desperately clinging onto his former fame. It’s a disturbing read, but a necessary one: dive it into in full here.