Was I naïve to think that Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis’s separation would be civil and not controversial in the least? Because that’s what I thought. Yes, Johnny Depp seems to be in the midst of a full-blown mid-life crisis, and yes, there was a lot of money involved and all of that, but I thought that at the end of the day, the split would be handled with some dignity and class. Not so much, as it turns out. Johnny and Vanessa are getting the full Brangelina treatment in the tabloid press, to the point where I really have to wonder if there isn’t a Team Depp camp and a Team Paradis camp leaking damaging information like crazy. First move: make Johnny sympathetic because he was slowly going out of his mind with bordeom because of Vanessa.
Johnny Depp’s breakup with his long term partner Vanessa Paradis was brewing for a long time, and RadarOnline.com has exclusive details about the real reason why they split.
“Johnny didn’t want to be with Vanessa anymore. They had grown so far apart, and he wanted to be free and try new things,” a source close to the former couple tells RadarOnline.com. “He was bored senseless with her, being with Vanessa was making him miserable. The spark had gone, and there was nothing left. Johnny just wants more from life and believes Vanessa deserves to be happier too. He’s not embroiled in some hot and heavy new romance and he has no plans to jump straight into something straight away, but he is keen to have some fun again.”
“Johnny was not handling keeping their split secret too well, it was difficult for him to carry on a farce, so now that it is out in the public he is feeling a lot happier about the situation.”
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, has been planning the split for a while.
“Johnny has wanted this relationship to end since last year,” the source says. “He has tried to get out of this for a long time.”
However, one thing is for sure — even though Johnny no longer wants to be romantically involved with Vanessa, he is determined to continue to be a hands-on dad when it comes to their two children, Lilly Rose and Jack.
“Make no mistake, Johnny is not walking away from his kids, at all,” the source says. “He loves his children, more than life itself, and he is determined to remain a constant everyday presence in their lives.”
But! The British tabloids claim that things between Johnny and Amber Heard have been “heating up,” and that Amber was ultimately “the other woman”. One UK outlet even claims that Johnny “bought Amber a horse so they can ride together.” ??? Lainey continues to say that Amber and Johnny are not boning because Amber is a full-on lesbian… although Amber herself doesn’t self-identify as a lesbian (or as bisexual, or as straight). I tend to think Amber probably is bisexual, in that she’s had sexual and romantic relationship with men and women, and will continue to do so. Basically, I’m not buying the “Amber is a lesbian, that’s why she’s not boning Johnny Depp” defense. They were in Las Vegas together several weeks ago, and she was photographed boarding his private plane. Sure, they could just be friends. But what if?
As for the money question, which we discussed yesterday – I still don’t know if Vanessa walked away with a settlement, if there is some nondisclosure contract, etc. Johnny is allegedly worth $300 million, although I think that figure is low-balling. According to The Sun and The Mail, “sources” claim that Johnny basically handed Vanessa half of his fortune (a reported $150 million) to “keep the split as amicable as possible for the sake of their children.” Yeah… I don’t believe that. Sure, I’ll buy that Vanessa walked away with a really nice settlement, but I don’t think she got half of his fortune.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Oh, Johnny.
Why do men always use that excuse for ending a marriage?
“Boring”, “nothing left”, “spark gone”, “repetitive”, “passion-less”… seems like the reviews to the latest local theatrical production of Evita! I believe a marriage/relationship deserves better.
“bored senseless”. WOW. I take this tabloid sh*t with a grain of salt but if that’s true-way to throw salt in the wound (do I get extra points for use of 2 salt idioms? 🙂 ).
Being with her was “miserable”? Is that supposed to make us feel bad for him (“poor Jonny suffered for years in a miserable relationship”) ??? Regardless of what happened (or didn’t happen) that lead to the split, I think it’s incredibly disrespectful after 14 years and 2 kids to say that about someone you once purported to love. Again, this might just be PR spin but it’s still sh*tty.
Why Kitten you are so “salty” this morning and deserving of extra points 🙂
My letter to old Johnny boy…..
Dear Deppsh*t,
I too am 49 and am in mid-life crisis mode. Yes there are days where life seems less then fun these days. I grew up, went to college, got a career, husband, kids, and a minivan…blah blah blah. Now that I am nearing the big 50 I feel more often then not “am I or did I miss something?” Now I am a passionate and expressive person myself, and quite honestly a bitch, but I am not going to do anything as drastic as change my life, and the lives of those I do love, because my life is at the (hopefully) mid life point. What I have done is taken my angst at aging and have made it fun…FOR ME. I won’t bore you with the details, but they are far less destroying then yours because, well I am clearly not as selfish as you are, and always in the back of my mind my Grammy’s “the grass isn’t always greener….” seeps into my conscious (yes I have what you lack). Anyway, enough about ME and back to you. It is apparent you can’t keep your pecker in your pants, but could you at least have the decency to keep you mouth shut against your partner/love and the mother of your children please. I would think by your age you could at least grasp that notion.
Yours in midlife crisis,
Chat
Hey OK, yep in Boston looking over Fenway park. Man, it’s sweaty out there!
If this is true, it all spells out:
M-I-D-L-I-F-E C-R-I-S-I-S, which is a huge copout, if you ask me. Committed relationships and raising kids preclude being excited to the max all the time like a damn teenager.
He just wants his jollies and since he’s a filthy rich mega movie star, why should he be like a normal adult; why not indulge himself to the fullest. /sarcasm/
I just turned 50. I never married, never had kids and I feel fine about that. The whining of my married (and now divorced) friends about “what if?” is a bit much. You had your chance, you made your choices. Shut up or get relevant. Maybe Johnny was “bored” because he was a “boring”, shallow person anyway? No one forced him to have kids and live in France. He could have kept getting engaged but never married and kept trashing hotels rooms. Don’t trash the mother of your kids because you became middle-aged and boring. Its not her fault – its yours. (rant over now, thanks for listening)
LOL, Chat! Permission to use “Deppshit” in the future? 😀
Your letter is PERFECT. And that’s the thing-don’t we all go through transitional stages in our lives where we feel unsettled, wanting more, and feeling a bit “in limbo”? Granted, the mid-way point through life is probably the biggest transitonal period one can go through but still-is the answer really to just abandon ship?
GG & Elizabeth-ITA
@Tiff-I feel SO awful for you being here this week during this nasty heatwave 🙁
They said it’s going to feel like 105 today. How long are you here for? It’s supposed to improve this weekend.
PS Have you visited Charlestown yet? 🙂
@Kitten…permission granted. As for sinking ships, I am not going to martyr myself enough to go down with the ship, but damn I am going to bail and bail and bail until my arms feel like they’re going to fall off before I climb aboard a life boat (or whatever he is) …hehehe
@Tiff…it is hot all up and down the east coast this week. I baked like a potato at the ball game last night. I’m still trying to rehydrate!
@Elizabeth…very eloquently stated! You go girl.
@GG…loving the teenager analogy 🙂
Depp is quite simply an over indulged man child. That’s all I got.
Anyone feel like swapping your heat waves for London weather? It’s been pouring today where I am -_-
Ah Amelia luv, it is so stinkin humid here in Philly it might as well be rain!
cosign w/ “Elizabeth” all the way!!
I doubt he was bored senseless by her, probably more by a life of responsibility to a partner and a family. Well, too f***ing bad. You’ll have one exciting short term thing after another now until you have nothing left. And how exciting will that be? Grow the f*** up.
Like all other men, he hit middleage and wanted to be young and desirable with the young girls again. Makes you wonder what Paul Newman and Joanna Woodward had to stay together for 50 years. Did they still have the “spark”. No, by damn, they had love and respect for one another and a commitment to their vows.
Weather is great out here in LA. A little gray in the mornings but it’s sunny and 70s in the afternoons.
I hope he is not here.
PS: Vanessa may be a lot of things but boring does not seem to be one of them. JD on the other hand…. kinda boring.
We are here until August 6, when we go for more crappy weather in DC! Yay!
We have not been there yet. We kayaked the Charles river a couple days ago. My kids end school with Cirque in a few weeks, so we will be exploring a lot.
Some side trips to the cape and a lake, then we are taking the train to NYC to see Zarkana before we leave Boston.
Zenbitch, really? You are like my friends on FB who send me all the beach cams from home. Damn you alllllll!!!!!!!
