Jennifer Grey and Johnny Depp’s Relationship Timeline: From Whirlwind Romance to His Amber Heard Trial

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Jennifer Grey and Johnny Depp's Relationship Timeline: From Whirlwind Romance to His Amber Heard Trial

As Johnny Depp’s personal life continues to make new headlines, his past is no different. Jennifer Grey shared candid details about her whirlwind romance with the Pirates of the Caribbean star in her memoir, Out of the Corner, which was released in May 2022. The book came out amid Depp’s defamation trial with his ex-wife Amber Heard. “I will say that I haven’t watched any of it. I don’t even know how to. I don’t even know how to get Court TV. I don’t even know where it would be,” the Dirty Dancing star said on The Tamron Hall Show. “But from clips or things that I’ve come across, I don’t recognize the person. It’s nothing to do with anything that I’ve ever experienced, and it makes me sad.” She added: “I don’t understand what’s going on, and I just want everyone to be OK.” Depp and Heard, who were married from 2015 to 2017, have both accused each other of domestic violence. The actor is suing his former spouse for $50 million, claiming Heard’s 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post about an unnamed partner’s alleged domestic abuse defamed him and affected his career. Prior to his relationship with the Aquaman actress, Depp was in a series of high-profile relationships. He was engaged to Grey in 1989. [jwplayer cib6wbYT-zhNYySv2] "There was some heat. It was a f—king bonfire,” Grey told People of their romance. “It was literally like, ‘Are you f—king kidding me? Are you f—king kidding me? I've never seen a guy like this.’ And energetically, what it was like being with him, it was like, ‘Oh, I'm being totally, totally compensated for the s—t I just went through.’” The twosome got engaged within two weeks of meeting each other, but their relationship didn’t last long. He moved on with her “darling neighbor” — Winona Ryder — Grey recalled in the book. The Ferris Bueller’s Day Off actress called the situation the “classic nightmare of feeling replaced,” referring to Depp and Ryder as a “bizarre, virtually seamless changing of the guards” with “the added fun of the blow-by-blow press coverage of what would become one of the most beloved celebrity couplings of the 90s.” Depp and Ryder called it quits in 1993 and he ultimately welcomed two children — daughter Lily-Rose Depp and son Jack Depp — with Vanessa Paradis before his tumultuous relationship with Heard. Grey, meanwhile, announced her split from Clark Gregg in 2020 after nearly 20 years of marriage. They share daughter Stella. Scroll through for more on Depp and Grey:

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1989

The duo met on a blind date after Grey’s agent set them up because Depp had a “massive crush” on the Dirty Dancing actress.

“We ate, talked, drank Jack Daniel’s, laughed our asses off, took cigarette breaks midcourse. He was so ridiculously beautiful. And surprisingly open, funny, quirky and sweet,” Grey wrote in her book about the early days of their romance.

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1989

Depp proposed to Grey after just two weeks of dating. They also adopted a Pekingese-poodle puppy named Lulu together.

“She was our practice baby and someone to keep me company when Johnny was out of town,” Grey wrote. “Johnny was commuting every week back and forth from Vancouver.”

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1989

“He’d started missing his flights home to LA having overslept or, when he did come home, he’d be crazy jealous and paranoid about what I’d been up to while he was gone,” Grey wrote about the downfall of their relationship. “I attributed his ill temper and unhappiness to him feeling miserable and powerless to get off [the TV series] 21 Jump Street.”

Grey called off their engagement shortly before her 29th birthday, she wrote, citing Depp’s “self-imposed streak of impulsive, destructive decision-making.”

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2022

Grey’s book was released amid Depp’s defamation trial with Heard. “[He was] funny and sweet and just so charming and quirky and weird and self-effacing and just so unique and gorgeous, and he was obsessed with me and romantic,” she told Extra about Depp while promoting the book.

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2022

“I haven't known him for 30 years. I haven’t talked to him. I haven’t seen him,” Grey told Extra when asked about the trial. “The whole thing makes me insanely sad for everybody involved. These are people who are damaged and continuing to damage each other. It’s sad. I don’t have an opinion, except it breaks my heart… I just knew him in a very different time.”

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May 2022

“I was engaged to Matthew Broderick and Johnny Depp in the same month,” Grey said on The Drew Barrymore Show. “It was really a sign that there was trouble afoot on my part. I mean honestly, I just thought it was God rescuing me from one bad situation and just lovingly plopping me into a Johnny Depp souffle. You have to understand, Johnny Depp, 1989 Johnny Depp [was] so beautiful, you’ve never seen a more beautiful … it’s almost inhuman.”