Teen Johnny Depp Was Abandoned By ‘Mean’ Mom, Court Documents Claim

Johnny Depp has had a tough childhood. With his mom being a single mother to four kids, life was never easy. But according to some newly unearthed court documents, it appears that 15-year-old Depp was abandoned by his mom.

These papers were uncovered by Hollywood fixer Paul Barresi when he was doing research work for the new Discovery+ series “Johnny Depp V Amber Heard.” The documents, which had been buried in court archives, are divorce papers between Depp’s parents Betty Sue Depp and John Depp.

The couple got divorced in 1978, at the time the “Pirates Of The Caribbean" star was just 15. The papers show that Depp was "emancipated and self-supporting."

The divorce document, signed in 1981, states, “The wife hereby acknowledges that the parties’ minor child … John C. Depp II is fully emancipated and self-supporting.”

In his research, Barresi said, “He said since age 11, he’s taken all manner of substances, including marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, prescription painkillers, opiates and magic mushrooms. His drug use, he said, was a way to escape family problems."

“He struggled to find gigs in a garage band and peddled ink pens working part-time as a telemarketer," he added.

“Needless to say, at age 17, Johnny was hardly financially self-sufficient, and far from being emancipated. As far as I am concerned, his mother disowned him at a time when he unquestionably needed her most," Baressi explained.

Baressi emphasized that "there is no court record of him ever having been legally emancipated.”

Back in 2018, two years after his mother passed away of a long-going illness, Depp told Rolling Stone: “My mom was born in a f****ing holler in eastern Kentucky … Her poor f****ing ass was on phenobarbital at 12.”

Depp also talked about his father being mostly absent from their lives and it was his mother who raised him and his siblings.

“Yeah, there were irrational beatings,” Depp said. “Maybe it’s an ashtray coming your way. Maybe you’re gonna get clunked with the phone. It was a ghost house — no one talked. I don’t think there ever was a way I thought about people, especially women, other than ‘I can fix them,’” the actor added.

“Betty Sue, I worshipped her, but she could be a real b**ch on wheels,” Depp concluded.

Even at her funeral in 2016, Depp called his mother the "meanest human being."