Radar says he might be getting really “familiar” with his publicist, Robin, which would explain that nasty little PR jab, i.e., him being “bored senseless” with Vanessa.
@Chatcat: But on the other hand you don’t have the world at your feet like Johnny does, so you don’t have anywhere near the same amount of temptation he does to leave. Why settle for the tedium of stale realationship when you can go out there and have nearly anyone you want? As for destroying the lives of his wife and kids, gimme a break. They’re filthy rich and she’s still pretty hot. They’ll never want for anything.
I also noticed that Johnny and Russell Brand look a lot like each other these days. Perhaps someone should cast them in as movie as brothers.
Hey Kitten, I totally agree. Totally disrespectful to your partner of 14 years. Imagine being married to an accountant or a doctor or someone “mainstream”. What more does this turd want? Bored?
Please, for one moment, imagine you are a man and you are married to a woman who can get up on stage in fron of thousands and sing like this live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP6eLBqqHwM
Boring? A woman who is at ease like this? Please, go walk a PLANK Depp.
I do not understand how this whole mid life crisis thing works for people, especially people like Johnny Depp who had his wild days in the 90s. Marriage requires work. Its a living, breathing thing you need to continuously pump life into in order for it to work. My brother was sent to Japan alone for a year for work and when he came back he up and decided he no longer loved his wife and wanted a divorce. He went from a normal husband/father to completely rude/selfish so she took their kids to her parents in the south& now my brother hasn’t seen his kids for almost a year. He’s not even legally divorced yet but is already talking about getting out of the military and moving to Germany to live with a woman who was working in Japan with him. I feel terrible for my nieces and hope I can still have access to them but my brother could care less. I have no respect for people who disrespect the families they create in order to chase some juvenile idea of happiness in greener pastures.
Very well put, Marcy. I never understand it when people say (in reference to their relationship/marriage): “It shouldn’t be this hard” or “things should be easy”.
The simple fact that marriage involves two complex beings trying to find a way to co-habitate and love each other for (presumably) the rest of their waking lives lends me to believe (not married myself) that it is a HUGE amount of work. That’s why people need to understand what they’re in for when they sign on. Now I know these two didn’t have a formal wedding, but after 14 years isn’t that pretty much common law marriage? Did he think it would be a walk in the park?
His level of attractiveness went way, wayyyyyyyy down with that comment.
Nothing new to see here, just your standard midlife crisis b@llshit that he hasn’t been able to sort out on his own and so projects everywhere else.
Badly done, Johnny. Badly done.
Perhaps because sometimes that’s exactly what happened? Not saying it’s that here, but sometimes people – both men and women – do in fact stay in marriages despite being bored to death etc, for the sake of their children. But then a spark happens and voila!
Don’t be so quick to judge.
Marriage becomes boring for a lot of people because they have too high expectations – everything has to be full on, lots of sex and everything exciting. I can’t imagine being a Hwood star with action, movie shoots, mega money, fun & high voltage stuff happening, everyone telling you you’re awesome every second of the day…and then coming home to a normal existence. Having to go to the supermarket for bread and milk? How dull. Taking the kids to school. Even duller. Unless you’re dressing up as Jack Sparrow! Boo to the publicist who thought putting out “bored senseless” PR would be a good idea.
She is such a beautiful woman, they led an international life-style and she had an interesting creative career, and he found life with her “boring”?
Is he kidding me?
What would he say if he married just a regular accountant/ lawyer/ teacher?
who lived in one place, had a normal life and looked not as stunningly beautiful as his partner?
This guy is a lost cause. Nothing will satisfy him.
Totally agreed. Nothing will fill this guy up. If he’s bored it’s cause he’s overlooking…
Has JD actually said in an interview that he is bored, or is it a tabloid that put words in his mouth. It’s possible that Vanessa is bored senseless too.
Please keep in mind that none of this is what Johnny said. It was one of those famous “insiders.” Sad that anything can be printed and everyone assumes it is true.
I’m not sure if I buy into this. We all know that the press enjoy making up stories to sell magazines but you always have to question if they really know anything. I really hope that they keep this classy and civil for the sake of the children.
Damn… So there’s gonna be annother even crapper Pirates film to pay for the settlement he gave Vanessa I’m guessing, Keira and Orlando got out of that mess just in time.
Yes, it seems that the female mouthpiece is in fact waging a full-on girlshit publicity war in the tabloids. Smutty twit. All this because of a man.
Yes, how boring it is to raise one’s children, and to be a constant presence in their lives.
No, it wasn’t enough to make them tons of money.
I don’t buy Lainey’s bullshit on Amber either. Right during promotion of the Rum Diaries, Amber had started stating that she is not a full-on lesbian. Clearing the path much? Hate it when people are conveniently gay or straight for publicity’s sake (oh hey Anne Heche).
Unlike Anne Heche just being insane, I actually believe Amber is bisexual. She always has been looking happy in pictures with her girlfriend. I do agree its odd that suddenly she was like ‘oh wait, but i’m not a lez, I date men too’. Don’t understand why she didn’t say that when she came out with her girlfriend because now it just sounds weird and some sort of backpedalling. Like she doesn’t like the image of being a lesbian and felt she needed to clarify. In Hollywood being not clear means lying- means more rumors, beh
I buy that Amber is gay because when she first came out, she called herself gay. I believe she suddenly became bi-sexual because her agent/manager/etc. realized it was going to be more difficult to “sell” an openly lesbian actress instead of a bi-sexual actress. There were several incidents when she called herself gay, and then all of the sudden she started saying “I don’t agree with labels, blah blah blah.”
I believe she may be friends with Johnny, and I’m also pretty sure she’s still dating her girlfriend. Johnny’s a pseudo intellectual…Have you ever seen Stephen Colbert’s skit where he openly looks for an African-American friend because he wants to say he has an African-American bff? Johnny strikes me as the type to brag about how he’s besties with a hot, blonde lesbian. Judging by how he’s talked about France, etc, in the past, he wants to cultivate this image of him being this open, suave guy with friends of every race and color and sexuality. In reality, he’s a rich white guy who left France to dodge taxes.
A, I agree with you 101%. Amber Heard is definitely a lesbian, but as you said, her pr team etc knew that being completely open in Hollywood could quash any chance at real success. So they went the “sexy, cool, hip” bi-sexual route. It’s so lame and frustrating. If you’re gay, don’t say it and then back peddle. If people can’t accept you for who you are, then F them.
HA!
Agree. The separation makes him look bad. He’s leaving his family plus moving from France because of the taxes? Grow up.
Don’t forget Megan Fox. I remember her mentioning a Russian stripper that she was in love with or something. So I guess she ain’t gay anymore huh? lol
Although I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to Amber, I don’t think sexuality is that cut and dry in Hollywood: One’s sexuality is at times bent to suit more one’s career objectives, and yes, that may also mean sleeping with the opposite sex for Amber.
However, the likes of Megan Fox, Lindsay Lohan, and many more, use this as temporary attention-seeking ploy.
Because of course, it works more for women, but never for men!
Vanessa is not a boring person so I think he was bored with having a stable life. He had to constantly make movies to stay away. Johnny isn’t the kind of guy to get into gardening or some other healthy hobby.
What does she do exactly? What’s she like? She gets an odd treatment in the press. I don’t quite get the allure, but she’s written about like she’s some freaking mythical creature or something. There’s always this “awe” factor attributed to her, and I have no idea why. I get that she stunned people when she first came out with that music video ages and ages ago….maybe if I was Parisian I’d know a bit much more about her or “get” it.
She’s an icon in France. She’s had such staying power I can’t even think who her US equivalent would be. She’s worked with the best film directors and music producers. I’m not saying she’s the best actress or singer (she’s not), but she definately has had the life experience to fill several novels.
I think Johnny bought into her whole bohemian persona and got bored with the family life.
I disagree. I think she’s incredibly boring. And she always has that self-satisfied “Gisele” attitude
Paradis has always seemed shallow and not too bright to me. There are many in France who ridicule her. She is “France’s revenge for EuroDisney.” She & Lagerfeld did the Christmas window lighting last Fall for Printemps in Paris, the day after Depp’s Paris premiere of The Rum Diary. There was a huge crowd, who said they were there hoping to see DEPP, not Paradis! Maybe VP’s the reason the official split took 6 mos? I saw a web message from one of Depp’s close friends calling VP “the Royal F**k” and “Vanessa F**k Me Depp.” He told her wanted out last yr, and she’s obviously been dragging it out as long as possible, probably hoping he’d be caught with a gf in the meantime to make him look bad.
