"In truth, I'm rather a shy person," helium said. "That's 1 of the large things astir Britain, and particularly Somerset. I tin conscionable beryllium me—and that's nice." 

Reflecting connected each of his properties, Depp noted that his homes each service a purpose.

"I conscionable emotion places with character. I person assorted houses successful assorted places and they each mean thing peculiar to me," helium said. "I don't person them conscionable to accidental I ain them, I person them for usage and due to the fact that they are a spot special."

Per Metro, Depp purchased the £13 cardinal property, which features 12 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms, successful 2014.

That aforesaid year, the histrion got engaged to Amber Heard aft gathering her connected the acceptable of their 2011 film The Rum Diary. Heard aboriginal filed for divorce from Depp successful 2016.

In 2019, Depp filed a multi-million-dollar suit against his ex-wife, aft she wrote a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post, wherever she referred to herself a "public fig representing home abuse."

Although the nonfiction ne'er mentioned Depp by name, his attorneys antecedently said successful tribunal documents that the published portion "depends connected the cardinal premise that Ms. Heard was a home maltreatment unfortunate and that Mr. Depp perpetrated home unit against her," and that she allegedly "concocted the communicative successful hopes of generating affirmative publicity and to beforehand her career."

Heard, who filed a $100 cardinal countersuit against her ex successful 2020, and Depp went to proceedings implicit the substance successful Virginia successful 2022. After implicit six weeks of trial, a assemblage recovered Heard liable of defaming Depp in the 2018 op-ed.

Depp was awarded $10 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $5 cardinal successful punitive damages. The punitive damages were aboriginal reduced to the state's statutory headdress of $350,000. 

In December of that year, Heard, who originally filed to appeal the verdict, announced that she "made a precise hard decision" to settee the defamation case.

"I defended my information and successful doing truthful my beingness arsenic I knew it was destroyed," Heard wrote connected Instagram astatine the time. "I marque this determination having mislaid religion successful the American ineligible system, wherever my unprotected grounds served arsenic amusement and societal media fodder."

In effect to her prime to settle, Depp's squad issued a statement: "We are pleased to formally adjacent the doorway connected this achy section for Mr. Depp, who made wide passim this process that his precedence was astir bringing the information to light."