Meet Lily-Rose Depp, Johnny Depp’s daughter who he ‘stood up for’ during his trial with Amber Heard: the 23-year-old Chanel model and actress dated Timothée Chalamet and her mum is Vanessa Paradis
- The Pirates of the Caribbean star’s daughter, and sister to Jack Depp, is all grown up, modelling for Chanel and starring in films like The King, Voyagers, Wolf and The Governesses
- But it’s not been all glitz and glamour for the rising star, who suffered kidney failure as a child and has opened up about her anorexia struggles in the past
In the closing argument, Johnny’s lawyer Benjamin Chew noted that the case was “about the truth about what really happened” and about showing his two children with ex-girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, daughter Lily-Rose and son Jack, that “the truth is worth fighting for”. Per Stylecaster, Johnny himself previously said that, “I felt it my responsibility to stand up, not only for myself in that instance, but stand up for my children.”
Sadly, both Lily-Rose and Jack have received hate comments for their decisions to stay relatively silent during the mudslinging soap opera.
She suffered from kidney failure
In 2007, young Lily-Rose had a brush with death. The then seven-year-old was hospitalised for nine days due to kidney failure caused by E coli food poisoning. After the “darkest period of his life” was over, as Johnny said during his interview on The Graham Norton Show, he donated US$2 million to the Great Ormond Street Hospital the following year. “They told us her kidneys had shut down and that she would be lucky to survive. For nine days, we sat by her bed, and refused to move until she began to pull through,” he said in 2015 recalling the harrowing time.
She battled anorexia
Lily-Rose also endured anorexia as a child. She spoke about her fight with the eating disorder for the first time in 2016. In an interview, she admitted she was disturbed by critical comments about her looks on Instagram. “It saddens me because I was younger and it was hard to get out of it. Everyone who has been confronted with this disease knows how difficult it is to come back from it. I have been trying to gain weight for a long time and I am very proud of my progress,” she told Elle France.