You have no idea what kind of guy Johnny is, but I know that he has NEVER bad mouthed any of his former girlfriends. He even stood up for Winona Ryder and Kate Moss when they were going though some rough times. Insider information…right.
This Radar story has Johnny’s Pr written all over it, he may have good reasons to put an end to their relationship, but that’s so unclassy to make it public , he could at least think about their kids. But I guess all is good for Johnny now, he’s free to get drunk and bed women all of his age.
Yeah, it does stink of Depp’s PR. Makes me wonder if the rumors about him boning his PR lady are true. That could explain the nasty tone here. No honorable man would put that out there about the mother of his children, and Johnny sure does not come off well. Hope he fires his PR piece (if that’s what she is).
That’s what I thought! It’s like his publicist is saying: Of course, he ended it, but with so much grace and generosity! He was bored, but it was not his fault! Blabla…
It’s really embarrassing that he runs to the media. Couldn’t be more obvious.
That woman would be so much prettier with an extra 5-10 lbs. And Depp’s style is just not doing it for me lately.
Hopefully this breakup will encourage image makeovers in both of them.
I was honestly just thinking the exact same thing, I wonder how she would look with an added 15 pounds to her frame.. I bet she would be stunning!!!
or 25. However, I was looking at the photos just now, thinking, I sure wish I was thin enough to be able to wear absolutely anything without wobbly bits showing.
Well if u read the people magazine article about the breakup Johnny is a womanizer with substance abuse issues
Lots of unwritten rumors about JD’s infidelity in France. I work with a gal who met someone who said she slept with him. And as this person was a model, she believed it.
Just my two cents,I think they had an open relationship for a while now, but Vanessa probably grew tired of it and asked him to be a commited partner and father but he wouldn’t have it, hence the break up.
Lots of celebs have open marriages. I once met British/Irish actress Sinead Cusack when she was drunk and she revealed that her marriage to actor Jeremy Irons is open. They both sleep around although I got the impression that she does it only because he steps out on her first. When so much money and fame is involved some people will sacrifice their self respect.
Oh that is juicy Deedo. I think “open marriges” are hard because jelousy will certainly be involved. Like you said, some women might go for it in an attempt to be “cool” (a la Demi Moore), but in the end they screw as revenge.
Call me old fashioned (which I’m not), but I think these arrangements seldomly work out.
@normades Exactly. I know quite a few artistic types who think it is cool and open-minded to have open relationships. The irony is that they are being just as conservative as the conservatives which they deplore, by adhering to strict rules about coolness.
She looks so pretty in the first and last picture.
I think they were just not together enough. Separate lives does not work. I reminded of a friend that was married to a man in the military. He was over seas for years coming home on leave. She was the head of the family. She and the kids had a routine. Then when he finally came home for good things were off. He could not fit into their routine. He wanted to be the head of the family. Understandably. But the got divorced.
She said they could go months apart. Which I always wondered did that mean Johnny was not seeing his kids. I assume they are with her most of the time. Johnny makes lots of movies. And those movies are not filmed in LA where they really leave. So I think they were just not together enough.
Right on. Separate lives don’t work in a marriage. My sister and her ex-husband lived separate lives working in different cities. It took a massive toll on their marriage and they got divorced in 2010. This happened despite them having dated for 3 years and being married for 5 years. Not that they couldn’t have worked it out but by the time my sister decided to close shop and return home, he had found someone else and he insisted on getting divorced.
If any of that is true, it’s totally bullshit. I mean, what long-term couple, especially with children, doesn’t find themselves feeling bored. I’m bored with my husband sometimes–it’s easy to get caught up in the drudgery of diaper changes and homework and bills. We don’t have as much crazy fun as we did when we first got together. But we’ve built and family and a life together and we love each other. I can’t imagine leaving him and my children because I was “keen to have some fun again”.
Exactly. Marriage can’t be “fun and exciting” all the time. I feel burned out at times from work/child/hubby but they are my life and love. Would not trade that in for anything.
Exactly! Speaking for myself, the fun is more rare these days and therefore more appreciated. But there are countless valuable moments wedged in between emptying the dishwasher and cleaning up the goldfish crackers from the floor of my car.
Johnny needs to show respect and shut up. He’s much hotter with his mouth closed.
Can’t add anything except to agree with the above.
Marriage is a job sometimes and you wave to work at it.
ITA with all of you here. You can not expect that a relationship will be all about fun. If Depp was bored senseless, well how about Vanessa???
Why not trying to do something TOGETHER to fix that instead of jumping out of the ship “saving himself”. He needs to learn the art of compromise in a relationship. Also, about this “bored senseless” thing, it’s not like he doesn’t have the money for taking a time off from his work and do something completely different or go somewhere new with his family. What a jerk!
I don’t know very much about Vanessa but she dose’t seem like the type of person to needs to be paid off the keep things good between them or to pull a JA and throw herself a media pity party. Ether way I hope I’m right for the kids sake, we and there kids don’t need another Halle Berry situations to go down.
Or just maybe this is a made-up secret source story in a rag mag? Nah, that could never be.
i agree. People are taking these as quotes! Also i dontknow how people know what his pr bull sounds like, as usually he does his own talking. Even if both say nothing to the press as i assume would be the case as they both have dirt no doubt, the rags will make stuff up, that is their job.
Johnny Depp paid to build the machine that catapulted Hunter F. Thompson’s ashes into the air at his funeral. I doubt he or anyone close to him had anything to do with this statement. It’s like a Playskool’s My First Radar PR attempt. Come on.
I just hope they don’t turn Vanessa in a woman who needs a lot of money and now is draining him. She’s an interesting artist herself and seemed to be devoted as a parent. I like her. A lot.
Agree. She doesn’t seem like the golddiggertype and they’ve always spoken highly of eachother. I just don’t buy it; Vanessa wanting all that money. I can imagine Johnny offering it to her because they have been together for so long and they have kids together, but not to keep her quiet. While she was together with him she could have ‘milked’ the relationship, gotten nice deals/roles/careeroptions because she is JD’s girl. She never did that. I also doubt she is gonna be in the media all the time now. I think they settle this nice and quietly.
The more I read about him the more he appears like a total jerk! This man is just a tool, has always been and now I think that the “family man” image he was selling for awhile was just that: an image to sell movies!
He should wake up: he is old, he now does crappy movies and her hearttrob days are way down the toilet.. for decades now!! and not everybody can pull out being Jack Nicholson!
As for Vanessa I hope she will move on a find happiness again with someone who will deserve the patient, caring and loving woman she seems to be.
Or she should go back to Lenny Kravitz, they were glorious together… and apparently he regrets her greatly…
http://coolspotters.com/musicians/lenny-kravitz/and/musicians/vanessa-paradis/media/135305#medium-135305
http://www.collection.easyrideronline.fr/2009/02/lenny-vanessa-dans-photo-n-300.html
http://www.collection.easyrideronline.fr/2009/02/lenny-vanessa-dans-photo-n-300.html
Hes believes his own hype, and it makes him a tool.
Hot damn, those are some sexy pictures! I would love them to hook up again.
Johnny is dead to me. First Polanski, now trashing the mother of his kids in the press. What a bastard.
Can you read? These are not Johnny’s quotes. They are anonymous quotes. People are reading this, and saying “oh god..how horrible to say these things. Once again, he did not say them. And there is no one closer to his kids than Johnny. If you saw his daughter and son at the MTV awards, you could see the love on their faces.
ya, the grass is greener at the “Kids Choice Awards”, blah-blah-blah.
Thanks for these pics. I had no idea she had a history with Lenny. What a sexy, cool couple they made. Now I’ll be crossing my fingers for a reconciliation for them!
Tbh, I believe Johnny is willing to give Vanessa half of his money, but not for the reason of keeping her quiet. He seems like a guy who doesn’t really care about money and he’s always spoken highly of Vanessa. And she is the mother of his kids. He once claimed she has saved his life, so him giving half his money in return doesn’t strike me as odd. More like she deserves it because they have been together for so long and she helped him with his issues and helped him raise kids together.
I’m sorry, but if Depp didn’t care about $, he would not be in bed with Disney. Ripped jeans and scarves can be expensive too.
