Johnny Depp’s marriage may be one of those quietly brewing storms, but he’s always maintained a good relationship with his kids. He and Vanessa Paradis are no longer together (of course), yet we never hear anything from either party about how the kids are raised. Some people think all celebrity kids are doomed to be messes. Not all of them are. I’ve heard buzzings about 16-year-old Lily Rose Depp’s often skimpy clothing and smoking habit. She’s a teenager, and both her parents smoke (especially Johnny), so it’s what she knows. Criticizing a teenager seems silly when it’s the parents who should be accountable.
Johnny spoke to the German Gala magazine (via The Telegraph) to talk about how he’s concerned about Lily growing up so fast. She’s one of Karl Lagerfeld’s favorite fashion girls already, and she’s starring in a Kevin Smith movie too (along with Johnny). Here’s what Johnny thinks:
Her 52-year-old father has gone on the record to say: “To be honest, I’m quite worried,” he told Germany’s Gala magazine of his only daughter’s career. “I wasn’t expecting all this to happen to Lily-Rose, especially not at this age. But it’s her passion and she’s having fun.”
But the actor said of his daughter: “She knows I’m always there for her.”
[From The Telegraph
Well, I think it’s inevitable that the fashion world would take notice of Lily Rose. Her mom has always been a fashion muse, and Vanessa and Johnny made some beautiful kids together. The acting thing seems a little odd, especially since the Yoga Hosers horror comedy will probably go nowhere. I have my doubts about Johnny being seriously concerned. Lily Rose is daddy’s little girl, but he also says some random crap during interviews. His judgment is warped at times, and maybe yeah, he’s a little worried. But not too much.
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Oh well…
it would be strange if he didn’t worry. It’s his child.
She’ll be fine, i think. Her mom seems like a good influence. Maybe. Probably. Hopefully.
Gosh I was such a fan of Vanessa Paradis when I was a kid and she was a teen pop sensation in France! Lily Rose reminds me of her, a LOT.
Agreed. To me this is tha tipical “dad is worried” thing, more than anything else.
Oh shaddup Johnny. I hope your daughter has the career your trophy wife has always wanted. Lol
Depp and Paradis ended things when Lily was 11 or 12 right? Thats an age when a young girl needs her father. Instead Lily had to see her Dad throw her Mom over just as she hit 40 for a girl half his age..and be besotted and focused on a new young girlfriend. I don’t know what that does to a kid, especially a daughter but my guess is, lily doesn’t care what Johnny has to say about what she does. He’s got a new toy and a new life.
I agree Lily looks just like Vanessa when she was that age, though Vanessa had a softer look. Smoking will kill you, and aside from that and in the meantime…it especially isn’t friendly to very thin angular women with little body fat. She should take heed.
Exactly, Caro! It’s a shame about the smoking, hopefully she’ll get wise to that as she grows up. I see more people smoking in Europe than even here in the UK, and while I don’t like it at all, it does seem much more of a cultural thing there.
Johnny and Vanessa broke up amicably and the kids were very understanding. He didn’t throw Vanessa out, they were done for years prior to officially breaking up and moving on with other people.
Lily and Amber actually get along very well.
Johnny spends a lot of time with his kids when he’s not busy, he said he support Lily. He is not against her working in the industry.
Shosho aka Dania aka Willy Billy, STOP creating different names saying the same LIE defending Depp.
He LEFT Vanessa to run after 22 year old. They did NOT split amicably. Johnny CHEATED. Amber CHEATED. Lily and Amber have been seen together only 2 times. Last time was about 2 years ago on a shopping trip. Earlier this year, Johnny spent MONTHS away from his kids filming movies. After POTC5 wrapped, he went on a trip to Asia with Amber instead of going home to see his kids.
LOL, yah shaddup Johnny. He better be worried. Upsetting the family applecart when kids are in puberty can be traumatic for pre-teens. Dumping Vanessa for the amber horse will probably drive a permanent wedge between Lily and what’s-her-name. My bets are on Lily becoming more famous and more beautiful than Mrs. Depp.
Amy aka Guest, stop acting like your lies are the truth.
So it’s ok for you to be on every site hating on JD with different account but it’s not ok for his fans to defend him against unfair hatred?
Wait, so Johnny left Vanessa for a 22 year Amber who was actually 26 at the time? LOL!
They split amicably and that’s why they are on such good terms. The kids wouldn’t be so friendly with Amber if she was the reason behind their parents’ break up.
