Jennifer Grey and Johnny Depp went on a pseudo-blind date in 1989 after Depp told Grey’s agent that he had a giant crush on her. Grey describes her relationship with Depp in her 2022 memoir, “Out of the Corner,” writing that at first, everything between them was incredible. Per Us Weekly, she says their first date was filled with laughter, and described Depp as “open, funny, quirky, and sweet.”
Grey and Depp got engaged only two weeks after they began their relationship, quickly adopting a dog together. Grey explains that Depp’s work schedule had him in and out of Canada a lot at the time. She writes that the dog filled a void that was felt, explaining, “She was our practice baby and someone to keep me company when Johnny was out of town.”
Things between the two shifted pretty quickly, and Grey reveals that soon Depp’s behavior changed. She noted that Depp “had begun more and more regularly to be getting into trouble: [getting into] fights in bars, skirmishes with cops.” At first, she thought it was due to work problems, but in her book Grey describes patterns of behavior that other exes of Depp’s have described, too. She says, “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” (via Us Weekly).