Mr. anti-Hollywood sounds just like every other Hollywood celeb going through a nasty break-up.
Possibly, he wanted to take on a fun role, and make some movies his kids would like.
BTW, their relationship is prob. infinitely more complicated than simple speculation by the media and us, so it seems a waste of brain power to even think about it, let alone make judgments.
The Johnny who did interesting films over high-budget studio produced ones has been long dead. He’s the establishment now and $$$ means a lot. Whether or not he personally cares for $$$, he’s committed to high-budget studio movies and that’s a lot of $$$ riding on his back.
“he’s always spoken highly of Vanessa”
Yeah except for the part where he said she was boring him senseless and he was miserable with her (if this “source” is to be believed).
Anyone else think Depp (well, his people) leaked that early story to People to force Paradis’ hand and move the split into divorce territory?
Depp strikes me as a passive-aggressive cowardly type in a confrontation. I could see it.
They were never married right?
Oops–“final break up”, should have said.
Oh Johnny, mid-life crises are pathetic, even on you. Attempt to take the high road for the sake of your kids and the woman who you say saved you.
That article is supposed to be written to make Johnny look woe-begone in his marriage? It makes him sound like a total dick.
+1
I get ZERO tingles in my biscuits for this man now. I hope you’re happy, Johnny-you ruined a good thing. You and I are done.
**dumps drawer full of hipster glasses, torn fedoras, leather vests in street**
Don’t feel bad, Kitten! You’re better off without him!
You’re right Elizabeth. I see things clearly now 😉
I get that Vanessa wants the kids to live in LA to be closer to their father, but I think they should stay in France. They did such a good job keeping the kids out of the media when they were young. I fear that Lilly Rose will turn into a Hilton.
I could see that happening, re: Lily Rose. I saw some pictures of her recently and she didn’t look like a 13 year old to me.
This is about to get ugly. Johnny and his new girlfriend…I mean publicist are trying to clean up his image and paint him as the victim who needed to escape. That little bit about the kids at the end was a nice touch.
he needs to fire the publicist or PR folk then, cause his entire fan-base is female. how short-sighted can u be to go w/ such weak & tired spin. its got to be lies – all of it. goodness. is everyone in the industry a skank?-?
+1, if this article is a gossip invention, he has to deny it and uses his own words, on contrary, if it’s his PR team who puts this story they are the most stupid people in the world…
Was he bored senseless when she pushed out his two cute kiddies?
bored senseless when she didn’t blast their business to every paper that uses ink. He had to the good life if you ask me. Give Nessie 1/2, be a good dad if you can’t be a good “hubby/boyfriend”.
“If you’re bored, you’re boring.”
What a pathetic, trite excuse.
I do believe he would hand her “half” out of a sense of fairness and to avoid squabbling.
I feel badly for him. He seems to have addiction issues, and when he was living in France kept things together. It seems that shortly after they moved to LA he slid into his old ways. She’s collateral dmage but he’ll be the worst hit. I’m glad the kids have a stable parent in her.
+1
I think TMZ is reporting he gave her 156 million. Get your money, girl!
Oh yes, I’m sure TMZ has the “real” story. Lord, how gullible can people be.
TMZ coverage is a lot more fact based than most tabloids. French media is reporting here too that she will likely get 120+ million euro.
I think it is just weird that we never got stories about Johnny from “insiders” now all of a sudden these are coming out. And they started with that People story. Most people commented that the cover and story was very unusual and People didn’t usually do these kind of Celebrity stories without the involvement of the celebrity or their PR person.
Just think that was 5 month ago. And now we know that story was true. So sad that it makes all the new stories fell true.
Sad for everyone. Especially the children.
I know. I never read what I thought were any reliable leaks until that People cover ran. That’s why I’m convinced his PR is leaking these stories.
Vanessa and the children don’t deserve this treatment. No matter what you think of her. She doesn’t deserve to be disrespected in the public for wanting a stable family with the man that said he loved her.
People.com has an article up saying they have been unoffically separated for a year.
i still dont know why her boarding his private jet means they are boning. they live in a different world. i give people that i know a ride in my car, johnny gives them a flight in his private jet. thats actually not such of a big difference.
I don’t understand why it is so hard for people to get through their head that Amber is not a full-blown lesbian. Particularly Lainey, who goes on these bizarre tangents about it.
i seriously dont think there is anything happening with amber.
cos according to a new article in people mag, amber serious gf was also on the vegas trip with them.
this is the article:http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20605819,00.html
most likely he is friendly with them all and just spending time with friends.
according to the gossip it his pr lady that is likely his new bed warmer
This is all Johnny and his PR team putting out stories to make him the victim so people will understand him leaving. He is just setting the stage for when he is photographed again w/Amber.
So what happened to live with the kids and her on a private perfect island they owned.. running around naked all the time.. grow old, grumpy, wise and fat like Brando Dream?
It was only good to sell all this Disney movies.
If he’s bored it’s because he’s boring. What an ass. I never thought I would feel that way about Johnny Depp. Lol
Depp seems like a little boy who doesn’t want to grow up. He’s a pudgy 50 year old gazillionaire who poses as a “rebel”. He’s a Disney boy, for crap’s sake.
agreed. he has always been such a wannabe. never bought the whole, ‘im such a rebel artist’ thing.
It’s really a pity..
How can you be ‘bored senseless’ with a committed wife, two beautiful and healthy kids and so much money to even buy your own island?! Grow up, Johnny! This is ridiculous! Do you really need to boost your ego on your family’s back? *groar*
Because they were separated most of the times!!
For what all the people says and is very easy to believe (Johnny working all over the world meanwhile Vanessa was in France or LA) they spent so much time apart
I hope they can dial down the ugly for the kids’ sakes.
Why do break-ups have to be so damn bitter?
Wow, thank goodness he loves his kids otherwise he might really let people know how he feels about his ex-SO and mother of his children smh
His kids are too young to understand and will read this as “the family bored me, I needed to get away from them”. That’s a shame because the only eff up here is Johnny.
These are not his words, you know – it’s just a gossip article
Ugh, as soon as I saw her name, I started reading this in Lainey’s voice.
I just noticed that he too way more care with his RC look when he was with her. Some men are like that. They dress better with a woman then they do without. I notice too that when they stopped doing RC together his dress choice really started to look bad. Some men are different they work it with their partner or not. But others are like Johnny.
Vanessa made him look like a grown up. I need to look at past pictures. Maybe his bum look got worst according to how their relationship was going. Look at how great he looks in the pictures with her. Then look at other RCs.. not the same at all.
Agree jackie o; the travails and tortures of a pseudo-intellectual didn’t he leave high school in what 10th grade; Boring my ass, like he’s Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and Mozart all wrapped up in a Keith Richards wannabee get up. Please.
Of course he’s leaving. Because he can! I know so many people stuck in the soul sucking boredom of a bad marriage because they cant afford to get out. This comes with the added bonus of teaching their kids to stay in horrible situations as not to disrupt the family finances.
Sometimes people fall out of love. It happens. Would you stay in a relationship if you were unhappy? I sure as hell wouldn’t.
I left a good relationship because I was unhappy, but I was too stupid at the time to WORK out my problems.
I thought I would be happier without him. That was a huge mistake.
Not saying JD hasn’t tried, but I feel that too many relationships and marriages are …disposable, (for lack of a better word) these days.
Yes I would, if it meant my children would be happy.
To say he’s leaving his family because he’s bored is immature and nasty. If he said they grew apart and they didn’t love each other the same anymore would be understandable. Maybe that’s what happened. From past statements he has made he obviously has difficulty articulating his feelings.
I hate that his PR is dragging Vanessa through the mud! She is not perfect, but I’m sure she has had AMPLE opportunity while being in a 14 year relationship with “Johnny Depp” to disrespect him and his Disney image.
What is $150 million? I mean at what $$ amount can you say to yourself, me and my kids will be good on this? 10, 25M? Enough to live “comfortably” on in LA should be enough and i personally find that to be far less than 150M. Greed is a truly nasty trait and far too common, esp in HWood.
I’ve always been a Johnny fan. But the last few years, he’s looking pretty gross and stinky. I think it was Vanessa who wanted out knowing he was probably fooling around on her with God knows what. Run, Vanessa, run!
