Soiled Dancing star Jennifer Grey is understood not just for her starring position within the hit Eighties film but in addition for her high-profile celeb relationships. One relationship that gained a lot of consideration was her coupling with Johnny Depp. Though the pair was scorching and heavy, Grey says the Pirates of the Caribbean actor was a “rebound.” Right here’s what she revealed.
Jennifer Grey tried to recover from Matthew Broderick with Johnny Depp
Grey and Depp became an item shortly after she ended her engagement with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off star Matthew Broderick. She says Depp helped take away the ache she was feeling after her relationship with Broderick fell aside. For her, this relationship made up for all of the unfavorable issues she says she skilled.
Grey says this relationship was marked by fiery ardour. She was consumed by all of the feelings that washed over her when she was with Depp.
“There was some heat,” Grey tells People. “It was a f***ing bonfire. It was literally like, ‘Are you f***ing kidding me? Are you f***ing kidding me? I’ve never seen a guy like this. And energetically, what it was like being with him, it was like, ‘Oh, I’m being totally, totally compensated for the s*** I just went through.”
Grey was so taken by Depp that she accepted his marriage proposal after simply two weeks of relationship (she later ended their relationship with a be aware on the mattress). “I was engaged to Matthew Broderick and Johnny Depp in the same month,” she tells Drew Barrymore throughout an interview. “It was really a sign that there was trouble afoot on my part,” says Grey. “Honestly, I just thought it was God rescuing me from one bad situation and just lovingly plopping me into a Johnny Depp souffle.”
Jennifer Grey describes Johnny Depp as a ‘rebound’ relationship
Though Grey says Depp was a “rebound,” she doesn’t appear to have regrets concerning the time they spent collectively. She tells Good Morning America she had a nice time getting over Broderick whereas she was with Depp.
“I haven’t seen him for 30 years, but I will say he was a rebound relationship for me,” says Grey. “And if you’re looking for a rebound relationship, the 1989 Johnny Depp was [Grey gives the ‘chef’s kiss’ gesture]. That was the way to go. It just wiped out all of my pain like an Etch a Sketch. Oh! Matthew who?” Grey jokes.
Jennifer Grey attended assist group conferences after the Johnny Depp breakup
Grey says she tried to heal from her breakup with Johnny Depp by attending assist group conferences for individuals who had been having relationship hassle “often, but not always” with alcoholics. She says a good friend of hers who had simply ended her marriage invited her to conferences after seeing how a lot ache she was in.
These conferences confirmed Grey that she wanted to focus extra on herself than the individual she was in a relationship with. She additionally realized she felt “powerless” and that her life had gotten to a level the place it felt “unmanageable.” Grey says this group helped her cope with the grief she had saved up from her breakups with Broderick and Depp and from another life traumas.
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