Alice Cooper, 75, mentioned he didn’t pay any consideration to Johnny Depp’s defamation trial with Amber Heard that was once televised are living in Virginia future they have been on excursion with the Hollywood Vampires.
The rock legend instructed Vulture that he “never watched a moment of” the trial that ended on June 1, 2022, with a verdict in bias of Depp, 60, who was once awarded $1 million in damages from Heard, 37. The previous couple settled their case and dropped their appeals then.
“Not at all. If you talk to Johnny about it, it was something that happened,” Cooper mentioned, when requested if he felt any “hesitancy” to excursion with Depp.
“He was just like, ‘Yeah, yeah, what’s the next song?’ For Johnny, it was one of those things where you can’t say it got blown out of proportion, but I don’t know why they would televise the proceedings, right?” Cooper persevered. “It’s because of the fame of both people.”
The 75-year-old mentioned he by no means introduced up the trial future on excursion.
“I don’t think it was ever mentioned on the tour because nobody cared. I never watched a moment of the trials,” he mentioned.
“It was so blown out of proportion. It was such a Hollywood thing.”
“I knew Johnny was gonna win because how many people have other exes literally on their side testifying for him? That never happens,” Cooper added.
“I turned it right off and said, ‘Well, you know, Johnny will weather this storm and when he’s onstage, he’s our guitar player.’ ”
Depp spent the summer time traveling with the Hollywood Vampires, which incorporates him, Cooper, Joe Perry, and Tommy Henriksen.
In step with PEOPLE in June Depp celebrated his birthday along with his bandmates in Istanbul, Turkey, the place they’d a gig.
“There was no big grand party. No blast off. He celebrated in Istanbul on his birthday. He had a dinner with his bandmates,” the insider mentioned on the age.
“It was an intimate dinner in Istanbul, where they were playing.”
Insiders confirmed that Depp was “really prioritizing his health in this phase of his life” after he broke his ankle in May, which caused Hollywood Vampires to postpone three shows to the end of July.
“He’s 60. He’s on tour. He’s directing a movie. He can’t do what he was doing at 20 years old,” the insider quoted to PEOPLE in June.
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“He’s taking care of himself. Everything in moderation.”
The era ahead of Depp’s birthday, the band posted a video on Instagram of enthusiasts at Bucharest’s Romexpo enviornment in Romania making a song “Happy Birthday” to Depp later Cooper inspired them.
Hollywood Vampires completed their summer time excursion, which had performances in Europe and the U.S., with a display in Bethel, Fresh York, on July 30.
