Winona Ryder has reflected on the aftermath of her relationship with Johnny Depp and revealed her struggles to fend for herself after their breakup in 1993.
Stranger Things star Ryder was in a relationship with Depp between 1989 and 1993 and was engaged to the star for three years. After their split, Depp’s “Winona forever” tattoo was edited to read “Wino forever.”
After defending the Pirates Of The Caribbean star at his 2020 libel trial in the UK, the 1990s period following their breakup is now branded as her Girl, Interrupted ‘real life’, referencing the 1999 film that she produced and starred in About A Young Woman in a Mental Hospital, alongside Angelina Jolie.
In a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she hinted that her break-up with Depp, intertwined with hard-core Hollywood culture, turned her life into a darker turn.
Ryder – who called “an incredible therapist” for encouraging the actress to be gentler to a younger version of herself to heal – recalled playing a character who was eventually tortured in a Chilean prison in 1994, the film The House. of the Spirits, explaining: ‘I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face’ [from the film], and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. “Would you treat this girl the way you treat yourself?”
“I remember looking at myself and saying, ‘This is what I’m doing to myself inside.” Because I just wasn’t taking care of myself.”
The actress said her The Age of Innocence co-star Michelle Pfeiffer was a big support when she stepped into the spotlight, saying, “I remember Michelle saying, ‘This will pass.’ But I couldn’t hear it.
‘I never talked about it. There is a part of me that is very private. I have such, like, a place in my heart for those days. But for someone who is younger and grew up with social media, it’s hard to describe.’
Ryder previously spoke about her relationship with Depp in 2020, after the actor sued the publisher of The Sun News Group Newspapers (NGN) over an April 2018 column by The Sun’s then-executive editor Dan Wootton, which referred the actor to a “wife beater.” “Following domestic violence allegations from ex-wife Amber Heard.
Depp ultimately lost the case, in which Justice Nicol found that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence did indeed take place. He won a separate libel lawsuit against Heard in the United States last month.
In a statement filed ahead of the 2020 trial, Ryder said she only knows Depp as an “incredibly loving, extremely caring man.”
Her statement read: “I knew Johnny very well years ago. We were together as a couple for four years, and I considered him my best friend and family so close to me.
“I consider our relationship to be one of the most important relationships of my life.”
The Edward Scissorhands actress added: ‘I know him really and honestly only as a really good man – an incredibly loving, extremely caring man who was so very protective of me and the people he loves, and I felt so whole very safe with him. †
“I don’t want to call anyone a liar, but from my experience with Johnny, it’s impossible to believe such horrific accusations are true. I find it extremely shocking to know him as I know him.’
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