Johnny Depp Shares How He Discussed Marijuana Use With Lily-Rose As A ‘Responsible Parent’

Johnny Depp shared in the High Court how he discussed marijuana use with his daughter Lily-Rose when she was just a teenager.

The “Pirates of The Caribbean” star’s drug use is one of the issues being tackled in his libel case against The Sun. During the first hearing, Depp shared how he discussed marijuana use with his then-teenage daughter Lily-Rose. He denied that he encouraged his child to use marijuana but admitted that he was “involved” in the decision, the Evening Standard reported.

“My daughter was 13 years old and as we all know at 11, 12, and 13 years old when you go to a high school party you are approached by people who will want to give you drink because they are drinking at 12 and 13, doing cocaine at 12 and 13, and smoking marijuana at 12 and 13, doing ecstasy and doing many many drugs,” Depp shared.

“My daughter was at a party and someone passed the joint to her. She was just 12 and she said she didn’t know what to do. I said, ‘listen sweetheart, if you are at a party and someone hands you the joint, take the joint from the person and pass it to the next person. Please don’t experiment with drugs with people you don’t know.’”

Depp further said that he feared that the drugs could be laced with other substances. So he encouraged Lily-Rose to approach him instead if she wanted to try it for the first time. The celebrity dad said he was concerned for his daughter’s safety and would rather have her do it with him than with people she didn’t know.

“‘Please, please, when you are really at the moment in your life when you are passed the joint and you really want to try it,’ I said, ‘Please do me the honour of coming to me when you are ready, and you really feel you are ready,’” Depp continued.

“‘I don’t want your first experience to be with people you don’t know, taking things you don’t know, that you don’t trust.’ It’s a safety issue, it’s a father worried about his daughter in this kind of situation, when she came and said, ‘We are ready.’”

Depp added that he wanted his child to be honest with him. He doidn’t want Lily-Rose to go elsewhere and hide things from him. Also, he wanted it to be a “pleasant experience as possible.”

Furthermore, he didn’t want his 13-year-old child to go into some sort of paranoid tailspin. “I knew the marijuana I had myself, that I smoked myself, is trustworthy and good quality,” Depp added.

“If this is wrong in your eyes, I appreciate what you think but I was raising a daughter and I was being a responsible parent so far as I’m concerned,” Depp told barrister Sasha Wass QC.

Meanwhile, in his previous court filing, Depp admitted that he occasionally took drugs with his ex-wife Amber Heard. However, those “were not common occurrences,” according to him.

He also denied the allegations that he deliberately withheld evidence about his drug use from his case against The Sun. The actor clarified that he has been “open about [his] challenges with alcoholism and addiction throughout my life.”