Johnny and Amber only started seeing each other after he broke up with Vanessa.
Amber and Lily spend a lot of time together, they don’t get pictured all the time.
If you really think the last time they saw each other was last year when they were pictured looking like they were having fun and shopping, then you are really delusional.
Johnny went to spend a month with his kids in LA back in March after he injured his hand on set. Of course you don’t mention that.
And that trip to Asia with Amber was their HONEYMOON. They’re allowed a time together. The kids don’t need him all the time.
I don’t have different accounts like you do.
Telling the TRUTH is NOT hating.
They are NOT on good terms. They split was NOT amicable.
There are NO PHOTOS to prove your claims.
Amber is only seen with those kids for attention and to respond to rumors. Last winter right after the break up rumors, her friends posted personal Thanksgiving pics.
Johnny is a LIAR. His own words and actions prove it. That’s why he gets criticism and deserves so.
He left Vanessa to chase Amber who was 21, 22 years old when she begged to be in Rum Diary.
He was not with his kids in March. He was in REHAB.
Broke his finger while arguing with Amber over the phone.
It’s really time for you to stop attacking everyone who speaks the clear truth when it comes to hypocrite midlife crisis Depp.
I think he has a right to worry, she just turned 16 and has been smoking for a while. She hangs out with older people and from the comments here and other place those people known drug users and she drinking. She gets involved in both modeling and acting, which is only going to magnify any issues she already has.
Johnny says he worried, but he doesn’t seem to be doing much about it and her mom is ether ok with it or she just like Johnny. She only going to gets one childhood and they could put a stop to it until she 18. Her parents connections will still be there to give her a acting and modeling career then.
Lily Rose wants to be an actress. She knows she’s not tall enough to be a model.
This. Two of her friends did the runway for Chanel while she was sitting there watching them. I think she wants to be a model but knows she don’t have the height so she’ll do acting instead.
Speaking of actresses, is it me or does she look like a young Keira Knightley?
thinking the same here
I think she has two great parents who seemed to give her a good foundation. She’ll be fine.
The smoking sickens me. It’s baffling that any parent would allow their underage child to smoke, especially knowing that it sets up lifelong addiction and health issues. I saw the pics of her smoking, out in the open, not trying to hide it at all. To me, that says she’s been at it awhile and gives no f*cks who sees. What a shame.
She’s done worse than smoking cigarettes…
What did she?
That’s a tragedy, if true.
French smoke everywhere all the time. It also seems women smoke more than men. I don’t know how they get to live so long.
You’d be in a café in Paris and see mothers blowing smoke right into their babies faces.
I’m French and maybe it used to be like that 10 years ago but not anymore. Mentality around smoking has drastically changed in France. Also I have never seen any mothers blowing up smoke into their babies face.
> Also I have never seen any mothers blowing up smoke into their babies face.
Well, I have (it was at one of the crepe places) and it took quite a bit of willpower for me not to stand up and start screaming at them. And it wasn’t just one, but a group of them with babies and toddlers. And I’ve seen it many times after that as well just out in public and cafes.
But I am glad if things are changing.
ok, this is really funny, bc when i lived there I used to tell people the same thing about “blowing smoke in babies’ faces” hahah … or at least, not seeming too worried about it. But when I went back in 2013 it was IMMENSELY different. French people were running. RUNNING. C’est ridicule.
I still have hope for the Jolie Pitt kids…..
I hope they grow up doing things outside the entertainment industry
She already drinks and smokes pot. Also, she hangs out with well known junkies like Miley and Sky Feirrera.
Miley Cyrus is a junky?????
Lily Rose wouldn’t be a blip on anyone’s modeling radar, if she didn’t have famous parents. I guess, that is just what happens to these celeb kids. Their parents are famous and they want to be famous, too. Like Ireland Baldwin, she is no model. Ireland is a nice looking, tall girl, but she is no Kim Bassinger.
This. She is obviously very pretty, but not model-like. Being a model is much more about standard physical characteristics than beauty itself. In her pictures she looks like a little girl dressing mommy’s clothes.
×10000. That girl is no model material. If her parents weren’t who they are, modeling agencies would laugh in her face.
Thank you. She is the spawn of a ‘celebrity’. Otherwise Chanel and K*nty Karl would not care.
I agree also. It would be really refreshing if these famous parents encouraged their kids to get an education first. I don’t understand how they cannot see that education should come before fame or career. They have money. They have privilege. They have looks. What they don’t have is an education. Or maybe it’s just intelligence that they lack.
