The Edward Scissorhands actor went on to explain how his mother Betty Sue Depp, who passed away in 2016, “liked to escape from reality from time to time and learnt how to live in a miserable state.”
“So, I’m not surprised,” he continued, “I allowed myself to experience something—in some little psychological sphere—to help understand what it was like between my parents. I had to understand how my father dealt with it. So, it would be dumb for me to carry any bitterness.”
He added, “Eternal hatred? You want to put curses on someone? No. I know who I am, what that was and, look, it was a learning experience.”
A learning experience that ultimately cost the actor millions of dollars and saw the pair viciously battle it out in court. Following Depp and Heard’s divorce in 2016, Heard alleged the actor had been verbally and physically abusive, and a settlement was reached within the year that said Depp would pay her $7 million.
