Jennifer Grey Says Johnny Depp Was ‘Paranoid’ During Engagement

A tumultuous romance. Jennifer Grey opened up about her challenging romance with Johnny Depp in her future memoir, Out of the Corner, beginning with an rigorous blind day.

“We ate, talked, drank Jack Daniel’s, laughed our asses off, took cigarette breaks midcourse. He was so ridiculously stunning. And amazingly open up, amusing, quirky and sweet,” the Filthy Dancing star, 62, wrote, in accordance to an excerpt published in The Unbiased on Sunday, May well 1. The former pair have been set up on a blind date by Grey’s agent in 1989, soon after Depp, now 58, expressed that he had a “massive crush” on her.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star popped the problem after just two months of relationship and he and Gray adopted a Pekingese-poodle pet named Lulu. “She was our observe infant and a person to keep me enterprise when Johnny was out of town,” the Ferris Bueller’s Working day Off star wrote in her book. “Johnny was commuting every single 7 days again and forth from Vancouver.”

Even so, not lengthy into their relationship, Gray claimed the Edward Scissorhands star “had started extra and extra consistently to be obtaining into difficulty: [getting into] fights in bars, skirmishes with cops.”

She continued: “He’d commenced lacking his flights dwelling to LA owning overslept or, when he did occur house, he’d be insane jealous and paranoid about what I’d been up to whilst he was long gone. I attributed his unwell mood and unhappiness to him feeling miserable and powerless to get off [the TV series] 21 Jump Avenue.”

Just just before her 29th birthday, the Pink Dawn actress finished her engagement to Depp soon after he still left for a meeting and did not come back again as section of what she described as a “self-imposed streak of impulsive, destructive selection-earning.” Depp subsequently moved on with Winona Ryder — who happened to be Grey’s neighbor at the time. “[It was] the common nightmare of experience replaced, like you’d never happened, but on steroids,” she wrote.

Depp has not commented on Grey’s reserve. He is at this time engaged in a public defamation match from his ex-wife, Amber Listened to, as the final result of a December 2018 op-ed in which the Aquaman star claimed that she was a survivor of domestic abuse.

Gray also moved on and married actor Clark Gregg in July 2001. The few, who share daughter Stella, 20, introduced in July 2020 that they were being contacting it quits right after nearly 20 many years of marriage. “After 19 years together, we separated in January, recognizing we’d constantly be a household who loves, values and cares for each and every other,” the pair wrote via a joint Instagram assertion at the time. “We a short while ago produced the tough decision to divorce, but we continue to be shut and are deeply grateful for the lifestyle we have shared and the superb daughter we’ve raised. P.S. Completely crying as we put up this.”

Despite their break up, the Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. alum, 59, shared his assist for Gray and her e-book on social media forward of its publication. “4 terms u in no way want to listen to [from] ur ex: ‘I’m crafting a memoir,’” Gregg jokingly tweeted in February. “So think me when I say this reserve is great. It is (like J) intelligent fearless & amusing af & [doesn’t] pull punches.”

Out of the Corner was released on Tuesday, Could 3.