I highly doubt she’s ever had to work for anything in her life, nor will she ever have to, so what else is she going to do but take advantage of her parents’ connections? What’s she going to do, learn a trade, go to college? She’ll follow what she knows, which is acting and modeling, because she’s grown up in such an isolated bubble of privilege.
Seriously. She looks like a little girl playing dress up. We’re supposed to take style cues from her? And yes, nepotism … or we would never have her inflicted upon us. As to her fast life – um yeah. You put her out in the front row of fashion shows and let her make movies by age 16 and the girl is gonna run as fast and hard as she can.
What a beautiful girl.
I’m in my early 20s, and sorry, but I have no respect for anyone around my age or younger that purposefully chooses to smoke. With all the information available to us now, it’s just plain stupid. We know for a fact that it causes cancer and a host of other health issues. We know it ruins your looks completely (you want to be a model, dearest?), and LiRo has her once-gorgeous father to look to as an example of what hard living can do to pretty people. To choose to smoke when you know exactly what the consequences are, none of them positive, it’s just ignorant. Come on girl. I know she’s young, but come. On.
She probably thinks it makes her look cool and like I said before it’s not surprising considering the company she keeps.
I believe most of them know the side-effects, but a lot of young actresses probably smoke to control their weight because staying thin is (unfortunately) a big deal in the industry. It’s interesting how many try and “hide” the habit too.
Div says:
“I believe most of them know the side effects…”
Yep, that’s what absolutely kills me. They know exactly what it does to you, but choose to do it anyway for the sake of short-term vanity.
It’s ignorant and it makes me mad.
@Shambles
It is ignorant but when a huge part of one’s livelihood depends on staying thin (which is just depressing as hell)…it is somewhat understandable imo.
And not only actresses. But then the trade off is bad teeth and skin when they hit 30 y.o.
Not surprised. I’m so cynical about celebrities that I even doubt if they really love their kids just the way they say.
Should think she’s rather more worried about him than he is about her. If he was a close relative of mine I would be witless with worry over his addiction/health issues.
I would never allow my underage teen to smoke, let alone hang out with adults and smoke pot and drink. I’m sorry but if you can’t handle your 16 year old you have failed as a parent. Something clearly went terribly wrong, maybe you were trying to be friends with your child instead of being a parent, or maybe you feel guilty because you divorced/separated and you allow your kid to do anything he/she wants….I don’t know, but clearly something is not right.
I have seen her instagram and she hangs out with known drug users and much older people in their late twenties.
Those pics of her smoking cigs are disturbing visually, she looks like a child and even more disturbing is her phone cover with goofy and a cig dangling out of her mouth, it looks messed up tbh.
Her eyes also always look sad and sometimes I find her looks creepy…I feel a bit bad saying that but her almost black eyes and contrast with her skin and hair, although lovely, just can look a bit creepy sometimes. And btw, I think she looks more like Johnny than Vanessa.
Total control over a teen is hard, so I respectfully disagree that if you dont have it, you’ve failed as a parent. Teens find ways to work around parents. Or they get their revenge later.
Eh, I disagree. No one is saying put ’em on a leash or throw them in a cage. There are ways to gain their respect and listen to you without feeling the need to “rebel”. It starts when they are toddlers and goes from there.
He’s right to be worried, she’s playing Natalie Portman’s sister in a new movie and she was the “star” in the audience of the Chanel show last night, photos all over the daily fail, along with her mother who takes her along and seems to be the force behind this modelling career of Lily’s.
I wonder if it’s a form of payback to Depp, he’s always been super protective of his kids and he furiously tried to keep them out of the spotlight. And then suddenly he and Vanessa split and his daughter is all over the place…
I wouldn’t say that she’s the force behind it – more like a mother who’s being there and supportive. Vanessa modeled in her early days as well and likely goes along to make sure her daughter is ok. And Lily is not a child any more – she’s a teenager who wants to follow in her parents footsteps. She’s not the first and won’t be the last, good luck to her i say and here’s hoping she turns out like Zoe Kravitz.
Well he himself seems to be the force behind her “acting career” given that she has a part alongside him in the Kevin Smith movie. Guess they are both pushing her into the spotlight.
Pot meet kettle.
Well at least she doesn’t aspire to be a “musician” like her parents.
Lily, you may look gorgeous now but see what smoking has done to your Mom and Dad – they look like they are about Keith Richards’ age. That smoking habit will haunt you in your late 30s even with improved lifestyle and dermatologist’s intervention.
