Johnny Depp’s relationship with longtime love Vanessa Paradis is on the rocks, a report claims, with some saying that the couple of nearly 14 years may already have split.
Multiple sources tell People that Depp and Paradis are living highly separate lives, an allegation that appears to hold some plausibility as it has been more than a year since Depp and Paradis have been photographed on a red carpet together. Depp attended the Golden Globes on Sunday night solo, skipping out on interviews. He also attended the premieres of his movies “The Rum Diary” and “The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” alone.
The magazine charges that Paradis’ absence at the Parisian premiere of “The Rum Diary” was especially peculiar, as she was reported to be in the city at the time, staying at a different hotel than Depp.
“She went instead to a concert that night,” a source said. “It was weird and pretty clear: You’re in town and don’t go to the premiere of your husband’s film?”
While Depp and Paradis never married, they do have two children together. Sources say that the two are currently in Los Angeles, far from their home base in the French village of Plan-de-la-Tour, but that they are living in separate houses. The couple reportedly owns multiples properties there.
Another source tells People, “My sense is that this is a couple which hasn’t existed for two years.”
Radar Online also reported recently that Depp and Paradis were having troubles.
“Johnny is so talented at acting, but he doesn’t seem able to hide how badly things are going right now,” a source alleged to the website. “Johnny isn’t handling anything well right now. People around him are worried. He and Vanessa seem so fractured right now … Their relationship is heading toward the end.”
The source furthered that Depp had reached out to lawyers, potentially to discuss a parting.
However, Depp and Paradis have seemed to be in a good place as of late. The pair recorded a song together in November, a tribute to French crooner Serge Gainsbourg. The two had also publicly discussed making their first film together, “My American Lover,” a biopic about French feminist Simone De Beauvour.
While promoting “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” in May, Depp was asked why he and Paradis had never married.
“As one of presidents once said, ‘It if ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ We just haven’t done the big public vow thing,” he told OK! magazine. “It doesn’t seem necessary for us. Others may want to go down that road — we don’t.”