If you pick up the November issue of British GQ, Johnny Depp’s very famous face stares back at you. The phrase WORLD EXCLUSIVE is written underneath it, in self-aggrandising all caps highlighted in red. Then: JOHNNY DEPP. An outlaw talks. Then, in chummy “who else but this guy?!” parentheses: And talks and talks… Then four summarising words: The divorce. The violence. The excess. The vengeance.
This all obliquely refers to the fact that over the last two and a half years, Johnny Depp has become a deeply controversial figure in Hollywood. That’s because in May 2016, Johnny Depp was accused of assaulting his then-wife Amber Heard, when Heard filed for a temporary restraining order on Depp.
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