I don’t buy that “boredom” was the only thing that led to the demise of their partnership. If it was however, then I agree with the other posters that it is a crappy reason to end a long term relationship. I am divorced but there were many, serious reasons that led to the demise of our marriage. It sounds to me that it ended because he couldn’t stop partying and chasing women. UGH!
and what about him kissing his publicist?
Of course he would make out with a publicist at a public event in front of cameras and a large crowd. They really have pictures of them just going for it.
Depp is best paired with Kate Moss. They almost look like the same person, same swagger.
But I’m glad to see how Moss now settled down nicely with Jamie Hince and how beautiful and radiant she looked on her wedding day.
I wonder if Depp would actually stay long with Paradis had she not gotten herself pregnant within 3 months of meeting him?
“got herself pregnant”
Yep, all on her lonesome! Clever gal.
Yes Embee, Vanessa is a very clever girl!
It was Vanessa…in the bathroom.. with Deppshit’s discarded French Letter and a turkey baster!
Vanessa obviously spent too much time in her childhood playing Clue. Jeez
Maybe she told him she was on the pill and then whoops it didn’t work.
If I were to guess, it is Vanessa who is the mature one, not Johnny. If he felt the marriage had become lifeless, he is also to blame because both of them make the marriage. The spark is not always as bright as during the first few years together, but I’m kind of glad (for Vanessa’s sake) that he has moved on, giving her a chance to find love again with someone not as quirky. You can see it in her face, she is so down to earth, she’s probably been really good for him, but now he wants to play and take advantage of what is around him. I honestly cannot see Amber Heard going for him in a real way. I do not see a new relationship lasting long for him, but I do see Vanessa with a new stable partner, if that’s what she wants.
Hey, here’s an idea. Since everyone is making up their own “facts” about what happened, what if Vanessa found someone else and was having an affair? Proof? Heck no…who needs proof when you can just invent your own truth. She’s the one out looking at multi-million dollar homes in L.A. She has also really racked up the frequent flyer miles, making almost weekly trips to France, this past month or so. All by herself..no kids. Who does she leave them with? She has spent a ton a time in France, making movies and going to fashion gigs…she’s not exactly the stay at home mom. And Johnny has made no comments to the press and now he’s being crucified? That sounds about right.
He would never say something like even if it was true because it would make him look bad! What do you think he is? Stupid.
Yes actually, yes. I do think he’s that stupid.
I USED to be a huge fan of his. HUGE. Watched all his odd quirky films. Loved him.
But he’s been growing weirder and weirder. Stranger and stranger. If you go back and have read all of his recent articles he comes off as the most arrogant, condecending, elitist jerk there ever was. No shred of the down to earth humble johnny that used to be.
In addition to that this purposeful “Im so beautiful I can be ugly” thing is tired and old and oh, so affected.
The bottom line is he is a rich arrogant jerk who is in a full on panic over his age. Throw in major addictions and easy access to young eager chicks and there you go.
Mr. Depp has ruined himself and has become a total tool. He isent even a shadow of the sublimity of what he once was. I dont even LIKE him any more as he is unlikeable now. read the interviews.
The old johnny Depp would never gripe in public about the hardship of paying rich persons taxes. In these economic times how Fg dare you.
I am already over this breakup. Maybe it is because I am annoyed that everyone seems to think that Johnny is the bad guy and Paradis is the one who did everything right. Just because he was seen getting drunk in one night he is having a midlife crisis all of a sudden. Maybe he was coping with Paradis leaving him for someone else or something. She always seemed odd to me and Johnny was always SO into her. We don’t know what happened, I just don’t think Johnny should be villainized! (Is that a word, sry, I am german)
I remember people were mocking Angelina and brad when she filmed the tourist saying Depp is the real man and he will never cheat on the beautiful Vanessa.
Aniston is the harmless yet she was involved in questionable relation with her boy toy.
Depp was the man yet he cheats on Vanessa.
I remember how they hushed up those rumours of trouble in paradise when he was supposedly boning Christina Ricci. Methinks those rumours were true although he denied them. This is the same guy who said the birth of Lily Rose saved his life. Said Vanessa keeps him grounded & reminds him how lucky he is when he gets to complaining. Sounds to me like she’s well rid, he’ll go straight back to his self distructive ways. He said the love of his life was his wife, then Winona. He said the love of his life was now Kate Moss, then left her. He said the same about Vanessa, hung around a bit longer for the kids (wow 14 yrs, must’ve killed him, even though they don’t live normal couple lives and he wouldn’t have seen a lot of her)then dumped her. so just you wait, around the corner is another LOVE OF HIS LIFE! waiting to be dumped!
I pity his children, one not yet in double figures and the other about to hit puberty.
I kinda figured something was wrong though when Lily was seen parading around like a hooker at the age of 11. Seems dad is not around & the kid is looking for attention 🙁 So sad.
Jack, hi! I think Winona did the dumping back then. Her father thought she was too young to be with him…
So agree about Lilly Rose, get that girl out of LA, this will not end well.
This will be a lengthy post, so bear with me. I will be objective with this, despite happening to meet the man and being a long time Johnny Depp admirer.
First things first…for God’s sake, do people read anything apart from the headline? In no way did Johnny said something like that about Vanessa. People all over the Internet assume he stated these rude comments, when in fact it’s not the case. The person who said he was bored senseless is a very reliable and trustworthy source (sarcasm) giving the scoop to an equally trustworthy website (RadarOnline). Johnny is way too classy and too much of a gentleman to speak publicly about such intimate stuff and he would never use such terms to describe his relationship with Vanessa, even if he would feel like that.
I was really saddened by the news. I really hoped and wanted them to make it, for me they were the perfect celebrity couple. Even though the rumors have been circulating for quite a while, I always said that I will trust their word and not the press’ and this is why the news took me by surprise. Sure, in my subconscious I somehow knew there was something strange going on, but I just thought they were doing things together incognito – after all, Vajoliroja was less than a year ago (the pictures caught by the paparazzi where the two get steamy on their boat). What could have possibly happened in the meantime? It felt suspicious to me as well that Vanessa didn’t attend MTV, but I preferred thinking that she was busy with other things. I just didn’t want to accept the obvious, that there was a sad aura surrounding Johnny lately. His odd behavior and his appearances where he looked tired/sad were probably not a mid-life crisis as you guys so fiercely suggest, but being in the middle of a separation. I believe it started while they were growing apart and not that that was the reason for the separation. Why would Johnny suddenly change now? Why does everybody believe that he suddenly became a jerk, after he had been living happily with Vanessa for 14 years? It’s just like the press paints him to be, because they feel they have nothing more interesting to say about him. If you ever met him, then you know that he is a goodhearted guy.
I will always be eternally grateful to Vanessa for giving him reasons to live, for making him happy, for helping him deal with his demons and of course, for giving him two precious kids. Curiously enough, I knew of Vanessa before I knew of Johnny (I was about 4 years old when they were playing “Joe le taxi” on the radio), but I only started admiring her after admiring Johnny. I never once hated her or envied her – as an admirer, I want what’s best for Johnny and I was simply happy that she was making him happy and his happiness is what matters the most to me. I eventually became her fan as well – I love her music and movies and nothing has changed.
But in a way, if this is the best thing for them, I am glad they did this step and not just stay together for the sake of their kids, no matter how much it hurts. I am sure they thought about this for months…it’s not like they woke up today and decided to split. They probably tried to fix it and after seeing that it’s to no use, they tried finding the best moment to announce it. Of course he wouldn’t say anything about the split while promoting “Dark Shadows”, since he isn’t the type of guy to try promoting his own movie by giving out a shocking info about his private life. He doesn’t want fame out of controversy. I am sure they both thought about the right moment to do it.
There is still a part of me that hopes that one day they will get back together, especially since I am a hopeless romantic. Who knows…maybe they will film their movie My American Lover after all some time in the future, since not long ago Vanessa mentioned she had hopes to do it with him and this maybe will light up the old flame. I get a bit wooshy when it comes to relationships, because I am kinda old-fashioned, believing that love with a single person can last forever. This is in part due to the fact that my parents have been married for 25 years and they are still going strong. And never once did I feel that the love between them was gone. Now I am starting to believe more and more that it’s a rarity to stick with the same partner for most of your life.
I do believe though that it’s better to be apart and happy than to be miserable together. I don’t think it helps the kids to have their parents together just for their sake – I couldn’t stand if they would act like two strangers living in the same house – it’s painful for all the parties involved and it does more harm than good for the kids. After all, a split doesn’t mean disconnection and I am sure that Johnny, being a loving father, won’t neglect them.
