Jennifer Grey and Johnny Depp’s blind date was the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star’s doing, so she wasn’t expecting much to come out of it. “We ate, talked, drank Jack Daniel’s, laughed our asses off, took cigarette breaks midcourse,” she wrote in her 2022 memoir “Out of the Corner” (via the Independent). “He was so ridiculously beautiful. And surprisingly open, funny, quirky and sweet.”
Grey immediately believed Depp was the solution to all her troubles. “I just thought it was God rescuing me from one bad situation and just lovingly plopping me into a Johnny Depp soufflé,” the “Dirty Dancing” star said on “The Drew Barrymore Show.” Grey had no hesitations when Depp proposed two weeks after their first date. They moved in together and adopted Lulu, a Pekinese-poodle. “She was our practice baby and someone to keep me company when Johnny was out of town,” she wrote.
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Everything was great in paradise. Until it wasn’t. Depp, who was living between Los Angeles and Vancouver then, began to exhibit behaviors Grey had no interest in putting up with. “[He] had begun more and more regularly to be getting into trouble: fights in bars, skirmishes with cops,” she wrote. And he also started to give her a hard time about whom she met or talked to. “When he did come home, he’d be crazy jealous and paranoid about what I’d been up to while he was gone.” By 1989, the romance had ended.
