Johnny Depp’s ex-bandmate and former friend is taking the brunt of Johnny Depp’s slow career progress and allegations about substance abuse on Amber Heard, his ex-wife.
In a clip for the new Discovery+ documentary Johnny Vs Amber that was shared by LADbible, musician Bill ‘Beano’ Hanti claims that Heard ‘just saw [Depp]he was insinuating herself into her life.
Hanti was 58 years old and a member of The Kids. After his success with 1984’s A Nightmare On El Street, Hanti switched to acting.
Blame: Johnny Depp’s former guitarist Bill Hanti claimed in Discovery+’s documentary Johnny Vs Amber, that Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard destroyed his career and caused him to drink and use drugs. They were seen together in 2011.
Hanti suggests that Hanti used Hanti’s starring role in The Rum Diary 2011 with Depp to make contact with him.
He said that she was offered the role in the film, and that she actually worked the movie, although he also admitted that he had never met the actress.
He was concerned about Depp’s 35-year age difference with Heard and blamed Depp for having “ruined” the Pirates Of The Caribbean actress’s life.
“I understand she is half her age. I get it. OK, John, she’s 25. I get it. Do not marry her. It’s not necessary to marry her. Hanti says, “You’re Johnny Depp.”
Hanti raised concerns about Heard’s age, which he said was more than twenty years older than Depp. He also suggested that Hanti used Depp’s star role in The Rum Diaries 2011, to become close to Depp.
“Ruined his whole life. It totally f***ed his career over, cost him his friends, part of his family,’ he continued.
“She got into John’s head, and drove him insane to the point that he started drinking and using drugs to excess.
DailyMail.com reached out for comments to Depp and Heard representatives.
Hanti was also asked about Depp’s former partner Vanessa Paradis. He had been with her from 1998 to the 2012 split.
‘He had something special with Vanessa and he f***ed it up,’ he said, adding that she was a ‘beautiful soul’ and a ‘beautiful lady.’
They have two children together, Lily-Rose Depp (22 years old) and Jack Depp (19 yearold).
Hanti pointed fingers at John, claiming that she “got inside John’s brain and made him completely insane to the point that he was using and drugging to the point of madness.” Heard Hanti with Bianca Butti, July 2020, London
Exes. Hanti also spoke out about Depp’s ex-partner Vanessa Paradis. He was together with her from 1998 to the split in 2012. ‘He had something special with Vanessa and he f***ed it up,’ he said; pictured in 1999
Johnny Vs Amber, a two-part television series about Johnny and Amber, is divided in half. Each actor has their own perspective in each episode.
‘The series provides an in-depth insight into the epic battle that powered #JusticeforJohnnyDepp and #IStandWithYouAmberHeard fan campaigns and the very public High Court case that gripped us all,’ explained Clare Laycock, senior VP for planning and insights and head of entertainment at Discovery, in a statement to Variety.
Heard and Depp shot home videos for the series, which will give a personal picture of their turbulent final days together.
After Paradis’ 2012 divorce, Edward Scissorhands Star Heard began to date Heard. They were married in 2015. The couple then confirmed their split in May 2016. The couple divorced in 2017.
Heard accused Depp of domestic violence and Depp filed a lawsuit against The Sun in 2018, after the newspaper called him a ‘wifebeater’ to address Heard’s allegations.
He called Aquaman Star’s claims untrue, but she repeated them in court during the Libel Trial.
Legal loss: Depp was dismissed from a lawsuit against The Sun in October 2020 after a judge ruled that the newspaper’s portrayal of Depp as a “wife beater” was “substantially true”. Heard and Depp in LA in 2016.
In court, she said that her husband called me names whenever I tried to dress in sexy clothes. ‘He started saying things like, “Well, I’m going to have to watch you get raped” and “I hope you get railed by a bunch of f***ing fellas. Sometimes he used racial epithets about the men I would be — or deserved to be — assaulted by,’ she said.
“Some of the incidents were so serious that I was afraid he would kill me either inadvertently or by simply losing control and taking too much.
The Suns’ description of Depp being a ‘wifebeater’ by a judge in October 2020 was found to be substantially accurate. Depp, however, has asked for an appeal.
In a separate lawsuit he brought against Depp, he also claimed Heard was an abusive partner in their relationship.
“She punched and kicked me. His statement said, “She also repeatedly and continually threw objects in my body and into my head, including soda cans heavy, hot burning candles, TV remote controls and paint thinner containers, which seriously injured me.”
His side: Depp has also claimed that Heard was an abuser in the relationship in a separate defamation lawsuit that he filed against her; pictured in February 2020 in Berlin