Johnny Depp Reveals Shocking Childhood Abuse: The Unseen Battle Behind the Fame
At the time, Depp told the jury that his mother “was very unpredictable.
“She could become quite violent and she was quite violent, and she was quite cruel,” Depp said.
But most damaging, the actor claimed, was the verbal ab*se
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Depp went on to say that his mother was indiscriminate in her methods.
“And though there was physical abuse, certainly, which could be in the form of an ashtray being flung at you, hitting you in the head, or you’d get beat with a high-heel shoe or a telephone or whatever’s handy,” he said.
But the mistreatment went beyond physical. “The verbal abuse, the psychological abuse, was almost worse than the beatings.”
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“The beatings were just physical pain. The physical pain, you learn to deal with. You learn to accept it. You learn to deal with it,” he noted.
Depp blames Palmer for his substance overuse issues
He blamed his substance ab*se issues—which became a talking point at the trial—on his unpleasant childhood, claiming that he started out pinching his mother’s nerve medication from the age of 11 “to escape feeling so much”.
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Although the dr*gs varied, the trend continued into his adulthood.
He claimed that it was never for “a party effect” but rather “for trying to numb the things inside that can plague someone whose experienced trauma.”
“[It’s] a pretty young age to do that, I can’t say that I’m proud of admitting to that but I have to say that I knew not what else to do,” he added.
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