John Waters has defended Johnny Depp against allegations of domestic assault by his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The director, who worked with Depp on 1990 romantic comedy film Cry-Baby, brought up the actor while discussing his views on “cancel culture” among Hollywood stars.
Waters said: “There are people I would like to cancel, but at the same time I’m saying it humorously.
I’m not going to go through each person who’s been cancelled and say what I think, but I never saw Johnny Depp act negatively to a woman in my entire life – and I did drugs and got drunk with him.”
“It can be seen as an event in history that lasted for however long it lasted, this cancel culture, this instant rush to judgment based on what essentially amounts to polluted air,” Depp said.
“It’s so far out of hand now that I can promise you that no one is safe. Not one of you. No one out that door. No one is safe.”