Johnny Depp: Amber Heard Files for Divorce ... On Heels of His Mom"s Death
Amber Heard has filed for divorce from Johnny Depp after about 15 months of marriage, People confirmed on Wednesday.
TMZ first reported the news, alleging that Heard filed a divorce petition on Monday, citing irreconcilable differences.
Depp and Heard, who met while filming 2011s The Rum Diary, married in a private Los Angeles ceremony in February 2015. Days after, they celebrated with a slightly larger ceremony on Depps private island in the Bahamas.
At the time, People reported that only a few dozen of their closest family and friends look[ed] on as they swapped vows under a white marquee decorated with flowers on the idyllic beach of Little Hall"s Pond Cay.
The couple first confirmed their relationship after Depp split with his partner of 14 years, French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has one daughter, Lily-Rose, and one son, Jack.
Speaking to E! last year, Depp reveals what first drew him to Heard.
We connect on a lot of levels but the first things that really got me was she"s an aficionado of the blues, the actor revealed. I would play a song, some old obscure blues song, and she knew what it was.
She"s very very literate,he added. She"s a voracious reader as I have been, so we connected on that as well and she"s kind of brilliant and beautiful.
Last June, while promoting Magic Mike 2, Heard opened up about the marriage, telling The Times of London, I never thought I would get married. But Ive always loved who Ive loved.
Heard also spoke about the transition from being Depp"s girlfriend to his wife, telling Elle, Nothing is a dramatic change. We"ve been together for a long time now, so it"s been a fairly organic process. . .I have a fiercely independent spirit.
The thing that really scares me is the potential of losing my freedom,she added to the magazine. I never want for my life to lose the ability to transverse the world, with freedom and ease.
Entertainment Tonight claims this is not the first personal setback for Depp this month. The actor"s beloved mother, Betty Sue, is said to have died on Friday at 82 after battling a long illness. The actor has a tattoo of his mother"s name inside a heart on his inner arm.
News of the separation also follows the couple"s bizarre saga with Australia"s Minister of Agriculture, which began after Heard failed to declare the couple"s two teacup-sized dogs at customs upon entering the country. Presumably as part of some kind of court agreement, the couple appeared in an awkward P.S.A., during which they apologized for not declaring their pets, and stiffly urged others to not make the same mistake they did.
On Monday evening, Depp appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in seemingly good spirits.
The appearance was one of several planned this week for Depp to promote Alice Through the Looking Glass, which opens in theaters this Friday.
Representatives for the couple did not immediately respond to VF.com requests.
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/johnny-depp-amber-heard-divorce