Re: That last picture of the family on the escalator
My friends and I have a saying, “only one fedora per crew.” Now grant it, I know they are trying to be inconspicuous, but if I saw that in the airport, my attention would be drawn to the hatted family.
The role of a father in his daughters life is crucial. Look at his behavior during the last several years as she approached becoming a teenager. This is what happens Johnny. Hope it was worth it.
And what happened, exactly? She has a very bright future ahead of her.
Her mother left school at 16 to pursue her career. Surely, she wouldn’t have a problem with her daughter doing the same? Johnny has been working since he was very young too,..
BUT.
If she wants to become an actress, I predict MAJOR fights in Depp’s household, that he’s helping his daughter more than his wife! Who wants a career as an actress too! I just see it, lol )) Especialy if Lily Rose turns out to have some talent, boy, I don’t envy Johnny.
If she is in a film with Depp it seems like he encouraged it. She obviously got the part because of her dad.
Vanessa is using her to keep herself relevant. That’s why she started to bring her to fashion shows. Kevin Smith told he first asked to Vanessa about a film project with Lily. And no one cares about Vanessa, if it’s not to talk about her daughter
That’s why Johnny’s stunned by it. Lily went to school and was a normal teen until the past year or so when living mostly with him. Then he should move to Australia to work in Pirates, Lily remained under the care of her mother and next thing Johnny knows is her daughter face of Chanel, leaving the school and working in Paris
c’est la vie
Well instead of trying to recapture his youth and running drunk around with a young wife who could be his daughter, maybe Johnny should try to be a FATHER. It’s clear where his priorities are…
His wife is almost 30, and he’s not running around drunk with her or trying to capture his youth or anything. He’s just living his life. He spends a lot of time with his kids when he’s not working and he even drops Lily off to school sometimes. He was pictured dropping her off to school last year.
It’s indeed clear where his priorities are, he obviously cares so much about his daughter.
Shosho aka Dania aka Willy Billy, you cannot ignore him being drunk and out of it in recent years. Dropping your kid off to school once a year doesn’t make you a great father.
Amy aka Guest, he IS a great father, and what makes you think he drops Lily off to school once a year? He’s been spotted and pictured inside her school a lot.
He wouldn’t be worried but still supportive of her if he wasn’t a FATHER to her.
LOL sure….a great father is one who goes months without seeing his kids…right? Johnny is not worried about anything but himself
No @, the kids mostly lived with Vanessa since the split, they even stay at her house and not with Johnny when Vanessa’s travelling to work in France or elsewhere.
Truth.
Well it was right around this age Vanessa released her first single “Jojo le taxi” which was her first single so I think it is natural for Lily to pursue some kind of acting/modeling career. She is the spitting image of Vanessa at that age if you look at younger pictures of Vanessa when she was 16! Minus the gap teeth though Vanessa didn’t seem to get those until later in life.
Johnny is a hot mess right now, but he has been a devoted father.
In 2007 Lily Rose contracted a such a severe case of e Coli that her kidneys shut down. Her concondition was dire. Johnny stayed with Lily Rose throughout the whole ordeal. He wouldn’t return to filming Sweeney Todd until she recovered. Both he and Vanessa were by her side.
I can side eye many things about him. But going through something like this with a such a young child is life changing. It also says a lot about him and Vanessa as parents.
I remember that, she almost died. What parent WOULD leave their kid at death’s door to go back to work on a movie set? Slow clap for Johnny…
I do think 16 is too young to have facial fillers. That top lip has been seriously done. The bottom one may or may not have been.
I do think he’s s very loving father and like most good father worries for his kids.
But seeing his daughters pic then seeing amber with him looks really gross, amber looks like she could be old enough to be his daughter, ewwww.
Lily rose has incredible bone structure.
Eh. He’s the one he should be worried about. She looks pretty normal, really, and her mom is probably pretty solid, which is important when your father figure wants to be 20 again.
So he should be saying ‘I’m worried about myself!’ when he’s asked what he thinks about his daughter’s hot career?
He looks pretty normal, really! He’s fine. They are all fine. How exactly does he want to be 20 again? He dresses older than his age and refers to himself as an old man.
You are delusional! He looks very bloated from all the alcohol abuse. Rumors have it he is abusing more than alcohol. How do you know they are “fine”? Clearly things are not well in his personal life. Johnny has a dead look behind his eyes.