Of course the press will do anything but respect his privacy. They were already hooking him up with every co-star of his from the past 3-4 years, even with some who aren’t into men (Amber Heard). Just the thought that they will follow them now more than ever and that every time he’ll be seen with some woman, they will say she is a lover…it sickens me, it really does. I can already see those “Angelina Jolie is the reason for the couple’s split” articles coming. That’s just pure crap and I can’t believe so many people fall for those kind of stupid rumors. It sickens me that some are already waiting to see their next companions or worse – who see themselves as their companions, since usually when a split goes public, it’s because one of them already has someone and there are already rumors that Vanessa is dating someone. I do have the feeling though that for one reason or the other, she was the one who wanted to move on and that he had nothing to do with any of the rumored women he supposedly cheated on. Johnny was never the cheater type. Nobody ever caught him in the act…and trust me, he’s too big of a celebrity not to be caught if that would be the case. Let’s see…With Robin Baum, he was apparently caught kissing. But they were on an airport with his bodyguard/friend behind and the angle makes it look as if they are kissing, but a closer look reveals that the kiss is not on the mouth and they rather seem to be talking loudly. I took tons of pictures like that, giving the illusion that the people are kissing when they are not.
Amber Heard is not into men and he just gave her and her GIRLFRIEND a lift at Cinema Con with his private jet. Nothing wrong with that. The stupid horse thing is like that other hilarious rumor that Johnny had apparently given Lindsey Lohan a piece of his island to relax far from the press. Angelina…it’s enough to watch their interviews together to see that there is no spark there between them. One of the Olsen twins…he was in fact visiting Patti Smith that day, who happens to live in the same area, to record music together. And the Olsen girl apparently was at that time at the Oscars After-Party. Eva Green? Nah…apart from the fact that she already is in a relationship, she is way too much of a lady to get in a relationship with someone who is already taken and the way she spoke of him doesn’t suggest more than a friendship. If anything, I saw her closer to her female co-star Bella Heathcote than him. So this leaves us with nobody. Why do people always assume that the reason for a separation is cheating? It just happens…sometimes, love dies. Maybe it’s because they both work at the same time, not having time for each other…who knows. Whatever the reason was, we should all respect their wishes for privacy and not try to find the guilty ones.
When a relationship is over, they both have their blame, so it’s useless to point fingers. I am certain none of them will ever speak publicly about what happened or bash each other. After all, they’ve been together for 14 years, practically spending together their best years and none of them ever said anything negative about their past flames.
I don’t know what happened, I don’t care and this is none of my business. I think his gigs were a form of catharsis, a way of dealing with the pain of the separation. All the people he joined on stage are longtime friends. Music was always his first love – he didn’t suddenly start to rock the stage, but just wanted to go back to this art he is so good at. As for Marilyn Manson, they are very good friends from the early 90s and Marilyn is a pretty cool and intelligent guy when he’s not showing off his controversial persona. There were even interviews where Johnny said that Marilyn often played with Barbie dolls with his daughter.
Looking back now, it’s clear that the separation which consumed him was the reason for his ‘tired look’ and antics. Whatever they will decide to do next, I wish them to be happy and find the peace they need. I hope his old demons won’t come back and he’ll remain the same great guy I admire, love and respect. But I guess that now that the news is all over the place, they both feel relieved in a way…I just wish them the best.
Alex you are spot on about some things. We all get older and want to start living again. It is best if he remain alone and focus on his career and date when he feels he needs company. He needs to be left alone and to discover himself all over again. As far as his co stars he has not shown any interest in them. He just needs to get his life in order and let Vanessa bloom in her life as she is surely a great person. He will not be coming out with someone new. He is only going to be seen out with some friends and create music and maybe do some writing. He will always be a family man first and a good friend to his friends.
As Tim Burton said Johnny belongs with Winona Ryder. God, that would be epic!
He needs a total makeover. Stringy hair, ridiculous wardrobe choices. He looks old, greasy and affected. Ugh.
He’s just being selfish. It’s all “me, me, me” for him. Maybe she was bored with your a@s too? Ever thought of that?
I hate when everything wrong with the relationship points to the wife, and these idiots thinking that they are SUCH A Prize. The wives may not always be happy WITH THEM EITHER.
What WE do though to feel good, better, and sometimes just escape is get a new hairstyle, or new shoes, a pedicure. Not run around like a teenage boy, flirting, and sometimes cheating on our girlfriends/spouses.
IKR! The wife is always blamed, and the guys try to make out like the husband was the saint who put up with “her” crap for so long… puh-lease.
And Depp bouncing back with a (what the hell you call her) a “confused lesbian” (???) who’s involved with a partner… HUH? That just screams publicity stunt. I’m sure *that’s* good for his kids.
Another one of those situations where it DOESN’T take two to tango: Depp went nuts all by himself and VP is just treading carefully, hoping he doesn’t make a complete ass of himself to the kids.
If “sources” are leaking this much to Radar about “johnny’s feelings” then its probably due to a fight over 1. money and 2. custody. Lawyers make excellent sources on Radar and TMZ.
Robin Baum wouldn’t work with Radar Online. Especially since they posted a new article about rumors of her “relationship” with him. You really think she approved this. Or that she works with People these days since they are dragging her name with the break up.
At least he doesn’t beat up his exes like Michael Fassbender right? Or that is fine with people on this site.
Or maybe Robin Baum leaked this story and now Vanessa is responding on the same website. And you talk about Michael Fassbender being abusive but how about Mr Depp ? wasn’t he rumoured to be physically abusive to Kate Moss back in the days, remember the whole hotel room trashing, the paparazzi assaulting, he sure has a bad temper.
Oh great, now he’s a girlfriend beater? Where the hell did you get that from? He was alone in the hotel room when he trashed it. And the paparazzi were ruining his romantic dinner with peggy Vanessa when he took a plank and hit one’s hand. But can you really blame him for assaulting a paparazzo, knowing how they are hunting the celebrities like predators? He told them repeatedly and politely that he wanted to have dinner with his girl, they were getting more and more vicious and in the end, he snapped.
It’s not like he’s proud of those room-trashing days. He said often that back then, he was immature, his life didn’t have a real meaning. It was a bad day for him, he trashed a room and he paid for it. End of the story. It’s ridiculous how everybody is trying to make Johnny look like the villain. People separate. It happens. And cheating is not the only reason why couples split. As for the paparazzi altercation, these are the words of the man himself:
“We were at a restaurant, and Vanessa was extremely pregnant. All they wanted were photographs of me and Vanessa and the belly. At that point I thought, “Man, I’m not one of those whiny actors who says, Oh, the paparazzi, they wont leave me alone.” I could give a fuck about it. However, on this particular night I just decided, Look, this is my girl. This is our first baby. I’m not going to let you fucking people turn this into a circus. You ain’t turning this deeply, profoundly beautiful, spiritual, life-changing experience into a novelty. Not without a fight. I went out and talked to them. I said, “Look, guys, I know what you’re after. I understand you have a job to do. But you’re just not going to turn this into a circus. Just give us a break. You’re not going to get what you want tonight. I’ll see you another time.” They were very aggressive: “Fuck you, Johnny.” That kind of shit. I swung around and told Vanessa, “Go out the front door, get in the car so they don’t get us together or get your belly.” She did. She was in the car, so everything was going to be cool, but they were so shitty. One guy was trying to hold the door open. He had his hand wedged in there. I looked down at the ground, and there was a 17-inch wooden plank, a two-by-two or something. Instinct took over. I picked it up and whacked the guy’s hand. I went outside and said, “Now I want you to take my picture, because the first fucking guy who hits a flash, I’m going to kick his skull in. Let’s go. Take my picture.” They didn’t take my picture. I was livid. They walked backward down the street. I walked them away from Vanessa in the car and down this other street. It was beautiful. It was well worth it. It was kind of poetic. The next thing I knew, I saw flashing lights on the buildings around me. And a paddy wagon. It was brief. It was around 11:30 or midnight, and I was out by five or six the next morning. No one filed charges against me, because they didn’t want their names exposed. Had they filed charges they would have had to give their names and would have lost their anonymity. The cops were actually terrific, real sweet. As I said, I didn’t mind as much before I had kids. Everything changes when it comes to my children. (2004) “
Sorry Alexandra I didn’t bother reading your post way too long, I was just responding to Lis who is a huge JD fan just like you. I never said I had proofs but like it or not there were rumors back in the days, and yes he definitely has a bad temper especially when he has too much to drink.
