Did you know Jennifer Grey described her brief relationship with Johnny Depp as a "bonfire"?
Curious to know what else the actress had to say about the Pirates of the Caribbean
star?
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Jennifer Grey became a household name through her role as Frances "Baby" Houseman, the star
of Dirty Dancing.
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
C'mon."
The coming-of-age film showed Grey as an awkward high schooler who learns about love, loyalty,
and choreography during a 1963 summer at a Catskills resort.
Offscreen, however, Grey didn't exactly resemble her innocent character.
Her new book, Out of the Corner: A Memoir, is a no holds barred look at her life, loves,
and journey to find herself — a journey very different from Baby's.
As Grey explains in an exclusive interview with People, growing up as the daughter of
Cabaret star Joel Grey and actress Jo Wilder gave her access to the glamorous New York
party scene of the '70s.
At 16, rebelling against her parents' good girl expectations, Grey was hanging out at
hot spots like Studio 54 and the Andy Warhol-owned The Factory.
She also felt pressured to get a nose job, which she was told would make her more marketable
as an actress.
Instead, she became unrecognizable even to fans.
Unlike Baby, who discovers love for the first time with dance instructor Johnny, played
by the late Patrick Swayze, Grey has a colorful dating history, starting with an older boyfriend
in high school.
Grey told People:
"I never dated a teenager in my life."
However, one of her past boyfriends was a very famous Johnny — and Grey has some choice
words to say about him.
Jennifer Grey is just as candid about her past romantic history as she is about other
areas of her life.
For a time, she had a relationship with her Ferris Bueller's Day Off costar Matthew Broderick.
Grey told People,
"I learned so many things about myself.
[H]e was just this genius, smart, funny, cute."
Grey was also involved with Johnny Depp, a short but passionate romance that she describes
as a "bonfire."
Grey told People:
"It was literally like, 'Are you [...] 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 [stuff] I just went through.'"
The two were reportedly even engaged, according to ET Online, but they broke up before they
had a chance to exchange vows.
Surprisingly, Grey not only never dated her Dirty Dancing costar Patrick Swayze, but the
two didn't get along well offscreen.
"I knew that I had no chemistry with him.
And I knew that I didn't really feel like he was my cup of tea."
Still, she said, that tension translated into onscreen chemistry.
As of April 2022, Grey is divorced and in what she calls "the best half" of her life.
As she told People,
"I just wanna feel who I am now."
While Jennifer Grey may be happily single and living her best life, Johnny Depp is currently
in the midst of a heavily publicized defamation trial with his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard.
Depp is trying to clear his name after accusations of domestic abuse were brought against Depp
from Heard in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.
In the story, Heard claimed that she had become a figure of domestic abuse after her relationship
with the actor.
Now, Depp is trying to prove that Heard's words negatively impacted his acting career.
In 2020, Depp went through a similar trial against the U.K. tabloid, The Sun, after they
reported the actor was a, quote, "wife-beater."
At the time, two of Depp's exes, Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, came to his defense.
Ryder said in her witness statement to the court,
"The idea that he is an incredibly violent person is the farthest thing from the Johnny
I knew and loved.
[...] I cannot wrap my head around these accusations."
Paradis had similar sentiments in her statement to the court, saying,
"Through all these years I've known Johnny to be a kind, attentive, generous and non-violent
person and father."
While Grey mentioned her past relationship with Depp in her new memoir, the actress has
not said anything about Depp's current trial.
It could be that while their relationship was passionate, Grey doesn't feel comfortable
commenting on the situation as opposed to Ryder and Paradis, who were both in long term
relationships with him.
Either way, it'll be interesting to read more about Grey and Depp's relationship in her
book.
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