Johnny Depp denies beating his ex-wife Amber Heard — saying in a new interview that the allegations have turned him from “Cinderella to Quasimodo” in Hollywood.
“The thing that hurt me is being presented as something that you’re really as far away from as you could possibly get,” Depp, 55, told British GQ for its November edition. “To harm someone you love? No, it didn’t, it couldn’t even sound like me,” he said.
Heard, 32, filed for divorce in May 2016, 15 months after the couple wed, citing “irreconcilable differences.” She accused Depp of being a drunken, paranoid, wine-bottle-flinging wife-beater.
In his first interview about the relationship, Depp denied the allegations.
“Twenty-five feet away from her, how the f–k am I going to hit her? Which, by the way, is the last thing I would’ve done. I might look stupid, but I ain’t f–king stupid,” he said.
The couple settled their divorce case in January 2017, with Depp agreeing to pay around $7 million.
Since the much-publicized abuse claims, Depp said people just don’t see him the same way and act as if he has he’s turned into a monster.
“I could feel people look at me differently,” he said. “I know I was never going to be Cinderella … but it felt like within a very, very short period of time that suddenly this version — for lack of a better word — of Cinderella had been immediately turned into the beast. He’s Quasimodo.”
He worries what his children will think.
“I do this s–t for my kids, man. How could someone, anyone, come out with something like that against someone, when there’s no truth to it whatsoever?” he said.
“I’m sure it wasn’t easy for my 14-year-old boy to go to school, you know what I mean? With people going, ‘Hey, look at this magazine, man. What, your dad beats up chicks or something?’ Why did he have to go through that? Why did my daughter have to go through that?”
Depp insisted that the truth “will come out” and that his reputation as a Hollywood good guy will be restored.