Johnny Depp and Brigitte Macron were spotted mingling at Christian Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show on Wednesday.
The Hollywood star, 62, is enjoying a quieter life following a tumultuous five years dominated by his explosive legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard.
As he makes a slow return to the spotlight, Johnny attended the French luxury brand’s catwalk in the capital.
He cut a stylish figure in a grey blazer layered over a shirt and blue jeans.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star finished off his look with a grey top hat and shielded his eyes with a stylish pair of sunglasses.
Meanwhile, Brigitte, 72, looked chic in a blue blazer and jeans that matched her Lady Dior bag.
Johnny Depp and Brigitte Macron were spotted mingling at Christian Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show on Wednesday
The pair appeared in good spirits as they nestled together for a snap while sitting front row of the show.
Johnny famously lost the libel action which he brought at the UK High Court in 2020, after being called a ‘wife beater’, but successfully brought a libel action against Heard in a US court in 2022.
But despite the latter result, his reputation took a battering with his stock as one of the world’s leading actors dramatically falling amid sensational headlines of domestic abuse, sexual violence, drug taking and excessive drinking.
The whole ordeal with Amber threatened his entire career as he was dropped from a star role in the Harry Potter spin-off film series ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,’ as Hollywood turned its back on him.
He was also dropped by Disney in his role as Captain Jack Sparrow from the sixth edition of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’
Johnny recently admitted in a media interview: ‘I was shunned, dumped, booted, deep-sixed, cancelled, however you want to define it.’
Referring to the trials, he said: ‘I fought it because had I not then I wouldn’t have been me.
‘Would I rather have not gone through that? Of course.
As he makes a slow return to the spotlight, Johnny attended the French luxury brand’s catwalk in the capital
He cut a stylish figure in a grey blazer layered over a shirt and blue jeans
Johnny pictured with Brigitte and Bernard Amault
‘But I learned more than I ever dreamed I could.’
As for Brigitte, she has also not had the easiest time in the public eye, having suffered scrutiny for her relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron since 2007.
Emmanuel was 15 when he fell in love with the then-married Brigitte Auzière, 25 years his senior.
She was his drama teacher at the Catholic Providence school in Amiens, in northern France, and her daughter, Laurence, was Macron’s classmate.
Their romance blossomed and caused a scandal in the province. Macron’s parents then sent him to Paris to go to another school, but his desire to be with his teacher and pursuit of her remained.
She said she told herself that, once Emmanuel was in Paris, he would ‘fall in love with someone his [own] age’, but that didn’t happen.
Johnny famously lost the libel action which he brought at the UK High Court in 2020, after being called a ‘wife beater’, but successfully brought a libel action against Heard in a US court in 2022 (Depp gestures to spectators in court after closing arguments at the Depp vs Heard trial)
Depp was on the verge of cancellation in 2018 when rumors of him physically abusing his then-wife Amber Heard sensationally flooded airwaves (Amber Heard takes the stand during the Depp vs Heard defamation trial in Fairfax County, Virginia in 2022)
Brigitte gave up her job, but said the ‘only obstacles’ were her children, as she didn’t want to ‘wreck their lives’.
‘That lasted ten years, the time to put them on the rails. You can imagine what they were hearing. But I didn’t want to miss out on my life,’ she said.
Her son is three years older than Macron and her daughters, now aged 46 and 39, are of similar age to her second husband.
She also added that she doesn’t know what her parents would have said about her marriage to her former student, but noted that her siblings would sometimes joke about the gossip surrounding her and Macron’s relationship.
She finally married Macron – a civil servant in his late twenties at the time – in 2007, after divorcing her estranged husband André-Louis Auzière the year before.
As for Brigitte, she has also not had the easiest time in the public eye, having suffered scrutiny for her relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron since 2007
The First Lady gave a little more insight into the Macrons’ married life, which she usually remains tight-lipped about apart from mentioning the difficulties in the early years of their relationship were.
Despite already being married for 16 years, Brigitte said her husband still manages to surprise and amaze her with his impressive memory and intelligence.
‘I had many brilliant pupils and none had his capability.
‘I have always admired him,’ she explained.