Does anyone know if she is related to Debra Baum, the music PR/management chick?
I’ve been trying to find out and I don’t want to ask her myself. She was TFF’s manager, just wondering if they come from a line of Hwood Baums.
This article clearly does Johnny no favors and I doubt his PR team had anything to do with it. While I defend Vanessa as clearly “not boring”, I do think they jumped into a family life too soon together.
They probably tried to make it work for a lonnnng time, and in the end they didn’t have enough in common to to do so.
Vanessa will look bad here in France because she repeatly lied to the press. I wish she would take those kids home though, and not try to raise them in fishbowl hwood.
What story are you talking about Normades ? Because the first Radar story is clearly putting all the blame on Vanessa and kinda try to excuse JD. I still think Johnny and his publicist/lover start trashing her for some reason (money? custody ? ) and now she’s trashing them in return.
TRIED to make it work? FOR 14 YEARS?? Who stays in a relationship for so long if it’s not working? There is no doubt in my mind that they lived some very happy days together. If you go back to the interviews where they talk about each other, there is a spark in them that can’t be faked. Don’t make it sound as if they were struggling the whole time with the relationship, when in fact they were living a happy couple life.
I doubt she will look bad in France. They both said there was no truth to the rumors, but each was promoting his movie when they were asked, so saying so openly that they split would have looked like a marketing move to boost their movies. They are both way too classy to try to promote their work through controversy, not to mention that they are the types of people who keep family matters private. They waited for the right moment to issue a statement and they probably tried for months to save the relationship.
Taking the kids back to France would make it more difficult for Johnny to see them and I am sure they both want what’s best for the kids.
The radar article with “bored senseless”. Makes him look like an insesitive jerk. I don’t think (hope) this is his PR people’s doing.
Just because Depp is basically an overgrown hispter don’t assume he’s blase about his money. No one, not even the most zen person on earth would be like “here take half my money just because”. Especially when it comes to that much money.
I bet Moss is kicking herself for getting married a few months before this ended. I never really bought that she was over him.
And the fact that Johnny married such a Kate ringer (although Kate is prettier) shows that he wasn’t either (I just figured Kate never wanted to grow up and that’s why he called it quits. Hell she still hasn’t grown up).
Took the words right out of my mouth. Kate is kicking herself. Back in the day, I swear Vanessa & Kate looked identical to me. It was actually kind of creepy, like he was dating a Kate doppelgänger.
Jennifer Aniston please hand over your victomhood card immediately to Vanessa Paradis. There is a new triangle now. Sorry, but that’s just the way it goes.
she’ll never hand it over, it’s her meal ticket, sorry.
I don’t think he’s bored, I think he’s just having a mid-life crisis. They will totally get back together. . .
I feel like I’ve lost some interest in Johnny 🙁 I was meh about seeing him in Pirates 4 last year and had no interest in Dark Shadows.
Johnny was never an alcoholic. Getting drunk occasionally does not equal being an alcoholic. Yes, he tried everything, but he never went with anything so far to the point that he would need rehab. He knew when to stop. Sure, he was a lot more immature and doing a lot of s–t until he became a father, something that he admits as well. As for the bad temper, he might have trashed rooms, but he would never touch a woman. I don’t think the temper had anything to do with alcohol, but rather with not being able to control himself. But that was more than 10 years ago – he is more grounded now.
Its a very open fact in Hwd that Depp is an alcoholic with substance issues Alex. I’m really sorry and I know your a huge fan and you devote a large amount of time to defending him on here but really. The man is far from grounded and hes a big, BIG drinker.
Sadly this is true. Just look at photos of him from 2008 and photos of him now.
The bloat. That skin. 5 years will not do THAT to an individual with the funds to look after themselves, exercise, eat right buy the products etc etc..
This is substance abuse… drugs, alcohol… It’s really sad but he needs a good clean up.
He should have stayed in France. Sure drugs and alcohol are available but more time in the country with Vanessa and kids = less time with eneablers.
This is bad and will only get worse. He needs to fire his PR and hire a life coach.
Did Brad Pitt say the same thing about his marriage to JA?
NO he didn’t and this is about Johnny not Brad.
I know that is hard for some, but that is the facts.
Amber is a straight up lesbian, no questions. As much as this straight guy would like her fine self to be straight too, the stories over the years have been too consistent for her to be anything but lesbian.
When she first started out, even before her “mini”-fame with ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE, already then there were tons of rumors about her being lez. How she’d got eyes for only the ladies. It was an open secret on lesbian forums that she’s more interested in fish than meat…
It’s been only the last few years, when she’s gotten mainstream recognition, that she’s started calling herself bi, though she’s never had a steady boyfriend in Hollywood ever and that the current gf of hers isn’t even her first steady gf!
Of course, none of this means that she’s not dating JD. I’m sure she won’t be the last nor the first to put out for a job…
I’ve got no idea if she is or not, but I wanna remind people that her lesbianism won’t preclude from her turning straight for pay.
Sounds like Robin Baum (that totally “exciting” publicist of his) has been spinning this one. Check out Vanessa Paradis and Mathieu Chedid (gorgeous man, 10 years younger than JD) and Vanessa’s mysterious hook ups with Benjamin Biolay. Check out the very cute dark-haired guy that plays acoustic guitar for her on several of her videos. She has won several awards for her acting ability, is a top singer in France, and a top model. If you want to see what JD walked away from, google Lenny Kravitz and Vanessa singing “Natural High” acapella, or her very real performances in LA (2010)or any of her performance videos. She’s an amazing musician and loves her children. Now, he can have a really exciting life with the likes of Marilyn Manson, his publicist, typical startlets like Ashley Simpson, Amber Heard, etc., etc. Add that to his very boring fake English accent and you’ve got another typical mid-life Hollywood dude just lookin for excitement. Johnny what went wrong? As soon as he came to LA he turned “ordinary”–their life in France and keeping out of the limelight made them special. Must be the money. I’m watching Vanessa’s star after this one.
Great post. I’m with you 100% on this. Vanessa is anything but boring. She’s crammed a hell of a lot into her life, even if a lot of it doesnt make its way to North American audiences (except to Quebec – she has a good following there). If Vanessa Paradis is boring than starlets of Holywood should just throw themselves into the Pacific now…
Wow, to think after 14 years he’d have something more profound to wrap his relationship in. She must be kicking herself for the wasted time on such a douchebag. He should shut up.
I think that Robin Baum, his *manager is taking the hit and letting her name get slimed because it is good for business. He makes money, she makes money. Hollywood is a business afterall. By throwing in Amber Heard and her, they are overshadowing Eva Green. Ibet in 6 mo. or so, he will suddenly be dating Eva Green. Hollywood is covering his a** because he is their money maker.
I don’t think she’s getting 150 million either. California doesn’t recognize domestic partnerships, so no way she’s getting that much. But, I don’t see her as the gold-digger type. I’m sure she’s gettin P A I D bigtime but I’m also sure she wants to be civilized for the kids. And so what if Johnny wants to have some “fun” with this or that or whatever? He’s not the first person nor will he be the last to have some post-break up sex-a-thons! Go for it, Johnny!
I’ve not been able to click on this article until now – it’s too painful, and if he really said that, how cruel of him. (Regular readers will know why I feel this way. And no, I haven’t read the comments yet.)
IF he really felt that way, he has a responsibility to both Vanessa AND his children to STFU and not let that kind of thing circulate in the press.
I don’t care whom or what he’s doing, but he has children to think of…someone simply SAYING “he loves his kids more than life itself” means this type of headline should NEVER have made it to the media.
Hey Bellaluna,
Didn’t want to comment on this article but when I saw your name I thought you’d like to know that you have been in my thoughts lately. For all the trash talk on this site, I did want to say that I consider regular posters to be internet sisters and I always am saddened to hear of problems. Anyway, I have been sending out postive vibes and prayers for your strength intermittently today and even if they didn’t help maybe knowing that someone in this big ole heartless world is thinking of you does! 🙂
Oh, Kara Ann, thank you! It does help, and I’m doing okay. Things are sort-of settled, for now. What remains to be seen, I do not know. (How very “Beeeel” from True Blood of me – see, my sense of humour remains!)
