(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Johnny Depp felt "tortured" hearing his parents argue as a child, so hoped they'd break up.
The actor's mother and father Betty Sue Wells and John Christopher Depp Sr. divorced when he was 15. He felt a sense of relief when they eventually parted ways as he knew it was best for him and his three siblings.
"I recall hearing my parents argue and thinking, Come on, this is torture. Just split!' They stuck it out until I was 15, but I'd seen it coming for years. When they finally did divorce, I thought, OK, this is the right thing,'" he remembered.
"My mom got ill after my father left, so my attention was taken up in making sure she was OK. I didn't have the time until later to mourn that loss of a sense of family, however unhappy."
Johnny retreated into music to help him get over the change in his personal life. He had previously persuaded his mother to buy him a guitar for $25 dollars, which he then studiously practiced in his bedroom.
"I stole a chord book from a store - I slipped it down my trousers - and then I locked myself in my room, played the guitar and didn't come out for years," he laughed to British newspaper The Daily Mail.
Johnny always wanted to be in a band, but eventually found his way into acting. It's something he's thankful for, otherwise he may never have met his long-term partner Vanessa Paradis.
They first saw each other while he was shooting The Ninth Gate in 1998, and he immediately knew they'd be together.
"You have this feeling - I can't really explain what it was, but I had it when I met her. I saw her across a room and thought, What's happening to me?'" he recalled.
The couple have two kids together now and spend most of their time living in a secluded area of France.
Although Johnny loves making movies, his real passion is spending time with his loved ones.
"Our family is not conventional - it's sort of symmetrical and asymmetrical and poetic and funny," he said.
"[Vanessa] and I have been together for nearly 14 years, and, well, I can hardly believe it. It only seems like yesterday that we met." (C) Cover Media