Johnny Depp taught Christina Ricci what being gay was after witnessing homophobia when she was nine

Johnny Depp explained homosexuality to a young Christina Ricci (Picture: Getty.REX)
Johnny Depp defined homosexuality to a younger Christina Ricci (Image: Getty.REX)

Christina Ricci has revealed it was Johnny Depp who defined to her what homosexuality was after they starred in a film collectively. 

The actress, now 42, was starring alongside Johnny, 59, and his then-girlfriend Winona Ryder, 50, in Mermaids in 1990 when she was simply 9 when an on-set battle sparked her curiosity. 

Christina revealed to Sirius XM’s Andy Cohen: ‘There was one thing happening on set and somebody was not being good to another person. They usually have been like, “Oh, effectively, he could be homophobic.”

‘After which I used to be like, “Effectively, I don’t perceive what that's.: And I used to be in Winona’s trailer and she or he was like, “I don’t understand how [to explain].”

‘So she put me on the telephone with Johnny, and Johnny defined it to me!’

Christina revealed that Johnny gave her a matter of reality rationalization, including: ‘He was like, “It’s when a person desires to have intercourse with a person and when a girl desires to have intercourse with a girl.” And I used to be like, “Ah, okay!”’

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Winona Ryder (proper) handed Christina’s (left) question on to Johnny (Image: Orion/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

Christina and Johnny starred collectively a number of instances through the years (Image: LUCY NICHOLSON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

Andy joked that Christina ought to have requested her onscreen mom Cher, who's a homosexual icon, to clarify what homosexuality was, to which she replied: ‘I do know, we must always’ve run proper over [to her trailer]!’

The pair labored collectively once more nearly a decade later in Sleepy Hole the place Christina was paired with Johnny for her first ever intercourse scene, which she discovered even stranger as she considered him as a ‘brother’.

She defined: ‘Okay. So we all know sufficient about one another to snigger at it. He stated it was “like we have been rooting round collectively like pigs”. 

‘However the resolution was made early on that Johnny and I might by no means be unclothed as a result of in gypsy tradition ladies are forbidden to be nude.’

Johnny and Christina additionally went on to work collectively on different hit movies together with 1998’s Concern and Loathing in Las Vegas in addition to 2000’s The Man Who Cried. 

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