He’s not silent anymore: Johnny Depp is using his latest album to sing out about winning his controversial libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, according to a report.
“I think you’ve said enough for one Mother’s Day,” he sings on the record he made with legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck, which will be released Friday, reported the Sunday Times in London.
Depp wrote two songs on the album, entitled “18”, featuring Beck, the former Yardbirds guitarist. The tunes seem to reveal how Depp may have felt during the grueling weeklong process that exposed the couple’s troubled married life to the world.
“You sit there like a dog with a seven-year-old itch,” he sings on a song called “Sad Motherf-in’ Parade,” according to the Times.
“If I had a dime, it wouldn’t reach your hand,” he says in another line of the song.
Depp, 59, joined Beck, 76, on a series of tour dates across the UK in June. Their album is named after the youthful age the couple say they feel when they play music, the paper reported.
After Depp’s two songs, the album’s remaining tracks are covers, including “Caroline, No” by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and “Venus and Furs” by Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground, according to The Times.
Outside of his prolific acting career, Depp has a long history of playing music. He recently announced that he will be touring next summer with his rock supergroup ‘Hollywood Vampires’, which consists of Depp, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper and Tommy Henriksen.
Depp won last month in his case against 36-year-old Heard, whom he is suing for defamation after she wrote a 2018 Washington Post piece alleging an unnamed partner had been abused.
After a trial that was televised nationally, a seven-member jury awarded Depp $10 million in damages and $5 million in punitive damages — although Virginia law limits punitive damages to $350,000.
Heard was awarded $2 million in her counter-charge against her ex-husband.