I appreciate any and all positive vibes from my fellow CB’ers. (We are a tight bunch, aren’t we?)
I’ve been on the receiving end of cruel statements, and they cut SO. DEEP. (I won’t say them here, because they are still too fresh.)
(I honestly don’t think he realises what he’d be giving up, but that’s not for me to decide. “They don’t miss it until it’s gone” and all that blather.)
@bellaluna —
Sorry I’m so late to post this but let me share the only thing of value I ever took from Oprah:
A man’s rejection is God’s protection.
You will get through this. You’ve got way too many people sending you the happy stuff! 😀
wow, that is a very nasty comment by the source (if real). not doing johnny any favours at all. not to mention immature and unclassy. i thought he was better than that.
How condescending and rude. Bored with her? Because he’s such a fascinating Disney star? Can’t you just say, I loved her and it didn’t work out and I’m in pain? I thought better of Johnny Depp.
If that’s supposed to paint him as the victim and garner him sympathy, it’s not working. It makes him seem like a selfish, whiny c*nt.
“But I don’t wanna be a grownup anymore. I’m BORED!” Brat. Grow the f*ck up.
Dis Bitch! Suffering from mid-life crisis and blaming VP smh. LOVE his Pirates movies but he better not be going down the Mel Gibson/Demi Moore early alzheimer’s ‘can’t handle aging’ cray street. *waves finger* I have put up with some real dumb S being a Depp fan, Dark Shadows just being the most recent; he should at least keep his misogynist childish imbecilic thoughts to his damned self.
Robin Baum did not work with People Magazine in January for their cover. Why do you think Baum gave the official statement of the split to
ET tonight and not People?
She is also not working with Radar Online since they published a story about her and Johnny Depp now.
People Magazine has gone the tabloid route now to make money which is sad. They are willing to risk the wrath of publicists to get sales.
Depp would never say something like this. Even when asked about their relationship in May he only had positive things to say. He WILL NOT say anything disrespectful about the mother of his children.
Oooh, this is going to be a long night for JD. I thought this was the very reason he left Hollywood for France?
oh look!, it’s Johnny drifting again like in the 90’s but now middle aged, grow up Johnny, don’t worry Vanessa you are better off him go and find a better man and be happy you deserve it not this crap
Bottom line people is that the idea of staying with the same person for the rest of your life is unrealistic. And in the case of Johnny Depp and others like Leo it’d be plain stupid. Why buy the book when you can go to the library? Work hard and play hard until you die!!!!!!
And Radar is getting this exclusive from where exactly?
Ugh I hate when a couple breaks up and 1 party in the couple throws shade at the other one. It’s so low class/disrespectful. Here is a woman he spent nearly 15 years with and now he’s going to slag her? Really? I am a Johnny Depp fan, and have been forever but if he is the one putting out stories through his PR team, that is really low grade of him.
I do wonder if he’s going to go off the rails and start bedding reality stars who will sell books/stories about their wild nights and sexcapades together and then his entire celebrity that he’s built up around being private/mysterious is going to go to the dogs. Vanessa was perfect for him because she understood discretion and they were both so private together. I don’t want Johnny to go out like so many of these actors who guard their privacy and then one day, it’s all out in the open cause they have a mid-life crisis.
I can’t see anything good coming out of him hanging out with Marilyn Manson all the time. I know they’ve been friends forever but if he’s hooking up w/ him even more now, I expect a lot of weird things/stories to come out.
This reminds me of when Brad Pitt did that interview saying how “bored” he was when he was married to Jennifer Aniston. He came off as a total jerk because of it, too.
Never trust anyone who never has a kind word to speak of their ex.
You know who has mastered to art of being classy when talking about his exes? Ryan Gosling. He always sings their praises and for this, he is that much cooler, IMO.
I think the way someone speaks of their ex, someone they claimed to love and chose to spend a long time with, says a lot about them as a person/about their character.
Wow, check out all of the man bashing over what is most probably a fabricated story (I’m a woman BTW). Yes relationships have to be nurtured and worked at hard, especially when children are involved but how do we know they’ve not been working hard for years before finally deciding to split. Vanessa Paradis was pregnant within a matter of months after first meeting Depp who was still at the time reeling from his split with Kate Moss. Things happened very quickly and the pregnancy was described at the time as an unexpected but happy surprise- i.e. not planned, well certainly not by Johnny anyway….Cynical spectators could say that maybe it was Paradis way of trying to ‘trap’ him by falling pregnant but again that’s conjecture too. Whatever the reasons behind the split they will both have publicists working hard to try and make the other look bad and the tabloids need very little fodder to start fabricating anyway.
As far as Amber is concerned I’m inclined to go with the view that she is a lesbian but pandering to the requirements of her PR team- she can still be ‘sold’ as a leading lady with chemistry with her co stars if bi, this dries up if she is 100% into women. Sad but true
If the feelings aren’t the same, can’t be mad at him. If he’s with 20 something Amber Heard then I will be very disgusted. She will do anything to get her career off and calls paparazzi. She’s so young. Really Johnny Depp? Men are so pathetic with their midlife crises.
I think what broke them up is he is a fame whore who LOVES and needs the limelight. Vanessa is down to earth and much more secure than him and doesnt crave or need the public affirmation he so badly needs. She didnt want to live in the spotlight and regardless of what he says he LOVES the spotlight & couldnt hack a low key life with family.
THIS ^
Great Point! Now that I think about it, Larry King said that to him in that interview they did last year. JD said he probably makes too many movies, and King said to him “because you need that camera.” It kinda made JD uncomfortable.
Yes kim, I agree. I read somewhere that Johnny needed to leave France because they were going to start charging him gobs of tax money because he was living there so much. So, they move to L.A. where he can make more money so he can pass it on to his kids. I do agree that he and Vanessa lost the gamble that their love could survive Hollywood. She has put her career on hold, and is a really great actress and singer. In the end, he chose money and fame over familial bliss. That’s a choice that will follow him around for quite a while.
My anonymous source thinks SHE was tired of greasy hair on the pillow and of scruffy outfits scattered outside the dirty linen basket.
All this is quite funny. I bet the one to be bored was Vanessa … maybe she was tired with JD’s immature attitude and his addiction to alcool… I think this is the real matter. Bonne journée à toutes et à tous.
Hey I just wanted to add my 2 cents. Personally, this story sounds fake, fake, fake. Johnny Depp, to me, always struck me as a very private person and would not be blabbing to the press, especially like this. Also, I find it hard to believe that ANY publicist worth their salt would publish such a statement, as judging from all the nasty comments to this article, it doesn’t make Johnny Depp look good at all. In fact, it makes Vanessa look really good in comparison. Don’t misunderstand me – I don’t think he’s a saint or anything but I do know that the paparazzi love to make up shit and find something when there is nothing. I think people are getting WAY too emotional when we really don’t know all the facts. I do think he has a substance abuse problem. I mean, he does hang out with Marilyn Manson, and as much as I love Manson, he is heavy into the drugs. It could have contributed to the breakup but not necessarily, as for all we know she could be into the drugs as well. People always assume it’s one and not the other. As a former drug abuser myself, many times it’s both people in the relationship, not just one, especially one that lasted 17 years. I also want to state that pretty much everyone in Hollywood has a substance abuse problem as well, not just the rocker-looking ones. Anyways, that’s all I have to say.
1 Vanessa never did drugs she is very very open about her past and she never said anything as for all we know she is not intro drugs but she drinks wine and smokes,
2 she is not from hollywood she is french
3 they were together 14 years (or probably 13) not 17
4 he is the one self destructive inmature and with a midlife crisis.
and come on, we all know he f–ked it up and she was trying to work it out, there are new pics of him with a. heard he is already dating her, jfc he is screaming midlife crisis
http://youtu.be/wzXtxqMRd8g
lmfao OMG so accurate
I have had multiple sources say that Depp had an affair with Eva Green before he formerly split with Vanessa. Now it is apparently over. Apparently, she had an affair with Benjamin Biolay.
People forget about Johnny Depp’s first marriage where he cheated on his wife with a co-star and this hookup was openly discussed.
His breakup with Kate Moss was not official when he hooked up with Vanessa who had a boyfriend she was living with. The man does not have a good track record.
DISGUSTING FUR CRUELTY!!!