Johnny Depp reflected on parenthood and raising his two children with his ex-girlfriend in a recent interview.
Depp spoke to The Sunday Times in a story published June 21, sharing rare details about parenting his two children, daughter Lily-Rose and son Jack, whom he shares with his ex-girlfriend of more than a decade, actress and singer Vanessa Paradis.
At one point during the interview, Depp showed off a portrait he painted of his daughter when she was a child. He explained, “I never finished it. She was ten then, and 25 now.”
“Years get away from us, don’t they?” Depp added, before sharing, “I’m of the empty-nest syndrome.”
When asked if he missed having his children around the house, Depp explained, “Oh man, my kids growing up in the south of France in their youth? I was Papa. I cannot tell you how much I loved being Papa.”
However, after the family moved to Los Angeles, Depp noted, “Then, suddenly, Papa was out the window. I was Dad. But Papa was awesome and I’m getting old enough for Papa to possibly come back.”
Depp was also asked where he considered home, with the actor confessing, “Truly, the first time I felt I had a home was the place in the south of France where Vanessa and I raised the kiddies. That’s the only place that ever felt like home.”
As for the advice that he has given his daughter Lily-Rose, who has recently starred in “The Idol” and “Nosferatu,” about her career, Depp noted, “Sometimes kids say to me, ‘I want to be an actor, what’s your advice?’ And I say, ‘Don’t be!’”
“I know what’s coming for them,” he explained. “I was chucked on that road and the only advice that I can give is, ‘Don’t allow anyone to make you something you are not.’ They’ll want you to be a poster boy and it’s tempting — a lot of money. And if that’s the direction you want? Go for it. But don’t let anybody choose for you.”
As Lily-Rose embarked on her own acting career, following in the footsteps of both of her parents, she acknowledged during a November 2022 interview with Elle that figuring out how to be famous as an adult was “a weird thing to navigate.”
“It’s different experiencing it firsthand rather than by proxy,” she explained, referring to her parents’ fame. “I guess it’s something that I’ve had to make my own way with.”
Lily-Rose said that growing up, both of her parents “protected” her and her brother “as much as possible,” noting, “I know my childhood didn’t look like everybody’s childhood, and it’s a very particular thing to deal with, but it’s also the only thing that I know.”
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